Hamilton Fraser Insurance - September 2010

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September 2010

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Welcome to Property Insight, the Hamilton Fraser E-Newsletter for our Property Insurance customers.

What should the government be doing for the private rental sector?

If residential landlords were hanging on for a Conservative-led government to radically overhaul housing policy and ignite a bonfire of red tape, they will have realised by now that they're going to be disappointed. The coalition government's housing policy has become slightly more clear in recent weeks, and there hasn't been much good news for landlords. Changes to HMO regulation and housing benefit coupled with a lack of any improvements to the mountain of red tape landlords have to deal with, leave the whole sector looking like it might be even worse off. What should the government be doing to help landlords?

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Hamilton Fraser Shortlisted

Hamilton Fraser has been shortlisted for the Insurance Services award at the national Landlord & Letting awards 2010.

Mike Glanvill, Business Delivery Director, said: "It's fantastic to be shortlisted for the awards and a testament to the professionalism, hard work and commitment of everyone at Hamilton Fraser. We have some strong competition but my fingers are now crossed that we bring home a trophy!"

The awards will take place on the 17th November 2010 at the Hilton Hotel, Birmingham NEC. Click here to find out more about the Landlord & Letting Awards.

Councils must prosecute rogue landlords

Local authorities must prosecute landlords who wilfully ignore laws aimed at protecting tenants, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA), the largest representative body for private-residential landlords in the UK.

A new investigation by the housing charity, Shelter, found that a "small but dangerous" group of landlords are bringing the whole private-rented sector into disrepute.

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