Even in the current economic climate, homeowners continue to improve their properties. The only change is that everyone is looking for a ‘deal’, according to the leading property maintenance and refurbishment company, Aspect Maintenance (www.aspect-maintenance.co.uk). Press Release – 27 Feb 2009 William Davies, managing director at Aspect Maintenance, commented: “People are still spending money on [...]
Research from a property lettings website shows average rents are falling in most areas Francesca Steele, TimesOnLine.co.uk – 27 Feb 09 The general trend of rents remains downwards. But in locations where the supply of properties remains short, tenants – who assumed that they could bid prices down – are facing increases. Research from findaproperty.com [...]
Can Training Make a Difference? Download the Full Newsletter Despite reports of renewed sales surges and actual rises in property prices, overall prices are still on the decline, rents are coming under pressure and the UK economy is in a pretty dire state. Way over-optimistic government growth forecasts from last year will need to be [...]
Landlords renting out properties through agencies are not subject to financial checks. But when they cannot pay the mortgage their tenants are often evicted. Is that fair? Oliver Brett, BBC News – 26 February 2009 With repossessions on the increase, it is a problem more and more tenants are facing. But as Britain gets used [...]
The HSE is warning landlords about potentially unsafe gas installations in tenanted properties. This warning follows the prosecution of Shahid Hussain, who manages a family business that owns and rents out a number of properties in Burton-on-Trent. workplacelaw.net – 25 Feb 2009 The HSE started an investigation into the management of gas appliances in those [...]
The buy-to-let landladies named Property Women of the Year in early 2008 have done well, unlike sponsor Bradford & Bingley – it went bust Duncan Farmer, Mail on Sunday – 24 February 2009 This time last year, Bradford & Bingley hosted the Property Woman of the Year awards to recognise the achievements of buy-to-let landladies. [...]
A new kind of marketing service to help boost rents and residential property values in well-run established apartment buildings has been launched. Developed by apartment block marketing specialist Portako (www.portako.com), the service promises flat owners a permanent marketing communications programme that is as sophisticated and effective as those typically deployed by property developers to sell [...]
Despite some slightly better news from the housing market in recent weeks, we still expect 2009 to be a very difficult year and see little prospect of a significant improvement in the coming months. The economy is already in recession and is forecast to contract further over the first half of the year at least. [...]
Property specialist finds one third of homes advertised to rent online are no longer available Would-be tenants searching for their ideal home on the internet have a one in three chance of being disappointed because the property they would like to rent has already been let. This is the key finding of research[1] carried out [...]
Watch the BBC London, Inside Out programme on BBC iPlayer – this is a warning to all landlords about the existence of what the programme is calling, professional bad tenants – those who live in expensive accommodation, effectively for free, due to the inadequacies of our courts system – see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ht7tn/Inside_Out_London_18_02_2009/ addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.landlordzone.co.uk%2Fblog%2Fnews%2Fserial-bad-tenants-the-landlordaction-story’; [...]
