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UK Landlord magazine

January 2007: contents

Special Feature
Finding a Tenant
• Find a tenant
• Advertising your property to let
• Dealing with Lettings Agents
• Renting out your property
• Is your property safe to rent?
• Tenant referencing
• Are you fully protected?
• Residential Letting Agreements

Editorial

News

• NLA participates in Housing and Disability Study
• NLA helps landlords abroad
• Keep Cardiff Tidy

Message from the Chairman

• NLA to run new Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme
• How the new Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme will work in practice

Buying & Selling

• HIPs trial areas expanded
• Buy-to-share mortgages

Finding Tenants & Reducing Costs

• Reducing running costs
• Government fails to regulate lettings agents
• Many housing associations not on top of IT systems
• Air source heating system

Landlord & Tenant Relations

• New online service for claiming possession
• Anti-social tenant jailed
• Clarification on rough sleepers
• Meeting the housing needs of disabled people

Complying with Property Laws

• Residential Property Tribunal issues first Housing Act judgement

Maintenance and Repairs

• New gas safety initiative

Financial & Tax Matters

• A step in the REITs direction?

Public Affairs

• Legislative programme for 2007
• NLA analysis: Pre-Budget Report 2006

Book Reviews

• Renting and Letting
• Alternative Construction

Rugg Review:
The Independent Review of the Private Rented Sector has been published. See how it affects you.

What's new?
• Government Minister: "No sense over-burdening good landlords with further regulation"
• NLA statement: Barry Markham and Tony Richard
• NLA 2008 Annual Report published
• Scottish government not delivering for landlords
• 'Reluctant landlords' are major risk to rental market
• Latest 'UK Landlord' magazine now online
• NLA responds to OFT survey on sale and rent back