Reccomendation 6 within The Senedd’s Housing & Local Government Select Committee Report stated the following: "The Welsh Government should explore the feasibility of enabling tenants who are subject to no-fault evictions to retain the last two months’ rent of their tenancy as compensation for the financial and wellbeing impact of...
From the 30th of October 2025 there will be a change to the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 (FFSR). The core changes are outlined below: Baby Product Exemption: New rules will exclude many baby and young child items from the "furniture" definition to reduce their exposure to flame retardants. This means items like infant ma...
Financial sanctions regulations for letting agents are coming in from the 14th of May. This requires agents to check both landlords and tenants (& Guarantors if applicable) against financial sanctions. These checks are to ensure that criminal tenants and landlords cannot enter into rental agreements. Agents will need to check landlords as soon...
Welsh Government recently published a Green Paper: A call for evidence on securing a path towards Adequate Housing – including Fair Rents and Affordability.Of the two elements of the proposals, it will be the fair rent that will be of the greater concern to landlords in Wales, with it ultimately meaning rent controls. This will be viewed by many as ano...
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act, which has been described as the biggest change in housing law in Wales, has been postponed for nearly 6 months from the original date of 15th July to a new date of December 1st.The news will be pleasing to landlords who were first made aware of the upcoming changes at the start of this year. In the months that followed January&...
Significant change to the private rented sector will be implemented by the Welsh Government on 15 July 2022.For a full and detailed explanation visit https://gov.wales/landlords-housing-law-changing-renting-homes - In the meantime we have listed in brief the key points on how the new Act will affect you and what FlatHomes are doing for our managed landlords...
A new online system to allow rent payments, from tenants in receipt of Universal Credit, to be paid directly to private landlords has been launched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The new system for arranging these Alternative Payment Arrangements replaces the two existing UC47 forms cutting the processing time down from in excess of thre...
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