Tag: Letting Agents

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SAFEagent Launches its Awareness Week

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

SAFEagent is launching a ‘week of activity’ beginning on May 14th until 20th May, aimed at raising awareness of the...

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£85,000 ‘missing’ as letting agent traded fraudulently

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Fraud investigators uncovered a ‘missing’ £85,000 from a failed letting agent that ran into financial problems after the supervising franchise...

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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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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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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...

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New call for government to regulate letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The government needs to take action to protect consumers by regulating unscrupulous letting and estate agents, urges the Royal Institution...

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Runaway letting agent disappears owing thousands

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th February 2012, 14 years ago | 16

Landlords and tenants are trying to track down a letting agent who has shut up shop leaving them thousands of...

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Buy to let fraudsters target landlords and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Police are warning about fraudsters who are ripping off landlords and tenants by posing as bogus letting agents. Scotland Yard...

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Letting Agent Stole £250,000 from Landlords and Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Letting agent Zulfiqar Hussain must pay his victims £250,000 or face three years in jail after stealing money from dozens...

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The 21st Century Letting Agent- Transparency

Author: Roger Lancaster

27th January 2012, 14 years ago | 3

So far in these articles we have looked at actions, activities and principles a 21st Century Letting Agency can adopt...

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HMO Landlady Becomes A Letting Agent!!

Author: HMOLandlady

25th January 2012, 14 years ago | 8

Last summer I met a very well heeled friend for lunch and listened as she commiserated her devastating investment losses...

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The 21st Century Letting Agent -The Day to Day Management

Author: Roger Lancaster

25th January 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Last issue we looked at how a 21st Century Letting Agent utilises new technologies and techniques to maximise the chance...

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Letting Agents Close Owing Landlords and Tenants Cash

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th January 2012, 14 years ago | 42

Midlands landlords are chasing rents and deposits from a letting agent who suddenly closed for business. Police are looking at...

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The 21st Century Letting Agent – Letting & Re-letting

Author: Roger Lancaster

23rd January 2012, 14 years ago | 3

In the last article we looked at how a 21st Century Agency can ensure the security of a landlord’s portfolio...

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The 21st Century Letting Agent – Protecting the Landlord’s Interests

Author: Roger Lancaster

19th January 2012, 14 years ago | 11

In the previous article I tried to make the point that a Letting Agent should act like an Asset Manager,...

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A 21st Century Letting Agent

Author: Roger Lancaster

17th January 2012, 14 years ago | 15

What should a landlord expect? ARLA have been complaining that the Government should regulate Letting Agents in the same way...

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Letting Agent Plans £8 Million Stock Market Float

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Lettings firm Belvoir intends to join the City’s Alternative Investment Market to raise capital for further expansion. The specialist lettings...

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Getting Letting Agents to Bid for Your Business

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th December 2011, 14 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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Letting Agent Ripped Apart by Social Media

Author: Mark Alexander

9th December 2011, 14 years ago | 109

I am writing this blog to balance out another article on this website and to raise a question about whether...

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Protecting a Rental Business Against Rogue Letting Agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

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