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Latest Housing market anaysis from the HCA
Here is the June 2015 edition: HCA_Housing_Market_Bulletin_-_June_2015 (1) …
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Immigration checks by HAs
Housing associations will not be liable for ensuring their tenants carry out immigration status checks on lodgers, the Home Office has said. In an…
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Company secretary update
Here is an article from our friends at Anthony Collins solictors givig useful governance advice (sign up to your oen copy at the end…
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5 ways to stay independently in your home
All of us want to stay in our own homes as long as we can as we get older. It’s good for us –…
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Problems with shared ownership
Shared ownership is hailed as the answer to the housing crisis for younger people is simple: aside from a social tenancy (which aspiring shared…
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Housing data is inaccurate
More than a third of data that social landlords hold on tenants is inaccurate or missing, according to a tech supplier to the housing…
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Delay in implementing regulatory fees
Regulatory fees for English housing associations look unlikely to come in until 2017 at the earliest unless the communities secretary signs off a consultation…
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Pottential downgrading of HAs over new asset registers
Housing associations in England could face regulatory downgrades if the Homes and Communities Agency uncovers insufficient asset and liability registers in its new in-depth…
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Minister requests housing to champion the RTB as HCA threaten
Brandon Lewis is to call on housing associations to ‘become the champions of aspiration’ and support the extension of the Right to Buy. In…
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HCA to probe welfare reform
The English social housing regulator will launch an investigation into the impact of the government’s fresh welfare spending cuts on housing associations following the…