A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 after being prosecuted for breaching new laws demanding that all private landlords with homes in Wales must be licensed.
Shelley Bailey of Wotton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire has been penalised after ignoring the law requiring all private landlords with properties in Wales to register and all self-managing landlords and letting agents to become trained and licensed.
The Welsh government’s Rent Smart Wales scheme became law, as part of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014, at the tail end of last year, and yet it is estimated that a number of private landlords with properties in Wales have still not signed up to the scheme, which could mean that they are letting out properties illegally.
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