Tag: Letting Agent

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Rip Off Letting Agents Prey on Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th December 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Letting agents are ripping off tenants with high fees that are not revealed until they come to let a home,...

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Buy to Let Drought Pushes up Yields for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A shortage of homes to rent is pushing yields up for landlords – and the trend is likely to continue,...

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DPS Smoothing the Return of Deposits

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th December 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The Deposit Protection Scheme has made a raft of changes to make the returning and protection of deposits process easier...

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Drug Dealing Landlord is Worth Just £266

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A drug dealing landlord who planned to run a cannabis factory in a charity hostel has assets of just £266...

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Got Fences blown down or lost roof tiles? FREE help here >>>

Author: Mark Alexander

27th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

It was a bit breezy this weekend wasn’t it !!! Have you had calls from tenants to say their fence...

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Protecting a Rental Business Against Rogue Letting Agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Dozens of letting agents have gone bust in recent months leaving landlords struggling financial with unpaid rents and unprotected deposits....

Agents Need to Use Technology to Stay a Step Ahead

Author: Mark Reynolds

25th November 2011, 15 years ago | 11

One of the most important aspects of running a business is keeping one step ahead of the competition and providing...

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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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Letting Firm Probe Follows Student Complaints

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 40

A student landlord who charged a tenant £290 for cleaning two flies from a windowsill is under investigation by a...

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What if the PRS didn’t exist?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 5

By Guest Columnist Ben Reeve-Lewis I work for a council in London. I’m the landlord’s nemesis, the bogey man, a...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 74

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

There is a lot of focus and discussion on the Governments Housing Strategy released on Monday but there are plenty...

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Holding Court? Holding hands more like

Author: Nick Stott

22nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 5

As I sit here in a Civil Court’s waiting room waiting to be called (here pursuing a tenant on behalf...

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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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Booming Buy to Let Rents Keep on Rising

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let rents are still rising – but not as fast as over recent months. In October, renters paid...

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Buy to Let Landlords are Snapping Up More Big City Properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 25% of landlords have invested in more buy to let property this year, says the Association of Residential Letting...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 72

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Our second round up of the week includes a new guest writer, Nick Stott, along with headlines reporting on the...

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Should Landlords Pay For An Inventory?

Author: Frazer Fearnhead

16th November 2011, 15 years ago | 11

One thing I have learned from our experiences working with letting agents around the country is that they operate in...

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NALS – “No Agent Loves Sarcasm”

Author: Nick Stott

16th November 2011, 15 years ago | 15

Why does the general public have such a poor perception of agents? Is it because they are often image-conscious, relatively...

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Landlord Tax Cheats Targeted by HMRC Task Force

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords evading tax face a crack down from a new HM Revenue and Customs task force. Tax...

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Tenants Grab Buy to Let Homes in Record Time

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Tenants are snapping up buy to let homes within hours in some areas – although the average is 12.7 days,...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 69

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

We are delighted to introduce two new guest writers this week, HMO Landlady and Tulloch Priest. They have very kindly...