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Scheme listing best landlords insurance customers branded 'useless'

A new scheme which is intended to name the best landlords insurance customers in Oxford has been labelled as pointless by detractors.

Oxford City Council recently gave the go-ahead for the Landlord Accreditation Scheme, a list of the city's best landlords which is designed to weed out unscrupulous landlords.

However, Jan Bartlett, owner of Premier, a letting agency in Cowley Road, said that the system is highly flawed because only a select few landlords insurance customers will be inspected.

She told the Oxford Mail: "They list the benefits of renting through an accredited landlord as including property being in good repair, clear and concise tenancy agreements and properly-recorded damages deposits. But nobody is going to check any of this."

Meanwhile, data recently issued by the Association of Residential Letting Agents revealed that the number of properties owned by the average landlords property insurance customer has risen to seven.

26 Oct 2009