Lettings Glossary
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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)
Last Updated: 21 March 2024