Category: Regulations and Compliance

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Property Industry Updates
Angie Nicholls

Compliance made simple (Part 1)

As property investors and letting agents, we are regularly having conversations with people about compliance. What often comes across is that people find it changeable and confusing. It is changeable, this is true, but it needn’t be confusing. With this in mind, we have put together a series on some of the most common compliance issues, in an attempt to explain them in a way which is succinct and non-confusing. The first in this series is one that the majority of us will have heard of – Gas safety.

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Property Industry Updates
Benedict Nicholls

Compliance – Fire and Furnishings

Every so often, we are going to cover a Regulation or an Act, to share what it means, what it covers, and what you need to do as a landlord. This week, we are turning the spotlight on furnishings because they are so often overlooked.

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Property Industry Updates
Angie Nicholls

Government White Paper June 2022 “A Fairer PRS”

The recent White Paper from the Government, delivered on 16th of June 2022, represents the biggest overhaul of the Private Rented Sector (PRS) in the last three decades. It has been coming for a while and parts of its content have been on our radar since 2019. Some elements have caused quite a stir and there are even parts that have caused division in our own team, in the office, here at KPA HQ.
So, what’s it all about? Let’s take a closer look…

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HMO business guide
Benedict Nicholls

HMO Compliance

If you are a landlord, then your clients are tenants and it makes sense that you would want to know who they are, and what they want and need from a property, so that you can provide it for them and, so that you can phrase your advert accordingly, so that they can clearly see what is on offer and, whether this is a property that will interest them. This sounds really simple, but you would be surprised by how many landlords get this fundamental part of the process wrong.

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Property Management
Benedict Nicholls

Section 21 – What’s the latest?

Probably one of the most talked about subjects, in the private rental sector at the moment, is the future of Section 21, the so-called “no fault eviction…”

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