Our guest this month is Eddie Hooker, CEO and founder of Hamilton Fraser Insurance. Although, as well as standard landlord insurance products, the business includes My Deposits, The Property Redress Scheme and Landlord Action. So Eddie has strong views on mediation and is not afraid to express them! The discussion ranged from the mediation aspect […]
Coronavirus and the Courts
In this episode, we speak to Housing Barrister and Deputy District Judge Robert Brown and our main topic of discussion is the courts’ system. There is a lot to talk about! Our discussion ranges over topics such as How the pandemic has changed court procedures from mostly physical attendance at court to telephone and virtual […]
Agents and the lettings market
David Cox is very well known in the lettings industry. For many years he was the CEO of ARLA Propertymark and before then he was the senior policy officer at the National Landlords Association. He is now Legal & Compliance Director at Rightmove, the biggest property portal in the UK and is very well placed […]
Landlords and Build to Rent
Build to rent is fairly well known but it is a surprisingly small part of the overall Private Rented Sector. Our special guest for this episode, Richard Berridge is well known in this sector and we discuss with him various issues such as What is build to rent and how is it different from ‘normal’ […]
2021 – A new year new legislation and new problems for landlords
Our first podcast episode for 2021 is with solicitor David Smith where discuss changes coming and take a look at the new legislation which may be coming down the tracks. Such as the Renters Reform Bill, the new ‘Breathing Space’ legislation and the new Renting Homes (Wales) Bill 2016 – which is already seeing amendments […]
Crisis – not just for Christmas
For our December and Christmas episode, we speak to Chris Hancock who is the head of Best Practice at the housing charity Crisis. We talked about a number of things: The ‘everyone in’ initiative and how it could have been so much better The structural changes that need to take place to eliminate homelessness (which […]