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The Devil is in the Detail

Author: Mary Latham

5th December 2011, 14 years ago | 107

The Localism Act 2011 is another heavy piece of legislation and you might be forgiven for missing a very important...

Avoiding the Void

Author: Angus Ryan

28th November 2011, 14 years ago | 1

Void periods are an occupational hazard of letting property and something that the vast majority of landlords will experience at...

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Landlord Forced Tenants to Share Cramped Rooms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2011, 14 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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Fraudster Letting Agent Faces More Time in Jail

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A jailed letting agent who stole cash from landlords to fund his ailing business risks another 15 months in prison...

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Spoil-sport Councils Threaten Landlords with Olympic Fines

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th September 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Landlords and homeowners hoping to cash in on the London Olympics by renting to sports fans could be breaking the...

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The New Kids on the Block

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

12th September 2011, 15 years ago | 7

What do you think of the way councils operate in relation to housing in your area? Do you think they...

Letting Agent Disputes at a 20 year High, say AIIC

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th August 2011, 15 years ago | 1

After receiving the highest number of complaints against letting agents for 20 years, the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks have...

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SAFEagent closes on 1,000 member mark

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 1,000 letting agents have pledged to offer better protection to landlord and tenant monies by signing up to the...

Reducing the risk of a rogue tenant

Author: Lorna Rose

8th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Guest Blog from Lorna Rose of TenantID For some reason mortgage defaults increased during the first 3 months of this...

Many landlords are unaware of health and safety laws

Author: This article was written by guest author - Association of Independent Inventory Clerks

7th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

According to The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC), many landlords are still unaware of even basic health and safety...

Tenant demand keeps buy to lets full for 50 weeks a year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let homes are standing empty for less time as demand from tenants continues to hot up. Landlords can...

Tenants from Hell (Part 2). Every Landlord’s Nightmare

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Sequel to Frazer Fearnhead’s popular Guest Blog It’s amazing what you uncover upon conducting a check out inspection. Below are the...

Tenants from Hell. Every Landlord’s Nightmare

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th March 2011, 15 years ago | 4

It’s the situation every landlord dreads. You do the usual checks, the tenants seem like nice reasonable people but 6...

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Third of buy to let landlords have hiked rents this year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords are enjoying more income from the investment property portfolios, according to new figures from a leading...

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Buy to let rents static, but yields and arrears rise

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Tenants are paying an average £684 per month rent in February – up 3.9% on a year ago but no...

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5 more common reasons why inventories fail at adjudication

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th March 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Part 2 of a 2 part series.  Read part one here With over 23,500 deposit disputes last year year –...

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially in property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.  If we had known how every successive generation was going to hold us up to...

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Rant over tenants “Human Rights” continues

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Thank you to Chris Birdsall of TenantID for providing this Guest Blog which follows up nicely our report on 24th...

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Check your rental properties for common damages warns AIIC

Author: This article was written by guest author - Association of Independent Inventory Clerks

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is warning all landlords and management companies to check each rental property thoroughly...

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Consumer champion urges crackdown on rogue letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rogue letting agents that swindle landlords and tenants out of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year have come under...