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Confidence in housing market is falling, say estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th May 2012, 14 years ago | 3

House price confidence is dropping away as prices fall and buyers melt away, according to estate agents. One in five...

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Drugs police raid a cannabis factory once every hour

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Drugs squads are raiding a cannabis factory nearly once every hour and seizing drugs worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Landlords are the wrong target for buy to let regulation

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd April 2012, 14 years ago | 7

Landlords are the wrong target for buy to let regulation, according to the latest behind-the-scenes thinking. Regardless of the rights...

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The Great PRS Licencing Debate

Author: Mark Alexander

20th April 2012, 14 years ago | 7

Whilst there were only 50 delegates at the event the speakers were all very high profile. The debating panel included...

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Rising number of tenants struggle to pay rent, says ARLA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Tenants are facing a financial struggle to pay their rents, according to the latest survey by the Association of Residential...

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It’s love not war between landlords and tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Deposit protection keeper Steve Harriott is promoting a love-in between landlords and tenants over the myth that they are constantly...

Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 110

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

This week’s edition features a round up of all the week’s articles. Neil runs through how to assess a mortgage...

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Meet Mark Alexander at the Property Business Show

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Mark Alexander has been campaigning to make it compulsory for letting agents to have professional indemnity insurance and bonding for...

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Article 8 Evictions – Human Rights?

Author: Mark Reynolds

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 5

Having read Mary Latham’s article about landlord’s not being able to evict due to human rights law, I have been giving...

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MP campaigns to ban ‘To Let’ boards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th April 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Rows of unsightly “To Let’ boards outside buy to let homes could be banned if MPs vote in favour of...

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Landlords claim deposit protection is rigged against them

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th April 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Tenant deposit protection is rigged against landlords and letting agents – while a large number of tenants are unaware of...

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Shocked Chancellor orders landlord tax scrutiny

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th April 2012, 14 years ago | 24

Shocked Chancellor George Osborne has ordered a closer scrutiny of buy to let tax reliefs after finding out that some...

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Landlords and Tenancy Deposit Schemes – A rocky relationship?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

With the tenancy deposit protection changes coming into force overnight, research by digital inventory platform Imfuna has found 0% of...

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Inventories, the easy way

Author: Glenn Ackroyd

5th April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

If you ask 2 different letting agents how they do inventories and condition reports, you’ll probably get 3 different answers....

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Green for go on new EPC laws for buy to lets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

It’s green for go for new-style energy performance certificates from April 6 and landlords or letting agents who flout the...

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ARLA guide for reluctant landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Letting agents reporting a rising number of homeowners renting out their properties because they cannot sell has more than doubled...

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LetAlliance expand to Northern Ireland

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

LetAlliance is rolling out its specialist services to the 200 letting agents across Northern Ireland for the first time as...

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2,000 student landlords warned over ‘poor’ standards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd April 2012, 14 years ago | 2

More than 2,000 Oxford landlords have had warning letters from the city council about repairs to carry out under the...

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Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 108

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The April 6th deadline is looming, so we’ve pieced together a round-up of the impending changes for landlords regarding deposit...

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Ombudsman boots out rent row letting agent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th March 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Letting agent Helen Gregory has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme after a rent row with a buy to...

Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 107

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The latest round up of news features the reaction to the National Planning Policy Framework from around the buy to...