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Keeping your clients data secure and compliant

 

Over the years, advancements in cloud software and the associated technology have enabled us to do things with ever increasing ease and forever decreasing cost. Fortunately, gone are the days of prohibitively high licence fees, packages that can’t be used remotely and systems can’t talk to each other. Instead, it now seems there are a…

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Tuath Housing Association to redevelop Ellis Court in to Social Housing

 

An impressive and now vacant Victorian Dublin property (built in the 1880’s) is to be redeveloped in to social housing at a cost of €6 million by Tuath Housing Association. 22 units are to be created within ‘Ellis Court’ which was a former Dublin City Council building that has sat derelict since being damaged by…

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Skipton International UK buy-to-let mortgages now available to foreign nationals

 

Skipton International has today [18 February] announced that it will be extending its UK buy- to-let mortgage proposition to include applications from non-UK nationals resident overseas. Previously the offshore lender only offered UK buy-to-let mortgages to British expatriates. This news follows the decision to considerably expand Skipton International’s investment property lending criteria over the last…

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Housing association Jigsaw Homes to build 50 new homes

 

Tameside council have received a proposal to build 50 new homes next to the listed Cavendish Mill, off Cavendish Street from Housing association Jigsaw Homes which will include an apartment block and a range of three storey houses. The site which is just 6 miles East of Manchester was recently described a somewhere not to be…

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Bennett Homes continues its shared equity initiative

 

Bennett Homes are an award winning company building high quality traditional new homes in East Anglia for more than 70 years. It is continuing with the drive to offer affordable housing to the community in 2019 with shared equity schemes available on two and three bedroom houses at The Signals, Watton, and on two bedroom apartments at…

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Grabbing the community housing opportunity

 

Kit Malthouse, housing minister, has announced £6 million of funding for the Community Led Homes Programme. Funding of up to £10,000, managed by four charities, will be provided for groups to cover start-up costs. A further £3.5 million will be made available for technical advice and guiding communities through the house building process. The funding…

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Jeremy Corbyn – Can I buy a £650,000 flat for just £162,500 please?

 

A few damning headlines in the national press, and quite rightly so in my mind, in fact when is the investigation due please on Jeremy Corbyn’s son who has been reported to have purchased a 2 bedroom flat in London for £162,500 when the others in the block are valued at £650,000 and then uses…

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Housing affordability improves at fastest rate for eight years

 

National average price of newly-marketed property rises by 0.7% (+£1,981) this month, consistent with the average 0.6% February uplift in the previous two years With the average annual rate of growth at only 0.2% (+£714), annual wage growth of 3.4%* is now outstripping asking prices at the fastest rate since 2011, improving buyer affordability New…

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Strategic housing investment is another positive step

 

James Brokenshire has announced £250 million for housing deals, which includes £157 million for infrastructure funding for roads and green spaces. The money will help deliver a range of projects across the UK, including 10,000 homes on 7 Ministry of Defence sites and more than 1,500 homes at the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park. The…

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Council demands extra £360,000 following Right-to-Buy blunder

 

Right-to-Buy which many will see as a completely out of date, unfair and a drain to the UK housing stock hits the headlines again with Islington Council, who gave away at a discount one of their flats on Islington street, now demanding at extra £360,000 following a blunder on ‘bedrooms’. Two years later the council saw the…

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Founded in 1825 – Cheffins is changing…

 

Cheffins has a long and prestigious history, with seven offices across the south-east of England and an array of services offered Residential Sales & Lettings, Property Auctions, Commercial Property, Planning, Machinery & Vintage Auctions and Fine Art. Despite a ‘senior’ position in UK estate agency the brand has gone for a fresh new re-brand and new…

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Elite Conveyancing forms partnership with Wilford Smith Solicitors

 

The quality-focused, national conveyancing provider, Elite Conveyancing has formed a key strategic partnership with Sheffield and London based Wilford Smith Solicitors which will allow conveyancing lawyers the opportunity to become self-employed Consultants. Essentially, Wilford Smith will become the umbrella brand for a new breed of self-employed lawyers, providing all of the necessary professional and regulatory…

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love2move announces a new crowdfunding raise

 

Only two years following its Valentine’s Day launch back in 2017, a Preston based hybrid estate agency platform, love2move, is looking to raise £120,000 via crowdfunding in order to expand its network of agencies using its service. Primarily a concept to combat online estate agents in that it offers traditional style agents with the proprietary tools…

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Noel Gallagher knocks £Millions off the asking price of his London Mansion

 

Noel Gallagher hopefully will not look back in anger as he knocks off £3 million on his London mansion in desperation of trying to find a buyer. Just how crazy are prices in London? Well Noel Gallagher will certainly be one property owner to study as following a recent £2.5 million knocked off the asking price…

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Property Bosses ordered to pay back £182,000

 

A recent press release on the official gov.uk website highlights the case of a husband and wife team of directors of ‘London and Berkshire Limited‘ who were reported to have taken out payments of at least £182,000 during an investigation by the Official Receiver following the company’s shut down in June 2015. “Husband and wife,…

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