{"id":724,"date":"2011-04-20T07:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.legal4landlords.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2011-04-20T07:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T07:23:45","slug":"social-landlords-enter-the-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.withcreative.co.uk\/lforl\/social-landlords-enter-the-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Landlords Enter The Private Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Latest Landlord News by: Madalena Penny<\/p>\n

The severe shortage of available housing stock in both the social and private sectors has prompted yet another council to dip their toe into private rented sector property management.\u00a0 Doncaster ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation) St. Leger Homes has announced they are establishing a private landlord register.<\/p>\n

As a company, set-up by Doncaster council in 2005, they plan on working in close relation with the region\u2019s private landlords in a bid to ensure decent homes and to manage them on behalf of independent landlords, whilst ensuring rents are set in accordance with the local authority level.<\/p>\n

There have been a number of local authorities within the first quarter of this year that are now turning to the private sector to alleviate the problems accruing from the growing number of people on local council waiting lists.<\/p>\n

As part of their ongoing \u2018Landlord Awareness Initiative\u2019, landlord infrastructure, \u2018Legal 4 Landlords<\/a>\u2019 are advising and working with landlord alliances and groups to advise on trends, legalities and emerging local authority incentives and initiatives for the private rented sector.<\/p>\n

Innovating as these housing initiatives are, landlords thinking of joining up with council run schemes are still advised to weigh up the pros and cons of such incentives.<\/p>\n