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“Wild West” rental market
“Wild West” was how the London rented homes market was described during a five way debate at the London’s Guildhall on tuesday evening staged by the Evening Standard. Landlords were accused in a heated debate of cheating the public who were forced to pay inflated rents due to the capital’s housing shortage. The five in…
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Marsh & Parsons have joined raterAgent.
Marsh & Parsons have joined raterAgent, further emphasising the value that the new rating and review website brings to quality estate agents. Marsh & Parsons’ Marketing Director, Beth Hilson, said, “Obtaining customer reviews is a real focus for Marsh & Parsons and raterAgent is a great new service, which fits really well with our current…
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Campaigners target Property Awards
The Annual Property Awards in London on tuesday evening were disrupted by a group of campainers, it was reported that the group were chanting “Social housing is a human right” and held banners with slogans about social cleansing and empty houses” Protesters blocked off the main doors to the Park Lane Hotel forcing guests to…
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Lib-Dems earmark second homes
Wealthy second home owners have been earmarked by the Lib-Dems for an increase on their council tax bills if they return to Govenrment after the General Election. According to report out today Nick Clegg would give local councils the authority to charge up to 200% council tax in an effort to put off those looking…
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Rightmove asking prices up
The average UK asking price rose 4.7 per cent year-on-year in April according to Rightmove in a recent report. The annual rate of inflation fell from 5.4 per cent in March but April’s average asking price is the highest on record. Just under one month until the election and there is a record demand for…
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New chief marketing officer for Zoopla
Zoopla Property Group has appointed Gareth Helm as chief marketing officer , Gareth formerly from MoneySuperMarket, TravelSuperMarket and MoneySavingExpert has been appointed Cheif Marketing officer so as to increase brand awareness. According to a recent report Alex Chesterman, CEO and founder said: “We are delighted to welcome Gareth to our team.”His wealth of marketing experience and the…
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New mortgage rate low
A new low for mortgage rates has been announced by the HSBC offering deals at 1.99% on a five year fixed deal, which is just about the expected duration of the next parliament, on the face of it this appears an amazing deal, however borrowers will have to put down a 40% deposit. This low…
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Your vote counts
Just 18 days to go to the General Election and each of the political parties are making their final plays to pick up on those undecided voters or change the minds of those decided voters, as always Housing is the issue we look at here on EANUK. Today in Breaking News I want to highlight…
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Shambles of a debate
Last night we had another of those TV debates, both party Leaders who are presently in Government were not involved, by the way that had been pre-agreed sometime prior. Well what I saw was no more than a work place row, the three ladies were almost in agreement with each other most of the time…
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Landlords under the spotlight
A new scheme for tenants to check their private landlords has been launched by the National Landlords Association, it was announced by Richard Lambert CEO of the NLA at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual South West Conference yesterday. The scheme is voluntary and will enable tenants to check if their landlord is accredited. Mr…
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UK House price growth
House prices are on the move up according to various reports, according to the mortgage lender Halifax house prices rose more strongly than expected last month and now the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) monthly house price balance rose to +21 in March. These reports supported by Bank of England data showing that last…
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possible legal challenges
Conservative plans as outlined in their manifesto, that would force Housing Associations to sell off homes at a fraction of their value is ruffling a few feathers to say the least, infact it has been reported that there would be legal challenge against any such move. It is still neck and neck at the top…
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Green Manifesto
The Green Party has launched its General Election manifesto, a quick scan and one would think they are living in fairyland, to be fair it would be wonderful if the world could operate with such well founded ideals, the truth is it does not, we are a market economy and there is only so much…
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Manifesto full of promises
Manifesto,Manifesto and Manifesto, we’ve had the Conservatives and Labour, today we have UKIP and Lib-Dem, the green party are putting theirs out on line, a confetti of promises which will all have to be looked at again on the basis that no party will have an outright majority, so they are all promises with a…
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House prices outside London
House prices UK wide are predicted to outperform those of London for 2015 with increases of 1.5% nationwide but a dip of 3.6% in London. This change of trend in price performance will be the first time in six years that London does not lead the way in property price increases. The CEBR were quoted…
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