Eviction instructions up 43% versus pre-pandemic says Landlord Action

Landlord Action, one of the UK's best-known eviction and housing law specialists, has seen a 43 percent rise in instructions from landlords and letting agents between 1 June 2021, when the eviction ban ended, and 1 September 2021, versus the same period in 2019, before the pandemic.

The company has also seen a 17 percent rise in enquiries to their landlord advice line during this time, receiving nearly 2,000 calls in just three months. With the period of notice landlords must serve to tenants brought back to pre-pandemic timescales from 1 October (two months for Section 21 and two weeks for Section 8), Landlord Action anticipates a continued surge in enquiries, but warns review hearings at county courts are still causing long delays to the eviction process....

County Courts will not cope with ‘eviction avalanche’

In 2020, as part of government restrictions to protect tenants during the pandemic, the number of residential evictions fell by an estimated 20,000 (74%). According to eviction and housing law specialists Landlord Action, County Courts are facing an ‘eviction avalanche’ when the ban on bailiff-led evictions comes to an end on 31 May and courts are faced with processing and enforcing the backlog, in addition to those cases which arise this year. Similar warnings have also been made by the House of Lords constitutional committee in a report published on 30 March....

Brand new series of ‘Evictions! Nightmare Tenants’ starts this week

The long-awaited new series of Channel 5’s ‘Evictions! Nightmare Tenants’ launches on Wednesday 17 February at 8pm. This 10-part series, filmed prior to COVID-19 restrictions, follows the frontline work of letting agents, eviction specialists and lawyers helping landlords chase rent arrears and get their properties back; as well as council housing enforcement officers clamping down on slum landlords taking advantage of vulnerable tenants....

Founder of Landlord Action, Paul Shamplina, wins Best Seminar Speaker

Founder of Landlord Action and Brand Ambassador for Hamilton Fraser, Paul Shamplina, has won ‘Best Seminar Speaker’ at The National Landlord Investment Show Awards, after receiving nearly 40 percent of the overall votes.

The National LIS Awards took place on 21st November 2019 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane. The evening brought together more than 400 major players from the worlds of finance, law, tax, property development and insurance, celebrating companies working at the top of their game and demonstrating their individual efforts to go above and beyond to ensure that the PRS continues to function, regardless of the backdrop....

Landlord 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

We are delighted to announce that Landlord Action have been shortlisted in the ‘Best Landlord Legal Services Provider’ category at this year’s National LIS Awards 2019 for the second year running....

Living in the same building as their serial ban tenant… a couple’s worst nightmare

It’s been heavily publicised that a large percentage of the UK’s retirees are struggling to live off their pension, so it’s no surprise that some over 65s have turned to renting out rooms in their home, or other properties they may have, to boost their income. However, in this week’s episode of Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords (Monday 15th July, 9pm, Channel 5) viewers will see landlords, Jackie and John, a retired couple from a seaside village in Norfolk, locked in a battle with their non-paying tenant which is making their lives hell. What makes it even worse, is she lives in the same building as them....

Improving fraud detection is vital for the future of the PRS, says Landlord Action

On Monday 8 July, Paul Shamplina and his team at Landlord Action will once again appear on Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’, this time highlighting the need for better fraud detection when it comes to referencing. Paul Shamplina says letting agents and referencing companies who invest in technology with the means to validate tenants’ financial means and payment histories will stand to benefit in the future, as landlords look for greater assurances....

A ‘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 been asked to leave by their landlords, to stay put until they are evicted. In many cases, landlords are left with thousands of pounds of rent arrears and legal costs, as will be shown on this week’s episode of ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’ (Channel 5, 9pm)....

From Scam Artists to Family Feuds - ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’ continues

In this week’s episode of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’, Landlord Action tackles two very different eviction cases, one involving an illegal sub-let by a ‘professional’ scam artist, the other which sees a favour turn into a family feud.

In the first case, young landlord Han Yip discovers his West London flat is being illegally sublet to three unsuspecting students. They have been paying thousands of pounds to live in an exclusive part of London, but their rent is being pocketed by the man who posed as the legitimate tenant. Flaunting his seemingly ‘flashy’ life on Instagram and showing off about his ‘property business empire’, he is in fact a scam artist, who has spent time in a US prison on fraud charges....