You may have heard time and time again that there is a housing shortage coupled with affordability in purchasing a property which means that it is a landlord’s market, even with Brexit on the horizon.Most landlords will instruct a letting agent to manage their properties. This presents its own problems because letting agents will charge the landlord for their services, but more importantly tenants are also lumbered with often hidden and unreasonable charges which they have to meet in addition to their rental obligations, which could include fees for…

What is adverse possession?This is when a person who doesn’t have the ownership rights over a land acquires legal title because they have been continually living on the land (previously 12 years but since October 2003 is now 10 years) – sometimes known as squatters’ rights.

Once you have obtained judgment (also known as a County Court Judgment or CCJ) for a debt (that is, a formal court order), that is not normally the end of the matter as this in itself does not always guarantee actual payment of the sum owed.

The Immigration Act 2014 introduced in February 2016 in England, made a requirement that a landlord must check the immigration…

A claim made under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 is for reasonable financial provision from an estate where you have not been provided for or properly provided for under a Will or pursuant to the rules of intestacy if there is no Will.

Only certain classes of people can make these claims and they are subject to very strict time limits.