February 24, 2010 on 6:07 pm | In News | No Comments
The RICS report into Transparency in professional fees raises the following points, which the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) is in firm agreement with: – RICS calls for further regulation of letting and managing agents in the PRS which we have strongly supported. – RICS is also [...]
February 24, 2010 on 6:04 pm | In News | 1 Comment
Leaders, the UK’s leading independently owned letting specialists, have been advising their landlords in detail about the government’s new boiler scrappage scheme to help as many as possible to benefit from it, and to help reduce their tenants’ energy bills and CO2 emissions. The scheme, launched in January 2010, gives homeowners in England, including private [...]
February 23, 2010 on 1:56 pm | In News, Newsletters | 2 Comments
Pest Control for Landlords Download the Full Newsletter Editorial: As the government publish yet another report into the Private Rented Sector (PRS), this time by the Treasury (Investment in the UK private rented sector Feb 2010), it would seem obvious from reading it that they are looking to the sector to give much needed relief [...]
February 23, 2010 on 12:51 pm | In News | 1 Comment
UK real estate industry disappointed with results of year long study into estate agents PropertyWire.com – Tuesday, 23 February 2010 UK real estate industry disappointed with results of year long study into estate agents OFT real estate study Home buyers and sellers urgently need an alternative to traditional estate agents to shake up the sector [...]
February 19, 2010 on 7:33 pm | In News | 2 Comments
A government bid to break up student living communities around the UK could develop into one of the most sinister social threats since apartheid – warns an influential professional body for the country’s private sector landlords. The Residential Landlords Association – whose members own over 100,000 private rented properties throughout the UK – is concerned [...]
February 15, 2010 on 1:01 pm | In News | No Comments
Landlord Action are currently working with a national newspaper to highlight the increasing problem of landlords who are falling foul of overcrowding in their rented property. The paper are looking for case studies where this has happened, which is where we need your help. You don’t have to put your name or address to the [...]
February 11, 2010 on 12:21 pm | In News | No Comments
Buy-to-let lending continues to increase after a severe decline in the first half of 2009, new figures show. Chris Marshall, www.citywire.co.uk – 11 February 2010 While new lending rose for the second consecutive quarter in the last three months of 2009 – with 25,800 new loans in Q4 compared to Q3’s 23,700 – this was [...]
February 10, 2010 on 6:29 pm | In News | 1 Comment
Experienced investor and author David Lawrenson explains: In a recent blog post I said, “It still amazes me how some people blindly believe what they are told by firms who push residential property investments.” I then went on to list 6 things that any investor using a third party property firm should do as part [...]
February 10, 2010 on 6:01 pm | In News | No Comments
8th February 2010 – Letting agents are more optimistic about the future of the market than they were almost a year ago despite the continued lack of financing for buy-to-let mortgages, according to HomeLet. HomeLet, the market-leading tenant referencing and specialist insurance provider to the lettings industry, conducted an independent customer satisfaction survey in December [...]
February 10, 2010 on 5:46 pm | In News | 1 Comment
09-02-2010 – Leaders, the UK’s largest independent letting specialist, is reporting an increase in demand for rental accommodation at the start of 2010, with demand outstripping supply in parts of Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Dorset, where the firm has a total of 42 branches. Says Leaders’ managing director, Paul Weller: “Despite the [...]
