The primary aim of our service is to help local authorities seek new ways in which to combine commercially viable housing options that stimulate housing supply while at the same time promoting and improving standards in the management of the local private rented sector.

 

Central Bedfordshire Council's Local Letting Agency Model

 

Central Bedfordshire Council commissioned Settled Housing Solutions to develop a Local Letting Agency Model for their Housing Service to focuse the Housing Service on improving the quality and sustainability of accommodation in the local Private Rental Sector.

 

To achieve these objectives Central Bedfordshire's Property Accreditation Scheme was integrated along with a letting agent licencing scheme.

 

This has enabled the local authority to focus their enforcement resources on the 'worst first'  in the local Private Rented Sector while the Local Letting Agency Model provides a commercially attractive incentive to become licenced.

 

Settled Housing Solutions Consultancy Service is happy to discuss in more detail our commissioned projects to date and how we can help your service meet your regulatory targets.
 

“The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) is very pleased to support Central Bedfordshire Council’s new private rented sector housing option, Let’s Rent.
 By seeking the expertise and views of local ARLA Licensed Letting Agents during the development phase of the project, Let’s Rent can now be confidently promoted to both tenants and local landlords as a sustainable housing option which offers management by professionally qualified staff and consumer protection for all parties.
 We also hope that the commercial success of Let’s Rent will also incentivise other unregulated letting agents to join the ARLA Licensed Scheme and by doing so offer both tenants and landlords greater choice of professionally regulated letting agents in the Central Bedfordshire area”.
 Ian Potter –Operations Manager – Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA)

 

 

 

 

 
The January edition of the Chartered Institute of Housing (RICS) Residential Property Journal contains a feature article, titled 'Harnessing the PRS', about our Local lettings Agency project in Central Bedfordshire and how improving property standards were fundamental to the project.

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A report produced for the National Housing Federation, 'The Social Impact of Poor Housing' DownloadDownload
     
  The National Federation of Property Professionals Manifesto 2010: Building and Maintaining a Buoyant Property Sector

 

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  Impact Assessment of regulation of letting and management agents by an independent body  

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  The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' response to the Rugg Review of the Private Rental Sector.

 

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  The British Property Federation's response to the Rugg Review of the Private Rental Sector. DownloadDownload 
   Thames Gateway Sub- Region (South) – Landlord Accreditation Scoping Proposal - Research Findings.  DownloadDownload
     
 
 
 
 

The primary aim of our service is to help local authorities seek new ways in which to combine commercially viable housing options that stimulate housing supply while at the same time promoting and improving standards in the management of the local private rented sector.

 

Central Bedfordshire Council's Local Letting Agency Model

 

Central Bedfordshire Council commissioned Settled Housing Solutions to develop a Local Letting Agency Model for their Housing Service to focuse the Housing Service on improving the quality and sustainability of accommodation in the local Private Rental Sector.

 

To achieve these objectives Central Bedfordshire's Property Accreditation Scheme was integrated along with a letting agent licencing scheme.

 

This has enabled the local authority to focus their enforcement resources on the 'worst first'  in the local Private Rented Sector while the Local Letting Agency Model provides a commercially attractive incentive to become licenced.

 

Settled Housing Solutions Consultancy Service is happy to discuss in more detail our commissioned projects to date and how we can help your service meet your regulatory targets.
 

“The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) is very pleased to support Central Bedfordshire Council’s new private rented sector housing option, Let’s Rent.
 By seeking the expertise and views of local ARLA Licensed Letting Agents during the development phase of the project, Let’s Rent can now be confidently promoted to both tenants and local landlords as a sustainable housing option which offers management by professionally qualified staff and consumer protection for all parties.
 We also hope that the commercial success of Let’s Rent will also incentivise other unregulated letting agents to join the ARLA Licensed Scheme and by doing so offer both tenants and landlords greater choice of professionally regulated letting agents in the Central Bedfordshire area”.
 Ian Potter –Operations Manager – Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA)

 

 

 

 

 
The January edition of the Chartered Institute of Housing (RICS) Residential Property Journal contains a feature article, titled 'Harnessing the PRS', about our Local lettings Agency project in Central Bedfordshire and how improving property standards were fundamental to the project.

 DownloadDownload
     
A report produced for the National Housing Federation, 'The Social Impact of Poor Housing' DownloadDownload
     
  The National Federation of Property Professionals Manifesto 2010: Building and Maintaining a Buoyant Property Sector

 

DownloadDownload
  Impact Assessment of regulation of letting and management agents by an independent body  

DownloadDownload
  The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' response to the Rugg Review of the Private Rental Sector.

 

 DownloadDownload

 
  The British Property Federation's response to the Rugg Review of the Private Rental Sector. DownloadDownload 
   Thames Gateway Sub- Region (South) – Landlord Accreditation Scoping Proposal - Research Findings.  DownloadDownload