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• Abandonment of Goods or Possessions
• Abandonment of Tenancy
• Absent Landlord
• Academic Term
• Academic Year
• Accelerated Degree
• Accelerated Notice to Quit (ANTQ)
• Access
• Accidental Landlord
• Accommodation Types
• Accreditation - Landlord
• Acoustic or Sound Insulation
• Acts of Parliament and Judicial Cases Related to Property
• Additional Clause
• Address for Service
• Administration Fee (Admin Fees)
• Advanced Rent
• Adverse Possession
• Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
• Agent
• Agent of Necessity
• Alterations
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Amenities
• Amortization
• Anecdotes for Landlords and Tenants
• Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
• Annual Rent and/or Bills
• Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED)
• Appraisal
• Arms Length Property Sale
• Arrangement Fees
• Arrears
• Arrival Date
• Article 4 Directions
• Articles
• Asbestos
• Asking Price
• Assignment of a Tenancy Agreement
• Associations - Landlord and Letting
• Assured Agricultural Tenancy (AAT)
• Assured Periodic Tenancy (APT)
• Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST)
• Assured Tenancy (AT)
• Auction
• Authorised Guarantee Agreement (AGA)
• Back to Back Tenancy
• Bailiff
• Bank Statements
• Beds-in-Sheds
• Below Market Value (BMV)
• Benefit Recipients
• Betterment
• Bijoux Property
• Bills
• Bills Package
• Black Listing
• Blind Booking / Reserving Blind
• Block Management
• Boiler Servicing
• Bond
• Booking / Reserving A Property
• Breach - tenants in breach
• Break Clause
• Bridging Loan
• Broad Market Rental Areas (BMRA)
• Broker
• Brown Goods
• Build to Rent
• Building Control
• Building Notice
• Buy To Let (BTL) Mortgage
• Buy to Sell
• Cancellation
• Cancellation Fee
• Cannabis Farms
• Capital
• Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
• Capital Repayment Mortgage
• Carbon Monoxide Alarms
• Case Law
• Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
• Certification
• Chain
• Change Of Use
• Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
• Chattels
• Check-In Tenants
• Check-Out Tenants
• Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB)
• Civil Law
• Claim
• Claim and Defence (C&D)
• Claimant
• Class C Planning Permission
• Claw Back
• Cleaners - Cleaned to a Professional Standard
• Cleaning / Professional Cleaning
• Cleared Funds
• Clearing UCAS
• Client
• Client Account
• Client Conflict of Interest
• Client Instructions
• Client Money Protection (CMP)
• Co-regulation
• Commencement Date
• Commission
• Commissioning Certificates
• Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP)
• Common Hold
• Common Household
• Common Law
• Common Law Tenancy (CLT)
• Common Parts
• Company Lets
• Comparables
• Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)
• Compatibility of House-Mates
• Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
• Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
• Complete Completion, Completion of Sale
• Compliance
• Confidentiality Clause
• Confiscation Orders
• Conflict of Interest
• Conflict - tenant
• Consents
• Consideration
• Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRS)
• Consumer Rights Act 2015
• Contract
• Contractor or Tradespeople
• Contrived Tenancy
• Conveyancing
• Cooling Off Period
• Core Terms
• Coronavirus Act 2020
• Corporate Landlord
• Corporate Tenant
• Correspondence Address
• Council Tax
• Counter-Offer
• County Court Judgement (CCJ)
• Courts
• Covenants
• Credit Checks
• Credit Rating or Credit Status
• Credit Reference Agency
• Crowd Funding
• Custodial Scheme
• Damages
• Dane-geld
• Data
• Data Gathering HMRC
• Data Protection
• Death
• Decanting
• Declination of Prospective Tenants
• Deed of Assignment of Tenancy
• Deed of Guarantee
• Deeds
• Delegated Legislation
• Demise of a Lease/Tenancy
• Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
• Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
• Deposit - Protection From 2007 - Renting
• Deposit Protection Scheme (DPS)
• Deposit - Purchase
• Deposit Scheme For Regulated Agents (DSPRA)
• Deregulation Act 2015
• Detectors
• Dilapidations
• Direct Payments
• Direct Repayment Mortgage
• Disabled Tenants
• Disclosure
• Discretionary Grounds
• Discrimination of Tenants
• Distance Selling
• Dominant Tenement
• Double Agent
• Draft Tenancy
• Dropping Out
• Drugs, Students & House-Mates
• Dry Rot
• Dual Benefit
• Dual Liability
• Due Diligence
• Due Process
• Dwelling
• Easements
• Effluxion of Time
• Electoral Role
• Electric Certification
• Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020
• Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs)
• Empty Property Service
• Encumbrance
• End Tenant
• Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
• Energy Ratings
• Enforceable / Unenforceable
• Enforcement
• Enforcement Options
• Enjoin or Joinder of Action
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Environmental Health Officer (EHO)
• Equality Act 2010 - Section 15 - Defence to Eviction
• Equity (2 meanings)
• Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
• Erasmus Students
• Essential Services
• Estate
• Estate at Will
• Estoppel and Promissory Estoppel
• Eviction
• Excess
• Exchange of Contracts
• Exclusive Possession
• Extension of Mandatory Licensing Act 2018
• Extension of Tenancy Term (duration)
• Falling Market
• Fees
• Fiduciary Relationship
• Financial Intermediaries and Claims Office (FICO)
• Fines
• Fire Doors
• Fire Risk Assessment (FRA)
• Fire Safety Act 2021
• Fit and Proper Person
• Fixed Term
• Footprint 1 (Carbon)
• Footprint 2 (Credit Checking)
• For Sale by Owner (FSBO)
• Forced Sale Value (FSV)
• Forfeiture
• Forwarding Past Tenants Mail
• Four Unities
• Fraud Prevention
• Freeholder
• Frequency or Duration
• Full and Final Settlement
• Funds
• Fungal Growth
• Furniture
• Further Advance
• Gas Safety
• Gas Safety Register (GSR)
• Gazumping
• Gearing
• Gentrification
• Ghostification
• Goods and Possessions
• Grandlord/Granlord
• Green Deal
• Grounds for Eviction
• Guarantor or Parental Guarantor
• Guide Rent / Guide Price
• Halls of Residence
• Harassment
• Head Leasing
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
• Heat Detectors
• Heat Pumps
• Heave
• Help to Buy
• High Rent Tenancies
• HM Land Registry
• Holding Deposit
• Holding Over
• Holiday Lets
• Homelessness
• Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018
• Homestamp
• Household
• Housemates
• Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
• Housing Act 1988
• Housing Act 2004
• Housing Benifits
• Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS)
• Housing and Planning Act 2016
• How to Rent Guide
• Iceberg Houses - The Only Way Is Down!
• Identification (ID)
• Identity Theft
• Immigration Act 2014
• Improvement Notice
• In Loco Parentis
• Income Tax Allowable Expenses
• Independent Taxation
• Individual, Individual Tenancy
• Inferior Tenant
• Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
• Inheritance Tax (IHT)
• Inner Room
• Inspection (Property Inspection)
• Insulation
• Insurances for Lettings
• Intentional Homelessness
• Interest
• Interest for Life - A Life Interest or Life Estate
• Interest Only Mortgage
• Interim Management Order (IMO)
• Interim Management Orders
• International Union of Property Owners (UIPI)
• Intestate
• Inventory
• Inventory Abbreviations
• Investment Property
• Invitation to Treat
• Johnson & Ors v Old [2013] EWCA Civ 415
• Joinder of Action
• Joint and Several Liability
• Joint Tenancy
• Judicial Revue (JR)
• Judiciary
• Just and Reasonable
• Key Security Code
• Landlord
• Landlord Associations, Forums and Organisations
• Landlord / lady
• Landlord Referencing Services (LRS)
• Landslip
• Large HMO
• Lead Tenant
