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Getting Letting Agents to Bid for Your Business

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th December 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords can take the strain out of comparing letting agents to find the best deal with a new online service....

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House prices in Scotland Unmoved

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices in Scotland have remained fairly constant, offering only small rises for larger properties and slight drops in smaller...

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Britain in Denial Over Possibility of Falling House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Two-thirds of people believe house prices will not drop next year despite warnings from banks and governments that the global...

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1 in 7 Homes a Buy to Let … and the Number’s Growing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of buy to let properties has increased by 756,000 homes since 2007, according to the latest government housing...

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Tenants at Risk in 1 Million Shoddy Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

One in three buy to let homes have major safety hazards putting tenants at risk, claims a government survey of...

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Why are Social Housing Tenants Seen As Second Class Citizens?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

29th November 2011, 15 years ago | 44

As I read my way through developments in the housing world on a daily basis I see increasing reference to...

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House Sales Tumble to a 40 Year Low

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House sales are expected to slump to a 40-year low with no expectation of the market improving next year. Property...

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British Sharers Pay the Highest Rents in Europe

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Sharers pay an average £360 per month for a room – which is 5% more expensive than anywhere else in...

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Landlord Forced Tenants to Share Cramped Rooms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlord Pavlos Chatzinopoulos was fined £2,515 for making tenants share with cramped rooms with tenants they did not know. Swindon...

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Buy to Let Lenders Boast Booming Borrowing Figures

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages profits rose 12% to almost £81 million thanks to landlords building on their portfolios....

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Build-to-let Will Solve Britain’s Housing Needs, MPs Told

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Build-to-let funded by private investors and pension funds is the solution to the UK’s housing crisis, housing lobbyists have told...

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Desperate Home Sellers Ready to Agree Deep Discounts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Desperate sellers are ready to accept knock-down prices on homes for sale as financial problems and a lack of mortgages...

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Buy to Let Landlords Snubbed Under New Housing Deal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Government has launched a make-or-break housing strategy designed to boost the economy, create jobs and help people buy homes...

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Housing Strategy Key Points

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 3

The much awaited Government housing strategy was unveiled today with many seeing it not as the “radical and unashamedly ambitious...

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Possibility of Civil War in Greece?

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 15 years ago | 9

This week I attended an unofficial Bank of England briefing. This article is based on that meeting and informal discussions with other...

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EU Trying To Kill Buy To Let – sign the petition to STOP it now.

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 15 years ago | 100

The buy to let market will grind to a halt if EU proposals to change the way lenders hand out...

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Homes Under the Hammer Cost 20% Below Market Value

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Prices for homes sold at auction are running at about 20% below market value, according to the latest round-up of...

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Tell Tenants How to Deal with Emergencies, Urges NLA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Tenants need to know about how to cope in an emergency to protect rental properties from risk of damage in...