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Sue - sadly, we must both despair (together with, no doubt, at minimum, 405 others we now know of !).
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29 May 2018 09:00 AM
This article doesn't make clear just who, exactly, has been fined. If [as I assume] it's the Landlords/Agents (for not undertaking checks, irrespective of the Tenant's status), then it just goes to show how despicable this Legislation is in, effectively, merely 'criminalising' those (as 'soft' targets) unilaterally imposed upon to undertake a responsibility that more fittingly should be undertaken by Immigration Officers. I wonder how many Immigration Officers get fined each year for missing an 'illegal' through their own inadequate checks ? Moreover, for a scheme that costs £4.7m to administer, it is clearly an absurdity that it managed to raise a paltry £265k. If these iniquitous fines are indeed applied to Landlords/Agents ... I also wonder just what percentage of those, heinous, 'missed' checks resulted in a person without a 'Right to Rent' being indicted ? In the [unlikely] event that the figure refers to Tenant Applicants reported to the authorities consequential of those checks, then it seems to be a significantly small number, when considered as a percentage of 'illegals' [undocumented migrants] in the country. Figures are impossible to come by, but the Home Office readily admits to about 150,000 to 250,000 per year not complying with their Visa requirements and continue to live in Britain beyond the time formally permitted ... and anywhere from 650,000 to one million undocumented migrants living in the UK under the radar. What utter madness this makes these 405 fines !
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29 May 2018 08:26 AM
... enforcing payment might be another thing altogether ?
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27 February 2018 10:07 AM
It's no real surprise - as Shelter has been, on the one hand, lobbying against individual Landlords to undermine the PRS (attacking High Street Letting Agents, as one line of its strategy), whilst, on the other, has been implicitly supporting the move toward ultimate Corporate control of the sector's property holdings, by way of Build-to-Rent initiatives in particular. Shelter's puppet-masters would feel somewhat hamstrung, if the Labour party did somehow get elected after a few years of these Corporates' mega-investment into the market and Rent Controls are applied, as Corbyn promises. What an irony that would be !!
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29 September 2017 09:07 AM
@John Peters - Whilst it might be fair to suggest that a small number of Agents take advantage of applying higher than could be reasoned charges, the VAST MAJORITY do not. Moreover, and more importantly, prospective Tenants do not have any obligation to use such 'over-priced' Agents (no different to you getting quotes from any number of contractors - and using your judgement to select which one suits you). What this paradigm shift in policy will actually do is take away a significant number of both good Agents and good Landlords from a marketplace that currently finds its own equilibrium - even a cap on fees could be arguably palatable to all parties (although, I don't see any customer caps placed on, for example, Banks' mortgage loan fees ... and/or any other industries for that matter) ... so it is difficult to see what a complete Government-imposed prohibition of such charges does within the context of the UK's economic principles. Since this proposed ban is not a stand-alone move, all other attacks on the PRS have to be seen in the wider picture - and, thus, the realisation of a desire to destroy the sector is an obvious unavoidable conclusion. In the short term (as Mark, above, points out) losing property quicker than the "Build-to-Rent" developers will be able to re-supply [thus creating rental increases - even if just for a few transitional years ?], and eventually bringing to Tenants a blandly homogenised version of high-density-only rental accommodation, lacking the variances currently enjoyed from a variety of private Landlords' differing circumstances. And if anyone could try to convince me that this will remove 'rogue' Landlords from the horizon ... I suggest they take a critical look at just how much exploitation goes on by the Corporates who now have virtual monopolies in certain service/retail sectors. You are certainly right about it being a conspiracy - the whole farce is an appalling example of antidemocratic social liberalism at its worst - in reality, being an underhand capitalistic con-trick, designed to enrich the few as opposed to allowing a truly mixed economy to thrive as it has been for a number of recent years. Few outside the industry will mourn the loss of Estate Agents' jobs - but, irrespective of such unfounded prejudices, my belief is that everyone should be able to work as they wish in a free environment, merely with sensibly workable legal constraints preventing crime.
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08 September 2017 03:45 AM
Very few people seem to have gathered that this intended 'ban' has little/nothing to do with "helping tenants" and/or certainly not to make the market "more competitive". It's simply one part of a shadow agenda to destroy the PRS, in favour of corporatised developers underpinned by taxpayer subsidy. This is all about shifting the modest rewards of property ownership from the middle classes into the hands of big business - an ideal induced by the Insurers (who have seen a loss to their Pension contributions over the rise of 'Buy-to-let'), started by George Osborne, propped up by a smear campaign spearheaded by the likes of Shelter, and engineered via a manipulated Media. 'Consultation' periods, 'Parliamentary Debates', etc are irrelevant window-dressing that will make not a jot of difference to the outcome. And for anyone who still naively believes Government is based upon principles of logic, commonsense and/or decency (and/or to benefit the hard-working taxpayer) ... think again - we are but tax-slaves to a regime of control and exploitation. No politician could care less about small business and those it employs ... and a moribund lettings industry would be just another in the long line of businesses decimated by Corporate greed and the Government Mandarins with which they consort who enable such changes.
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07 September 2017 10:51 AM
I'm of the view that there may be darker forces afoot in these high-handed efforts by Shelter. It's perhaps no coincidence that the - controversially appointed - Sir Derek Myers (Chair of the Board of Trustees) is a friend of the likes of George Osborne and, under the guise of the 'Third Sector' principles, may well be (as was Osborne, when in office) attempting to severely undermine the private-landlord, in favour of corporate-built rental homes. He also has a number of acquaintances amongst major property developers. Just a couple of reasons we should perhaps look deeper into Shelter's current hate regime. This might benefit from some investigative journalism ?
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18 October 2016 17:03 PM
I'm more than surprised to see Letting Agent Today falling into the trap of 'advertising' this insidious game. For those uninformed about the background to the Machiavellian construct, you would be well advised to read some of the YouTube exposes about it. This one's a good start; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdPkrIz2gY
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