Section 21 to be banned in the UK
The Government has announced its intention to scrap Section 21 notices for eviction in an effort to offer tenants more long-term security. At the moment, Section 21 notices enable landlords to evict...
View ArticleA ‘sorry’ state of affairs – tenant apologises to landlord
It’s a topic I have spoken about many times before, but sadly it doesn’t appear to be improving. Councils are still being forced to respond to Britain’s housing crisis by telling tenants who have...
View ArticleMake Sure You Insure What’s Behind the Door – Shocking episode of Nightmare...
I think viewers of this week’s episode of ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’ will find it hard to believe that the damage to a property in Cardiff was caused by just one person. Of course, the show...
View ArticleScrapping Section 21 will trigger a rise in homelessness
Section 21: Leading tenant eviction company, Landlord Action, says that as many as 50% of Section 21 cases they handle are as a result of tenants wanting to be re-housed by the council. They believe...
View ArticleLandlord Action have been shortlisted for The National LIS Awards 2019
Organiser: The National Landlord Investment Show Categories: Best Landlord Legal Services Provider Date: 21st November 2019 Vote for us! We are delighted to announce that Landlord Action have been...
View ArticleLandlords no more excuses
As I write this blog, I’m on a train down to Devon to do a talk at the ARLA Propertymark Devon Regional Meeting. One of the many hats I wear in my role as Director / Brand Ambassador for Hamilton...
View ArticleA ‘Look Back’ and ‘Look On’ at Landlord Liabilities
Every December I write a roundup which summarises the year gone by; what changes have impacted landlords and what changes we can expect from the year ahead. Perhaps I should just say “Brexit” as a...
View ArticleJoin the petition to regulate the ‘property education’ market
On Monday night, I watched BBC Inside Out London which, following the tragic death of Danny Butcher who took his own life, has been investigating London based company, Property Investors. The company...
View Article“I’m the landlord, I can do what I want, when I want”
I recently read the shocking story about Mr Valentine-Brown who was murdered by his landlady, her partner and two accomplices when they decided they would take the eviction process into their own...
View ArticleEnforcement – a thankless task
The other week, I had the opportunity to shadow the Harrow Council Housing Enforcement Officers, who feature with me on for Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’. Whilst my day to day job...
View Article‘No one wants to see tenants forced out of their home due to loss of income...
Eviction specialist Paul Shamplina says the government’s recent eviction and mortgage holiday measures have given landlords no option but to hunker down and work with tenants. Paul Shamplina, the UK’s...
View ArticleEntering the unknown for Landlords
Where do I start? Every industry is affected by Covid-19 and the complete shutdown of business. We are in unchartered waters and all just trying our best to adapt to this new, hopefully temporary,...
View Article‘Locked down, but not locked out’
My last blog for LandlordZone was on 30th March, just after the country went into lockdown. Here we are, now entering week eight. Much like everybody else, I was in shock for the first ten days...
View ArticleShamplina interviews: Nigel Lewis, the man behind the pen at LandlordZONE
For the past six months journalist Nigel Lewis has been penning the news articles for LandlordZONE and doing his best to fill the seat of Tom Entwistle. Here Landlord Action’s Paul Shamplina finds out...
View Article2020: You just could not make it up!
Everything changed on the 16th March 2020, a date that will be forever famous for all the wrong reasons, when our first lockdown came in. The country was in shock, but the property market showed how...
View Article‘The landlord trap is never ending’
Following the announcement of another national lockdown, founder of Landlord Action, Paul Shamplina, says there is no end in sight for desperate landlords and there must now be government support....
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As the regulations mount up, should landlords self-manage or not?
When it comes to owning a buy-to let property, the decision as to whether to use an agent or not is a big one. It is estimated that more than half of landlords self-manage their rental properties,...
View ArticlePaul Shamplina: ‘Possession cases will rise in 2022’
So, we ended 2021 after twenty-one months since the first Covid lockdown with the new variant, Omicron, spreading fast, and with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland putting in stricter measures and...
View ArticleOPINION: What abolishing Section 21 evictions will mean for landlords
The long-awaited Government White Paper, ‘A Fairer Private Rented Sector’, has finally been released which, amongst other significant changes to the sector, confirms the abolition of Section 21 and...
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BLOG: This is what many more landlords will be competing with in cities soon
A couple of weeks ago I was invited by the owners of a build-to-rent development in Wembley to see at first-hand what this emerging kind of rental property looks like – in this case a 440-unit just...
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