The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) have launched an election site focused on the needs of landlords. With a few clicks of the mouse landlords can find out who their local MP is, who their local candidates are and full details of all the main parties’ policies on housing and the PRS. The site also enables landlords to write to their local MP and their local ...

Landlords now have a legal responsibility to maintain clean water systems and carry out risk assessments for the possibility of Legionnaires Disease. The chances of legionella being present increases if the property is empty for a period of time. For example, student lets that are empty over the summer or void periods. There are severe consequences for landlords in the ...

The Chairman of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), Alan Ward, has written to the Director of News and Current Affairs at ITV in response to a programme aired on the 5th March titled “Britain’s Housing Crisis”. Mr Ward claims the show was a biased representation of conditions within the Private Rented Sector (PRS). Mr Ward was particularly concerned that no ...