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List of `good landlords` proposed

13/05/2009

The Government is planning to introduce a list of `good landlords` to protect tenants in England.

As the BBC reports, all private landlords in the country would have their details included on a national register. Any landlord who failed to carry out essential repairs or to keep their tenants` deposits safe could be struck off the list.

The proposals also include giving tenants a minimum of two months` notice if their landlord`s property was about to be repossessed. In the past, it seems, some tenants have been given less than two weeks` notice to find a new home.

A similar list was introduced in Scotland three years ago, but Wales and Northern Ireland do not have a register, as this would need to be introduced by their own assemblies.

In recent news, the National Landlords Association (the leading representative body for private-residential landlords in the UK) has stated that UK tenants are more in debt to their landlords than at any time since the late 1980s: at the end of the first three months of 2009, 37% of landlords had tenants in arrears.

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