• Lease
• Leasehold
• Legal Estates
• Legal Protection
• Let to Let
• Letting Agent Management Software
• Lettings Glossary
• Leverage
• Licensable Property
• License - By Invitation
• License to Let
• Lien
• Lifestyle Referencing
• Limitation Act 1980
• Loan to Rent Ratio
• Loan to Value (LTV)
• Local Authority (LA)
• Local Housing Allowance (LHA)
• Localism Act 2011
• Locks
• Lodger
• London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
• Low Pressure (LP) Boiler
• Low Rent Tenancies
• Mail and Redirecting Mail or Posted Posting and Packages
• Maintenance Commission
• Making Tax Digital (MTD)
• Man of Straw
• Managed Properties, Management Company, Managing Agent
• Mandatory Grounds
• Mandatory Licensed Properties
• Mansion Tax
• Market Appraisals
• Market Rent
• The Market
• Material Facts
• Mature Students
• McKenzie Friend
• Mesne Profits
• Minister v Hathaway & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 936 (23 June 2021)
• Misrepresentation
• Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)
• Month
• Mortgage
• Mould
• Multi Listing Service (MLS)
• Multiple Tenants
• National Crime Agency (NCA)
• National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team (NTSEAT)
• Negative Equity
• Neighbour
• New Page Title
• Next Friend
• Next of Kin (NOK)
• Night - Time Economy
• No Letting No Fee
• Noise and Noise Legislation
• Non - Doms
• Non-Housing Act Tenancy
• Non-Standard Clause
• Notice - Advanced/Prior
• Notice from Tenant
• Notice Periods
• Notice Seeking Possession (NSP)
• Notice to Quit (NTQ)
• Notices
• NRL 1 : Non - Residence Landlord Tax Scheme
• NTSELAT
• Occupants / Occupation / Actual Occupation
• Occupier's Liability
• Off-Plan
• Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
• Oligopoly
• On Behalf Of The Landlord
• Open Day
• Open Market Value (OMV)
• Order for Possession or Possession Order
• Overcrowding
• Overpayments
• Overriding Interests
• Owner Occupier
• Parental Guarantor
• Parol Evidence
• Part P: Electrical Safety in Dwellings (Building Regulations)
• Parties
• Party Wall etc. Act 1996
• Payment
• Penalties
• Pension From Letting
• Pensione
• Peppercorn Rents
• Periodic Electrical Safety Inspections
• Periodic Tenancy (PT)
• Permission - Various and Most Common
• Permitted Development
• Personal Information (PI)
• Pests
• Peter Rachman
• Pets
• Pied-de-terre
• Planning Permission
• Popping in Dropping-in
• Portable Appliance
• Portable Appliance Test (PAT)
• Portable Appliance Test (PAT)
• Portfiolio
• Portfolio Landlord
• Positive Covenants
• Possession, Vacant Possession
• Possessions
• Post
• Post For Previous Tenants
• Power of Attorney (POA)
• Pre-listing
• Premium
• Premium Lease
• Premium Tenancies
• Prescribed Form
• Prescribed Information (PI)
• Principle
• Principle Private Residence (PPR)
• Private Rented Sector (PRS)
• Probate
• Process Server
• Professional
• Professional Cleaning
• Profits à Prendre
• Promissory Estoppel
• Property
• Property Particulars
• Property Redress Scheme (PRS)
• Proprietary Estoppel
• Proprietary Particulars
• Protected Tenant
• Protection From Eviction Act 1977
• Public Liability
• Put on Notice
• Quiet Enjoyment
• Ratio Descidendi
• Reasonable
• Record Keeping
• Redemption
• Redirecting Mail
• References and Checks
• Reluctant Landlord
• Renewal Bookings Returning Tenants
• Rent
• Rent-a-Room Scheme
• Rent Abatement
• Rent Appraisal
• Rent Assessment Committee (RACs)
• Rent Frequency
• Rent Guarantee
• Rent Increase via a Section 13 Notice
• Rent Out
• Rent Repayment Orders (RROs)
• Rent to Rent
• Repairs
• Repossession
• Resident Landlord (Two Types)
• Residential Property Tribunal (RPT)
• Resolution Foundation (RF)
• Respondent
• Restraint Notice
• Restrictive Covenants
• Retainer
• Retaliatory Evictions
• Retention for Maintenance
• Revenue
• Revenue Tax
• Right to Rent Guide
• Right to Reside (R2R)
• Rights of Audience
