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23 Nov 2014, 12:43 am by Tessa Shepperson
 Read it all here …   Further reading Ben writes in the Guardian about the right to rent checks and its effect on ethnic minorities Colin Belton on his blog writes more about the Zero hours contracts issue Samir Jeraj writes about the hidden costs of renting in modern Britain Find out about our 2015 Landlord Law Conference in Wales Keep up with the news with me on twitter, Google+ and the Landlord Law Facebook page >> Click here  to get the weekly… [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 11:21 pm by Ben Reeve-Lewis
News from Venezuela Finally in keeping with my foolhardy and unpopular support of my co workers in the face of mass scorn, I’ll rub a bit more dirt into the wound and point you in the direction of a very informative article by Samir Jeraj on the New Internationalist blog about how Venezuala solved it’s own housing crisis through state intervention and……gulp….rent control. [read post]
24 Nov 2013, 3:16 pm by Tessa Shepperson
 Find out here … Wednesday Rented Housing in Brazil Housing Journalist Samir Jeraj turns his eye to Brazil and he takes a look at the housing laws there. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 12:12 am by Samir Jeraj
Housing journalist Samir Jeraj takes a look at housing in Germany We in the UK often like to borrow our policies (good and bad) from other countries. [read post]
22 Oct 2013, 11:16 pm by Samir Jeraj
Housing Journalist Samir Jeraj writes about discrimination in housing Last week, a BBC investigation in a small part of London uncovered racism amongst lettings agents. [read post]
13 Oct 2013, 2:25 am by Tessa Shepperson
Monday Rent control – a retrospective Housing journalist Samir Jeraj looks at the history of rent regulation – and causes a bit of controversy in his conclusions. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 1:02 am by Samir Jeraj
Housing journalist Samir Jeraj looks at the history of rent control 25 Years ago this month, parliament voted to abolish rent-control in private rented housing. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 4:09 am by Tessa Shepperson
Monday Housing and the Local Government Information Unit We start the week with a post from housing journalist Samir Jeraj on a new report out from the LGUI called House Proud, with a bit also about housing in the conferences. [read post]
14 Sep 2013, 12:19 am by Tessa Shepperson
Monday Utilities and tenants rights We start the week with a useful post from Samir Jeraj on utilities where he concludes that – well you will have to read it for yourself, here … Tuesday Can letting agents sue on a clause the landlord crossed out before signing? [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 11:48 pm by Samir Jeraj
Housing journalist Samir Jeraj takes a look at the vexed issue of utilities in shared properties Last time I cast my layman’s eye over the issues of water meters and tenants’ rights. [read post]
25 Aug 2013, 11:41 am by Tessa Shepperson
Samir Jeraj taks a look at tenants rights in this surprisingly tricky area. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 12:08 am by Samir Jeraj
Samir Jeraj considers water meters and tenants’ rights Water meters – checking out the rules Many green-minded and money-conscious tenants look to water meters to help them cut back the costs and their environmental impact. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 12:42 am by Tessa Shepperson
 Some helpful comments, see them here …   Further reading Fascinating thread from the Property Tribes forum on websites landlords can use to do due diligence on properties Guardian article on landlords profiting from Generation Rent Article from Samir Jeraj on housing co-operatives A TDS information sheet on how they approach disputes involving damage and missing items   Keep up with the news with me on twitter, Google+ and the Landlord Law… [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 2:47 am by Samir Jeraj
We are running a live-blog of the the proceedings throughout the day courtesy of Samir Jeraj, a Landlord Law Blog contributor. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 12:12 am by Tessa Shepperson
Part 2 in our short series looking at Property Guardians A few days ago Samir Jeraj wrote about the phenomenon of ‘property guardians’. [read post]
3 Mar 2013, 10:53 pm by Samir Jeraj
Our regular guest blogger, Samir Jeraj starts us off on a short series on property guardians: Over the past couple of years a clutch of feature articles and comment pieces have lauded the concept of Property Guardians. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 11:42 pm by Samir Jeraj
A question asked by our regular guest blogger, Samir Jeraj: A few weeks back I was talking to a friend who works in a housing association. [read post]
1 Dec 2012, 1:20 am by Tessa Shepperson
A piece by a new writer on Landlord Law Blog, journalist Samir Jeraj who writes about the burgeoning tenants movement and two organisations, EPTAG in Edinburgh and Digs in Hackney, London. [read post]