Real Estate & Property Law

Tenancy agreement terms causing problems for local authority
A friend of mine who sits as a Deputy District Judge told me of an interesting case recently. Apparently a local authority tenant had moved out of his rented property, thereby losing his security of tenure and making his tenancy a common law one...

Advance rent = deposit
There is a report of a new tenancy deposit case on the Nearly Legal website. Although this is a County Court decision and therefore cannot bind Judges in future cases, it is interesting, and may be worrying for many landlords...

Two months rent in advance is not the same as a damage deposit
When I wrote about tenancy deposit protection avoidance earlier this year, I did not mention one other option which I understand is being taken up by many landlords ? that of taking no deposit, but two months rent in advance instead of one month...

Q & A
Q I rent an apartment in Manhattan and was subletting a room to the friend of a co-worker. One day, he moved out, with no notice, while I was at work. He still owes me a month's rent and his share of the utilities and other bills we split...

Tenancy Deposit Protection deposits paid before 7 April 2007
I am obliged once again to the Pain Smith blog for drawing my attention to a new County Court case on the Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme regulations.One of the many imponderables of the regulations is whether or not they apply to deposits taken before 7 April 2007, where a new tenancy agreement had been taken after that date...

Agents letting property subject to a re-possession order
There is quite a lot of discussion about tenants evicted unfairly by landlords in retaliation for something that they have done, such as complain about repairs. However there is another type of unfair eviction where tenants do not even get the benefit of the two months notice under section 21 which tenants receive in a retaliatory eviction...

Rent Controlled Apartments
Landlord to pay $10 million settlement after forcing out low income tenants and then selling the buildings for a profit.