• Rights and Obligations
• Rigsby
• Rip-off Rents
• Rising Damp
• Risk Assessment
• Rogue Landlords
• Room-mates
• Rooms
• Rubbish
• Safety Certificates
• Sealed Bid
• Second Gear Valuations
• Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
• Section 13 of the Housing Act 1988 - Notice Warning Tenants of Rent Increase
• Section 196 of the Law of Property Act 1925
• Section 20 of the Housing Act 1988 - Notice
• Section 21(1.b/4.a) of the Housing Act 1988 - Fixed Tenancy / Periodic Tenancy - Notices To Quit
• Section 21 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984
• Section 22 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
• Section 45 of the Flood & Water Management Act 2010
• Section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 - Notice to Quit - Grounds for Eviction
• Security Deposit
• Selective License
• Self Contained Accommodation
• Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
• Service
• Service Charges
• Servient Tenement
• Set-Off
• Settlor
• Sewerage
• Shelter
• Sheltered Housing
• Sheriff
• Signatures
• Silent Killer
• Silver Landlords
• Single Household
• Sitting Tenants
• Slavery
• Slow Start Mortgage
• Small Claims Court
• Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015
• Smoke Detector
• Social Housing
• Sofa Surfing
• Soft Furnishing
• Specific Performance
• Spencer v Taylor [2013] EWCA Civ 1600 (20 November 2013)
• Spite House
• Spouse
• Squatter Squatting
• Stakeholder
• Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT)
• Standard Letters
• Statements
• Statutory
• Statutory Periodic Tenancy
• Stay of Execution
• Storage / Repository
• Storey
• Street v Mountford [1985] UKHL 4 (02 May 1985)
• Student
• Student Finance
• Student Rights
• Studentification
• Studio
• Subject To Contract
• Sublease
• Subletting
• Subsidence
• Substitute
• Succession
• Sui Generis (Of Its Own Kind)
• Summons For Possession
• Sun Pipes
• Superior Tenant
• Superstrike Ltd v Rodrigues [2013] EWCA Civ 669 (14 June 2013)
• Surrender
• Surveys and Fees
• Suspended Possession Order / Suspended Order for Possession
• Tax Campaign
• Tax Exemption
• Taxes - Property
• Television (TV) Rules For Tenants
• Tenancies Compared & Identified
• Tenancy
• Tenancy Agreement (TA)
• Tenancy At Will
• Tenancy, Common Law Tenancy (CLT)
• Tenancy in Common (TIC)
• Tenancy Relations Officer (TRO)
• Tenant
• Tenant Fees Act 2019
• Tenant Referencing
• Tenement
• Term - Duration
• Termination
• Termination Date
• Terms
• Terms - Academic
• Terms (As In) - A Statement of Terms
• Terms & Conditions - Tenancy Terms & Conditions
• Terms of Business
• The Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006
• The Three...
• Third Parties
• Timber Treatment
• Time Is Of The Essence
• Time Share
• Timing
• Title Deeds
• Top-Up
• Tort, English Law
• Town and Gown
• Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• Transparency
• Trespass
• Turnkey
• Turnover
• UK Border Agency (UKBA)
• UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)
• Ultra Vires
• Uncategorised Category
• Under-occupancy Charge
• Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
• Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999
• Unilateral Decisions - are they legal?
• Universal Credit (UC)
• Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, The (UCAS)
• Unrelated Tenants (See HMO Criteria)
• Utilities
• Vacancy
• Vacant Possession
• Valuation Office Agency (VOA)
• Valuation Survey (VALS)
• Value Added Tax (VAT)
• Vanhootstraten
• Vanilla Property
• Variable Rate Mortgage
• Vendor
• Ventilation
• Verbal (Oral) Tenancy Agreement
• Viewing Seasons
• Viewings
• Vitiation
• Void
• Vulnerable Individual or Group
• Warden Assisted Accommodation
• Waste
• Water Utilities
• Wear and Tear - Fair
• Wet Rot
• White Goods
• Without Prejudice
• Witnesses
• Written or In Writing
• Xylophile
• Yield
• You
• Zero-Rate Value-Added Tax (VAT)