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‘Rumble with the Agents’ raises £18k for Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice
On Thursday 25th May 2017 ‘Rumble with the Agents’, an annual white collar charity boxing event in association with Landlord Action and sponsored by Hamilton Fraser, raised £18,000 for Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice. The sell-out event, which took place at The Holiday Inn Finchley Central, brought together a room filled with property professionals, including estate/letting…
Read MoreDon’t make a mess of MEES
There’s a lot to think about in lettings right now. The ban on tenant fees looks pretty certain, with each of the three major political parties reiterating the intention in their election manifestos. There are murmurings of a change to leaseholds if the Conservatives sweep to power and in the background, landlords are getting to…
Read MoreThe Happy Tenant Company acquires well known Landlord and Letting business
The Happy Tenant Company (HTC), a residential asset management company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Landlord and Letting Show, The Landlord and Letting Awards and The Landlord and Buy to Let magazine, alongside plans to host their first landlord conference later this year. Recognised in the industry, the Landlord and Letting show…
Read MoreAre homeowners falling out of love with online estate agents?
Online estate agents have certainly made a big splash in the property market. You only need to turn on your TV to see an online estate agency advert, or walk down the street to see their ‘for sale’ boards outside a home. As a nation that has spent many years criticising estate agents, it’s no…
Read MoreWhy Estate Agents should embrace PropTech
It’s an exciting time for the property industry right now. Every day, PropTech takes another step forward in revolutionising the property industry. More start-ups are established, more deals are made and with innovative solutions always in the pipeline, we’re entering an era where PropTech will be the face of property. PropTech is no longer on…
Read MoreWhy You Should Seriously Consider Building Your Dream Home – A Guide to Self-Building and Self Build Mortgages
Why Build It Yourself? Building your own home is becoming an increasingly popular and viable option for people as the housing market remains saturated and house prices continue to soar. TV shows like Grand Designs and The Restoration Man are proving that ordinary people are able to create their own dream home, and that ideas…
Read MoreOneDome Launches New Online Products to Provide Agents ‘Hybrid’ Offering
OneDome, the technology company behind discovery tool, Locality Reality, launches a suite of products that enable high street estate agents to compete with disrupters. The product toolkit, consisting of a series of web apps, empowers any agency to both enjoy digital capabilities superior to that of hybrid or pure online estate agents and to offer…
Read MoreRevealed: How property price affects friendliness in London
⦁ Higher property prices tend to mean less arguments, analysis shows ⦁ £532,486 is the ideal property value for living the peaceful life in the capital ⦁ Research reveals the city’s main causes of arguments between neighbours ⦁ Noise and parking the biggest cause of disputes among London’s residents ⦁ Full findings can be found…
Read MoreRISE IN SINGLE PROPERTY LANDLORDS HIT BY BUY-TO-LET TAX CHANGES
Single property landlords are finally waking up to the fact they could be pushed in to a higher tax bracket following the introduction of new taxation rules for buy to let, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). The statement comes as recent research from the NLA shows the proportion of single property landlords who…
Read MoreHome buyers down 12% on last year:
Home buyers up 27% in March compared to February but down 12% on last year… We’ve had a busy year in all what with Trump and Brexit! On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, lending in March: Home buyers borrowed £11.2bn First-time buyers borrowed £4.9bn for home-owner house purchase Home movers borrowed £6.2bn Home-owner remortgage activity was up…
Read MoreThe Property Ombudsman expels London Corporate Apartments:
Landlords and tenants are being warned that London Corporate Apartments Ltd (LCA) has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme for failing to pay an award following a rental deposit dispute. The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme helps more than 16,000 consumers with their property disputes every year and the scheme’s free, fair and impartial…
Read MoreTPO expels Essex lettings agent following complex landlord dispute
Ombudsman considers an extraordinary case concerning three properties and issues including tenant referencing, outstanding rent and repair bills and a tenancy renewal agreed without the landlord’s consent The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme has expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd for two years after Lettings Solutions Ltd failed to pay an award following a review of a highly…
Read MoreNightmare agent with no Client Money Protection causes double-trouble for landlord
This week (Thursday 18th May, 9pm) Channel Five’s “Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords” will highlight why Client Money Protection is of paramount importance to all landlords and tenants, as a rogue agent in Ilford fails to pass on rent or carry out sufficient referencing, leading to a sub-letting scam via a Romanian property website. When IT…
Read MoreTo hybrid or not to hybrid?
That is the question many estate agents are facing a market place where purple… and the like are changing the landscape and the traditional agent is left with a declining market share and decreasing fees. Do we stick or spin? I made the decision to spin some time ago and whilst I believe it will…
Read MoreLess than 2% of new house purchase loans are now taken out on an interest-only basis
News from the CML, Council of Mortgage Lenders, showcase the decline of interest-only mortgages in the UK with now only 2% being them in 2017 which is a fair drop from what was approximately 40% in 2017. “When we first started to collect this data in 2012, the regulatory concern was that interest-only loans…
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