Senior letting agents: Key legal principles and best practices

This course is aimed at experienced letting agents as it covers key legal principles and best practices.

Understand essential laws, regulations, and strategies to navigate complex tenancy issues while ensuring compliance and providing exceptional service to both landlords and tenants.

Topics

Creating and ending tenancies
Serving the correct notices (eg Section 21, Section 8 and other notices)
Non-housing tenancies
Tenants rights
Right to Rent
Landlord obligations
Section 11
The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS)
HMO management regulations, failure to obtain a licence and statutory penalties
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 and the lack of repair

Unfair terms in contracts
Statutory consultation processes for works and long-term agreements
Consumer protection law, issued and problems to resolve
Contract law
Tenancies and their problems, including commercial leases created through Airbnb
Immigration Act 2014 and 2016
Deregulation Act 2015 — Section 21 notices and continued implications for repair
Repair and consequences of failing to comply with statutory obligations

Virtual classroom vs face-to-face

Our virtual classroom combines convenience and engagement, offering expert-led sessions you can join from anywhere. With real-time interaction and clear guidelines for smooth collaboration, you’ll enjoy a professional and dynamic learning experience without the need to travel. To enable the course to run smoothly, we ask that you mute your microphone unless asking a question and keep your camera on.

With our face-to-face courses you’ll benefit from the full lesson plan plus an increased level of interaction and group work. This is your chance to participate in group discussions with our expert trainer and other delegates on the course.

Location: Propertymark Westminster, 4th Floor, 5-8 The Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3JS

In-house training

This course is also available as in-house training in your office for groups of five to 20 people. This is an extremely cost-effective way of training larger groups. You just need to provide the coffee and the venue and we'll provide our highly experienced trainers and the course materials.