Landlords - watch our for regulation regulation regulation

Landlords know by now that our current government real mantra is not education education education but REGULATION REGULATION REGULATION.

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If they are not meddling, putting their oar in, getting landlords to fill out more forms such as the section 213 Notice - they are just not happy.

I was reading recently that the government have commissioned several additional pieces of research that could well end up heaping more REGULATION on landlords.

Firstly there is the Private Rental Sector Review commissioned at the start of the year by the Housing Minister Yvette Cooper. She has employed several intellectual bods from the Centre For Housing Policy at York University to do it. What is the betting that these academics will come up with a raft of problems which are no doubt the landlords fault. Their solution. You've guest it - more REGULATION REGULATION REGULATION.


HMOs targeted for more regulation
Unfortunately landlords with Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) are not safe from the governments gaze. They to are being targeted for a study into Houses in Multiple Occupation aimed at "improving the management and conditions of people living in Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)"

You now what that means in plain English. All the problems that occur in all around these properties are the landlords fault - never the tenant or the government. Therefore inevitably what the government will suggest to save us from these problems will inevitably be more REGULATION REGULATION REGULATION.


A nation of 500,000 landlords
Here's a thought. There are approximately 500,000 private landlords. That makes us quite a significant proportion of the adult population - perhaps its time we said NO to more REGULATION.

In the coming weeks Property Hawk will look in more depth at these studies and the potential impact on landlords and the private rental sector generally. We also will be interviewing representatives of the three major political parties to get their views on the sector and what they propose to do for landlords.

Perhaps it's time that a nation of 500,000 landlords stood up to make sure that they were no longer the scape goat of too many misguided politicians who feel its their mission in life to save us from our own actions.