Posts by Christopher Walkey
MT Properties Central Limited Expelled from The Property Ombudsman for 2 years.
MT Properties Central Limited (MTPC), a sales and letting agent which operates in Birmingham, has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years after failing to comply with parts of the TPO Code of Practice for Residential Letting Agents. MTPC also failed to co-operate with the Ombudsman’s investigation…
Read More“Buy-to-let Tax cuts won’t put landlords off” says Waterfords.
Following the Chancellor’s summer Budget, in which he announced a substantial crackdown on mortgage interest tax relief, Brendan Cox of Waterfords says he does not think this will put people off investing in buy-to-let. The amount landlords can claim as relief will, from 2017, be set at the basic rate of tax – currently 20…
Read MoreWhat will the budget changes mean for the capital’s property market?
As George Osborne increases the inheritance tax threshold to £1m for married couples by 2017 and cuts mortgage interest relief on buy-to-let homes, Andrew Ellinas, Director of Central and North West London agency Sandfords, comments on what these changes will be mean for the Capital’s property market. “Changes to inheritance tax, allowing married couples and…
Read MoreChannel 4 documentary #DirtyRussianMoney, what was your take on things?
Across social media this topic was ‘warmly’ spoken about and at times increased to ‘heated’ discussions, especially across Twitter. What was your views on things, many say it was merely a show that stitched up Estate Agents in London… ?? Please share your views on here on via Twitter with us on http://www.twitter.com/eauknetworking or a…
Read MoreAs predicted, Government shines light on buy-to-let to tackle housing crisis.
Prior to the Election in May 2015, Michael Riley, Director of Capital & Coastal, correctly predicted that despite which party came into power, it would only be a matter of time before the new Government “shone a light” on the buy-to-let industry as a way of tackling the lack of stock driving the country’s housing…
Read MoreLandlord faces agent who owes her £20,000.
Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ is set to show how one rogue operator gives good letting agents a bad name. Margaret Wilson faces the agent that owes her £20,000 in a perfectly captured showdown on Wednesday 8th July at 9pm. Margaret Wilson owns two rental properties in Oxfordshire. Two years ago she handed them…
Read MoreSocial Media and a few words of advice…
Sooner or later (most likely sooner) social media will not form such a question as ‘are you using social media‘ and be more the case of ‘what is your social media username‘, I mean you hardly hear anyone saying these days ‘do you have a telephone number‘ or ‘do you use email‘? Such is the importance…
Read MoreNews: @RaterAgent web traffic on upward trend, but still behind @Allagentsuk…
Just 5 months since its creation – and 2 months since its formal launch – raterAgent is already the second most-popular, dedicated estate and letting agent review site in the UK. Using Alexa.com rankings – verified by that site’s owners, Amazon.com – the graph below shows how, in the 5 months since our ‘beta’ launch,…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Ian Thomas, Marketing Director, OnBoard Pro.
What is OnBoard Pro? OnBoard Pro is a professional software company that uses the latest technology to equip busy Letting Agents with cloud based applications that transform the complex processes that are associated with a tenant application and move in. The result is more robust and much quicker than current methods. OnBoard Pro is challenging…
Read More#OnTheMarket continues to break traffic records:
Onthemarket are delighted to tell you that they have seen another record breaking month in terms of traffic to OnTheMarket.com. 4.4 million visits Over 2 million unique visitors They are continuing to see strong engagement from consumers in terms of pages viewed per visit and time on site and a high percentage of repeat visitors. This reflects both the quality…
Read MoreThree landlords face financial ruin on ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’
The second episode of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, due to air on Wednesday 1st July 2015 at 9pm, will feature three separate landlords all facing financial ruin as a result of troublesome tenants. Calling on the expert help of Landlord Action to help regain possession of their property and chase outstanding arrears, Founder…
Read MoreComing away from, but to return to Television?
Just the other day, during another of my chats with a group of social media and marketing folk I meet up with, we got round to the conversation of television and how it has been and maybe become once again the main way to advertise. If we think about it, television has most likely taken…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Tijan Penpee of Comparehomes.
Why was Comparehomes created? Comparehomes.co.uk was created to simplify the process of finding an apartment through an estate agent. The process of searching and screening has always been the hardest part of finding a home and at Comparehomes we help to separate the wheat from the chaff. When customers place a request through Comparehomes we…
Read MoreSorry, but are we now in need of a rating website for all the rating websites?
It certainly seems that new #proptech and start up companies within UK Estate Agency are popping up everywhere which is mostly a good thing – Every industry needs new blood, ideas and energy, especially with current trends where technology/communication/marketing are advancing and changing so rapidly. Recent trend seems to be in Estate Agency review websites…
Read MoreRegents Estate Agents open a new office in Addlestone.
Regents Estate Agents, part of the Badger Holdings Group, are pleased to announce the opening of its newest branch situated on Station Road in Addlestone, Surrey. With four other branches in prominent commuter towns; Chertsey, Sunbury on Thames, Staines upon Thames and most recently Woking, the addition of Addlestone fits perfectly within the Regents’ network.…
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