Meeting The Welfare Minister
November 7, 2012
Welfare Reform Minister, Lord Freud, spoke at the National Landlords Association conference in the Midlands on 31 October 2012. He was concise, thoughtful, engaging and positive about the contribution of the private rented sector. He outlined the government’s philosophy behind the welfare reforms and said that the mass exodus of landlords and huge population shifts that some had forecast had not materialised.
There was much consternation from landlords, many who spoke felt that the responsibility agenda (tenants receiving direct payments) was utopian. A number of contributors complained […]
Those of us running our property businesses in East London might be forgiven for feeling very frustrated with the recent onslaught of bureaucracy and control freakery. London Borough of Newham has all but introduced compulsory licensing for every privately rented property in the borough. Admittedly it is still undertaking statutory consultation, but this has more than a whiff of the perfunctory about it. Newham’s scheme was unveiled in October 2011 in a fanfare of excitement, seemingly the officials and politicians thought […]