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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

BBC report on Newham's mandatory licensing

In its first year, the council reported the scheme had lead to 134 landlords being prosecuted.


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2 comments:

Your Friend Kevin said...

Serves them damn well right.
Any decent Landlord would not allow his/her property to become such a squalor pit.
Instead of touting the "kick Me" badge we should all be aspiring to be professional in all aspects of Land-lording, then we wouldn't need to have licencing in the first place.

Paul said...

The issue is that the demand is too high, and there are people out there just trying to make a fast buck squeezing as many people as possible into a house.

I do get the idea of having a landlord register, so that various Government agencies can check that landlords are providing clean, safe accommodation, paying taxes, etc.
If Newham's mininum annual fee of £500 was applied in the counties my properties are located, I'd be getting "taxed" about 10% of the rental income, assuming no voids.
What happens to the fine money generated from prosecutions?
But it's a whole case of nothing being joined up (register with HMRC, register with a deposit service, get a licence) and it's the good honest landlords that end up paying.