There are a number of areas where you might wish an employee to either live in your house or in a property owned by you as part of their employment. The obvious examples being a butler or housekeeper, a nanny, a property manager, a caretaker, a cleaner, a pub manager, a carer or an agricultural farm worker.

Landlords and managing agents should be reminded to consider consulting with tenants before entering into contracts to provide services or carry out works relating to residential properties. In a recent High Court case, a management company entered into a 25-year agreement with a third party service provider to provide maintenance services for flats without consulting the tenants. The court decided that the management company could only recover a maximum of £100 from each flat tenant per year.