12 August, 2013
12 August, 2013
Issue 320 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
9 August, 2013
New DCLG publication sets out the 'robust powers' that local authorities and landowners now have to deal with unauthorised caravan encampments.
9 August, 2013
Council of Mortgage Lenders data shows 7,700 properties taken into possession by mortgage lenders in second quarter of the year.
8 August, 2013
Results of survey by Shelter Cymru and Citizens Advice Cymru reveal that 'alarming numbers of Welsh adults are struggling to cope financially'.
8 August, 2013
New MoJ statistics for first quarter of 2013/2014 also show landlord possession claims increased by 8 per cent over same period.
7 August, 2013
5 August, 2013
Issue 319 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
2 August, 2013
New statutory instrument provides that the sets of implied terms relating to transit and permanent pitches on local authority gypsy and traveller sites, inserted by the Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment of Schedule 1 and Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2011 in relation to England, are applied in relation to Wales.
2 August, 2013
Survey of 126 services also shows that 4,863 people sought shelter from the cold during the last winter, a quarter of whom had not approached services for help before.
1 August, 2013
Money, to be used to reduce the number of homeless families unlawfully stuck in B&B accommodation, includes funding for a health and financial support service and a long-term private rental scheme.
31 July, 2013
New statutory instrument contains detailed provision for operation of the procedure which bailiffs must follow when taking control of goods and selling them to recover a sum of money.
31 July, 2013
Press release explains provisions of Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 that were laid before parliament yesterday.
31 July, 2013
New Age UK report also finds that nearly 2.8m, or 13 per cent, of those aged 50+ are finding it hard to manage financially.
30 July, 2013
Issue 318 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
26 July, 2013
CIH Scotland guidance looks at how it can be made easier for tenants to pay rent, and how landlords can adapt rent collection arrangements.
25 July, 2013
DCLG has published a summary of responses to the consultation, published in June 2012, on its proposals to allow social landlords to charge higher rents to high earners - it also states that the government intends to take steps to allow higher rents to be charged to tenant households with incomes of over £60,000 per year.
23 July, 2013
In addition to the criteria set out in the Budget 2013, the rules include that borrowers won’t be able to access guaranteed mortgages if their credit history doesn’t meet the FCA ‘impaired credit’ standards, including having a county court judgment over £500 in the past three years.
23 July, 2013
In force from 10 July 2013, the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional, Transitory and Saving Provisions) (Wales) Order 2013 replicates the provisions that came into force in England on 30 April 2011.
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