{"id":12806,"date":"2013-05-17T13:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brlets.co.uk\/news\/?p=12806"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:02:05","slug":"freeholders-right-vet-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/benham-reeves\/freeholders-right-vet-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeholders right to vet Landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from Marc Von Grundherr, Director of Benham &amp; Reeves Residential Lettings:<\/p>\n<p>Freeholders Right to Vet Landlords<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recently heard of a landlord, whose freeholder, the block management company, was\u00a0insisting on vetting prospective tenants to the extent that he was losing them. It brought us to\u00a0review the issue of whose business it is to vet tenants \u2013 the landlord or freeholder?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer is often in the nature and terms of the lease \u2013 if it does not authorise the\u00a0freeholder to approve the landlord\u2019s tenants then the freeholder has no right to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a property can become an HMO (and need licensing) then a freeholder may want to\u00a0refuse consent to let \u2013 but still not to vet the actual tenants! We have never heard of a\u00a0freeholder actually monitoring the tenants to whom the landlord has chosen to rent his\u00a0property.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment from Marc Von Grundherr, Director of Benham &amp; Reeves Residential Lettings: Freeholders Right to Vet Landlords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benham-reeves"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12808,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions\/12808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benhams.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}