Following on from our previous article "Goverment to Licence Landlords" the government have now produced a response to the Julie Rugg review.Thus taking this a step further to making it compulsory.

The overall plan would mean private landlords would have to be registered before being allowed to let residential properties.

They would have to comply with certain standards and those who fail to carry out repairs or who intimidate tenants could be struck off.

The number of buy-to-let investor landlords including the 'accidental landlord' has grown over recent years to about one million in England and Wales, and ministers are worried that some rogue landlords are exploiting tenants.

Naturally,such a registration scheme must work for the law-abiding landlords while helping to clamp down on the unscrupulous landlords.

Most landlords are compliant with the law will always be compliant, so such a scheme should not be burdensome.

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