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Be wary of Letting Agents Pushing Rightmove Premium Listings

Author: Glenn Ackroyd

16th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Rightmove Premium Listings ‘Do they work?’ Rightmove themselves state that their own research indicates that properties with a “Premium Listing”...

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Business Booms for Letting Agents as Buy to Let Thrives

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

The thriving buy to let market is driving a letting agent boom as firms respond to increasing demand from tenants...

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Property is a Pension for 80% of Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Eight out of 10 landlords plan to supplement their pension income from letting property, according to the latest research by...

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Letting Agent Signs up 685 New Would-be Tenants Every Day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

About 500,000 new tenants have registered to rent buy to let homes over the past two years with just one...

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Will Tenant Passports Help Renters & Housing?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 15 years ago | 4

We have witnessed a variety of different challenges which have impacted upon the housing market at different times and in...

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RLA Counter Shelter’s Five Point Plan

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

– News Sourced by Property118 News Team – Following Shelter’s five point plan to step up its fight against rogue...

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Buy to Let Set to Take Over as the New Social Housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

News Sourced by Property118 News Team The rise of buy to let is more about the decline of social housing...

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Cloud Over Builders may have Silver Lining for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Buy to let looks to continue to prosper as surveyors presented a drab picture of the construction industry. The government...

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Best Places to Grab a Discount on House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let investors searching for homes offering the best value need to look north, according to online portal Zoopla....

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Rents are Lower than Most Landlords Believe, Claims Belvoir

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 2

Too many self-interest groups are inflating the real rents buy to let landlords are picking up, claims letting specialist Belvoir....

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Chance to Have your Say About Regulating Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 9

Time is running out for buy to let investors in Wales who wish to make their feelings known about proposals...

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HMRC Loses Key Holiday Let Tax Case

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2012, 15 years ago | 4

The tax man has lost a key case that allows holiday let owners claim business property relief against inheritance tax....

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Ban for ‘Unfair’ Sale and Rent Back Firms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Firms buying homes and renting them back to struggling home owners who are often trying to avoid repossession have stopped...

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House Prices Drop Slightly in Scotland

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

House prices in East and Central Scotland have fallen over the past three months according to the latest house price...

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City Landlords Turn Empty Bank Offices into Luxury Flats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Hard pressed landlords are looking at switching tough to let offices in the square mile to swish apartments for City...

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Peterborough is the Buy to Let Star of the East

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords in Peterborough are enjoying the best rental returns of anywhere – even the flying high yields in London, according...

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London Council Opens Letting Agency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2012, 15 years ago | 9

A London council has set up the first local authority full management lettings agency for rental homes in the capital....

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Fight Fraud by Taking your Property Ex-Directory

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Live away property owners are urged to go ‘ex-directory’ in an anti fraud campaign by the Land Registry. In a...