Letting Agent Talk
Why buy-to-let is still worth it
Buy-to-let can be a great way to make use of property you can’t or don’t want to live in. It’s also a great way to make money without having to do a whole lot of work. Despite what you may have read about tax relief and proposed changes to the system, BTL is still a…
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Compare Letting Agent Fees
Don’t you just hate overpaying for something, then not getting a good service or product in return? If you’re a landlord looking for a letting agent, you’re obviously interested in letting agent fees and comparing the best performing agents. No doubt a good agent is of paramount importance. Wrong choices lead to bad tenants, vacant…
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Room rents rise 8% in the wake of Tenant Fee Act but seasonal demand decline hits some cities
Leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has released it’s Room Rental Index for the second quarter of 2019, looking at the cost of renting a room across the UK’s major cities. Ideal flatmate crunched the numbers from more than 29,000 room share listings on its site added between April and June and found that in…
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How the end of no-faults evictions will impact landlords
Over recent times, the term “no-faults evictions” has become a very contentious one. Those opposed to the concept paint a picture of families being dragged out of their homes by ruthless landlords who want to raise the rent as high as possible regardless of the consequences. Those in favour point to the fact many landlords…
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Real Estate Rental Business. How to Build Safe Platform
There’s a lot of profit in managing rental facilities, as long as the essentials are in place. These days that means building out credible platforms to assist the enterprise. Modern cloud portals are a robust solution because they allow customers and businesses to manage all their rental transactions seamlessly. Security Considerations for a Platform A…
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New Landlord Advice: Essential Support Services To Help You
The number of people taking up property investment has been rising year on year, with figures increasing by up to 5% annually. In the UK, there are now over 2.5 million landlords managing rental properties. There is great significance in this information, as it means the practice is seeing a large influx of first-time landlords…
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Let Alliance Transforms Tenant Referencing in Partnership with TransUnion
Let Alliance has completed a two-year strategic project that has resulted in redefining the way that tenant referencing works in the UK, with references now returned the same day. Until now tenant referencing across the lettings industry has relied upon tenant referencing companies accessing publicly available credit information only. This credit information is limited to…
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Tenant fee ban will reduce deposit fees by £2.9bn a year
The latest research by property compliance specialists, VeriSmart, has revealed the huge sum of money currently tied up in the private rental market across England and how this will change with the introduction of the tenant fee ban on the 1st June. VeriSmart analysed data from Gov.uk which shows that there are 4,530,000 tenants currently…
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Leeds is leading room rental growth, but London remains the most unaffordable
Leading flat sharing platform, ideal flatmate, has released its Room Rental Index for Q1 looking at the cost of renting a room across the UK’s major cities. ideal flatmate analysed the cost of thousands of spare rooms listed on its platform looking at the differing cost of renting across each major UK city, each borough…
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18.6m spare room surplus could be the solution to Britain’s broken housing market
Research by leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has looked at the excess number of spare rooms across the UK and how this surplus could address the UK’s property stock shortage. Using data from Twenty CI, ideal flatmate found that there are 30.5m dwellings in the UK, home to a total of 84.4m bedrooms. According…
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Top of the class – top social classes push rents up by 65%
The latest data by, the UK’s only combined lettings inventory and property compliance specialists, VeriSmart, has looked at what impact top tier social classes have on local rental prices. VeriSmart grouped thousands of postcodes by the percentage of the population classed within the NRS social grading of AB. A being upper middle class holding higher…
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Tenant Needs to Go? Everything Landlords Need To Know About Eviction
Evicting a tenant can be a last resort after numerous attempts at mediation have failed. In some cases it’s the last thing any landlord wants, but sometimes it is necessary, in other cases landlords move quickly to protect their investment. When your tenant has skipped out on paying rent for months on end, bashed in…
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Property Asset Management: Your Guide to Managing and Growing Your Property Portfolio
When you’re managing a property portfolio, you’re controlling some of the biggest assets anyone will ever have. That’s why it’s important that you have key strategies at the heart of your property management company. With this in place, you can generate income for your business by nurturing and learning from all your investments. Here’s how…
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Why rent guarantee insurance is great for letting agents and not just landlords
Rent guarantee insurance has proved to be a popular product with landlords. Most policies will cover all rent arrears and will even cover the legal fees to evict the tenants. Costs for 12 month policies can vary between £90-£180 approx, so it’s an absolute no brainer for landlords. Surprisingly, many letting agents aren’t really pushing…
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Wasted space – how much rent are you wasting on unnecessary furniture per square metre?
Latest research by leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has highlighted the cost of everyday household furniture when considering the space they occupy on a monthly rent per square metre basis. ideal flatmate looked at the cost of the average one-bedroom property and what this equates to per square metre, before attributing a monthly rental…
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