A solicitor has been struck off by the solicitors disciplinary tribunal after he enabled a £62,000 overpayment on a property. Milan Patel, sole director of ALD Legal Solicitors was instructed by a resident of Saudi Arabia to purchase a UK property on his behalf. According to the judgment, the property was transferred from the seller
A landlord from Nottingham has been fined over £25,000 after admitting 12 licensing offences. Dexter Blackstock faced charges relating to twelve unlicensed properties he owned and were required to be licensed under either Part 2 or 3 of the Housing Act. Mr Blackstock was convicted of nine offences of failing to license properties under the
A rogue landlord has been fined after his tenants had to live in a house from without electricity, heating or a shower. The property in Cambridge had no cooking facilities or hot water. The kitchen sink was found to not work and fire safety precautions were inadequate. An investigation was launched after the tenants complained. After
A group of students in Leeds have been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation after their landlord failed to reconnect their gas supply. The students had no heating, hot water and no hob to cook for 11 days after a property firm failed to carry out repairs. When the landlord failed to address the fault,
Homeowners, the UK’s leading comparison site for home move services has revealed rising stamp duty bills and conveyancing fees are the key factors leading to increased costs for homeowners, which can be attributed to a marginal 1% annual rise in house prices. As reported by insideconveyancing.co.uk stamp duty makes up almost half of the total
A landlord has been fined after he failed to provide information about one of his properties when asked to do so by a council. Tenants of a home in Colchester contacted Colchester Council in December last year with concerns about the property. The council launched an investigation into potential breaches of housing standards law and
A mouldy and damp house in South Derbyshire was deemed “grossly unfit for human habitation” after children were forced to flush a broken toilet with a bucket of water. A single mother and her two children were living in the house since 2012. Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court heard the property had no hot water, the toilet
The Ministry of Justice have released the 2019 Q2 report on mortgage and landlord possession claims. The report found that there has been an overall decrease in landlord possessions. The highest rate of landlord possession claims was found to be in London with the most seen in Newham. The majority of claims, 58% in total,
Lending to first time buyers is up in the first quarter of 2019, according to figures from UK Finance. In Scotland there were 6,760 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in Scotland, a 4.5% increase from the same quarter last year. Furthermore, there were 6,620 new home mover mortgages, an increase of 6.6%. The figures also
A letting agency has been accused of illegally evicting tenants and taking their belongings. According to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, three tenants, who rented rooms through Flintons, said they arrived home to find locks had been changed and rooms emptied. Some said their possessions had not yet been returned. Others said their belongings were