Eviction instructions up 43% versus pre-pandemic says Landlord Action
Landlord Action, one of the UK’s best-known eviction and housing law specialists, has seen a 43 percent rise in instructions from landlords and letting agents between 1 June 2021, when the eviction ban ended, and 1 September 2021, versus the same period in 2019,...
Shelter blasts landlords and agents over ‘illegal behaviour’
Shelter has launched a broadside against landlords and letting agents, using research among 3,500 private renters to accuse both groups of illegal behaviour Of those polled, the lobbying organisation says 45% report illegal behaviour by their landlord or letting...
County Courts will not cope with ‘eviction avalanche’
In 2020, as part of government restrictions to protect tenants during the pandemic, the number of residential evictions fell by an estimated 20,000 (74%). According to eviction and housing law specialists Landlord Action, County Courts are facing an ‘eviction...
Brand new series of ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’ starts this week
The long-awaited new series of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’ launches on Wednesday 17 February at 8pm. This 10-part series, filmed prior to COVID-19 restrictions, follows the frontline work of letting agents, eviction specialists and lawyers helping...
