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Government must act now to protect high rise residents, say Salford and Greater Manchester Mayors
GREATER Manchester leaders are urging Government to provide immediate funding to carry out urgent fire safety work and protect hard-pressed local residents. In a letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid, the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham calls for urgent action to help local authorities, housing providers,…
Read MoreWhat hidden costs are draining your lettings profits?
Hands up if you’re starting to take your income and profitability a lot more seriously? With the fee ban looming, it’s sensible to examine your income and expenditure in greater detail. While your accounts department will, no doubt, come to you with some black and white figures laid out in a spreadsheet, creating a cost-effective…
Read MoreWhy You Don’t Need to Worry About Online Estate Agents
Our world is being overcome by the internet; it is spreading across our modern society and encompassing everything in our lives, from talking to friends to selling your house. The internet has revolutionised the property market, changing the way consumers think about property and how to sell, buy, let or rent. Online estate agents have…
Read MoreThe Expanding Global Role of Local Estate Agents
It wasn’t so long ago that a local estate agent’s remit would rarely expand outside of their local area, but with the rise of technology and the ubiquitousness of internet access estate agents now must cast their eye much further afield. A number of websites now exist, such as www.immoabroad.com, which offers potential holiday/second home…
Read MorePeriod home restoration: How to square the past, present and future
Are you looking forward to your next home restoration project? Whether you’ve fallen in love with an elegant Georgian townhouse or a magnificent Victorian country manor, it’s the building’s unique architectural features that make it stand out from the crowd. Of course, falling in love is the easy part, but bringing an old period building…
Read More6 places you might find asbestos in your home
Asbestos is very well known as a dangerous materials that has been banned from use in construction since 1999 in the UK. So if you have bought a home, you might think that there is a very low chance that you will find asbestos on your property. But according to reports, there is around a…
Read MoreWhich is the better bathtub – steel or acrylic?
When you’re designing your bathroom, choosing the right bathtub should be a pleasure, not a chore. But while you’re admiring the myriad of beautiful bath shapes and designs available in showrooms such as this one, how do you know which is the best material to go for? The two main materials that bathtubs are made…
Read MoreNFB says: NPPF review is a step in the right direction
The Government has published the consultation document on the revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The document, made up of 17 chapters, formulates 43 questions tackling the local plan-making process and some of the more prominent barriers to growth. There are revisions to design, services, transport, climate change, local economy, and the green…
Read MoreFrom Policeman to Property Market Entrepreneur
From Policeman to Property Market Entrepreneur: An Interview with Nick Marr, co-founder of TheHouseShop.com From fighting crime to fighting property fees, Nick Marr is the ex-policeman who left the force to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams of starting his own company. Nick has run multiple property websites throughout his career, gaining his estate agent qualification from…
Read MoreWhat effect will PRT’s have on Edinburgh Festival Lets
There are no grounds in the PRT that give landlords or letting agents the ability to evict a tenant to enable a property to be rented out for the Festival. The usual practice of securing Festival tenants in January, February and March will no longer be possible from 2019 with the uncertainty of tenants’ plans.…
Read MoreWill fresh funding deliver for coastal communities?
The Government has announced that the fifth round of the Coastal Communities Fund (CCF) in England is open for expressions of interest. The fund, which has seen 295 projects benefit from a total of £174 million in grants since 2012, will make £40 million available between April 2019 and March 2021. Only projects worth more…
Read MoreThe New Letting Landscape in Scotland
On 1st December 2017 new legislation came into effect that changed the way landlords and tenants enter into lease agreements. From that date, all new tenants moving into rental properties in Scotland have to sign a Private Rental Tenancy Agreement (PRT) instead of a Short Assured Tenancy (SAT) agreement. The major difference between the agreements…
Read MoreLondon Housing Slump hands Foxtons a 65% dive in profits
“We are pleased to have delivered a performance in line with market expectations. However, sales activity in the London property market is near historic lows and this had a significant impact on our overall performance in 2017.” Comments by Nic Budde who joined Foxtons in 2005 as its Chief Operating Officer. Full report can be read here…
Read MoreThe ValPal Network to launch new “cost-positive” products to members
The ValPal Network (TVPN) has announced a new range of products alongside its already renowned instant online sales and lettings valuation tool, with an aim to make membership into The ValPal Network cost-positive. Used by over 4,000 agency branches nationwide, the ValPal tool converts an estate agent’s website traffic into vendor and landlord leads, of…
Read MoreWORK BEGINS ON 75 NEW AFFORDABLE HOMES FOR CRAIGMILLAR
Work has begun on 75 much needed new affordable homes at Greendykes in Craigmillar. This follows yesterday’s budget meeting of the City of Edinburgh Council where councillors agreed to a £700m capital investment plan over the next five years to build new homes on sites across the city as well as modernising existing Council homes.…
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