Tag: zoopla

Rising rents force tenants to become first time buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2023, 3 years ago | 3

While house price growth has slowed to 3%, the country’s high rents mean it is cheaper for tenants to buy,...

UK’s housing market is ‘defying expectations’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Demand for homes in the UK is at the highest since last October as a strong labour market and falling...

Landlords selling up will keep rent inflation high

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th March 2023, 3 years ago | 4

The latest rental market report from Zoopla offers tenants little hope that rents will begin falling any time soon –...

Home sellers are forced to slash prices to find buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th February 2023, 4 years ago | 0

Home sellers are having to slash asking prices in a bid to find a buyer, one house price index reveals....

Sellers will have to cut prices as buyers ‘wait-and-see’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th January 2023, 4 years ago | 0

Home buyers are holding off from entering the market and are now waiting to see if house prices and mortgage...

Home sellers cut prices to find a sale

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd December 2022, 4 years ago | 0

A major house price index says that the UK’s house price inflation is continuing to slow down – leading to...

Rocketing rents hurt single-earning tenants the most

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th December 2022, 4 years ago | 2

Single tenants are finding it harder to afford their rent with rocketing prices, one property platform reveals. In its latest...

Home sellers slash prices to find a buyer

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

Since September, 10% of homes for sale have had a price reduction of 5%, as buyer demand slumps by 44%,...

Zoopla Making £29.5m From Landlords and Tenants While Driving Rents UP

Author: Mary Latham

27th December 2013, 13 years ago | 23

I didn’t want to start a New Year talking about a negative issue but this is too important to ignore....

Property Research Tool

Author: Mark Alexander

11th December 2013, 13 years ago | 33

UK Property Research Tool What you need to know and where to find the information X This Property Research Tool...

What is an amateur landlord?

Author: Mark Alexander

19th October 2013, 13 years ago | 44

The phrase “amateur landlord” annoys me, I really wish people would stop using it. First off, if you were a...

Tenant Referencing Using Common Sense

Author: Mark Alexander

22nd August 2013, 13 years ago | 23

Common sense tenant referencing was pretty much the only option available when I first became a landlord and started letting property...

Locating the highest yielding locations for buy to let

Author: Readers Question

20th August 2013, 13 years ago | 22

As a relative newcomer to buy to let investment, but a seasoned hand at web development, I decided to build...

Is this “The DSS Landlords Ultimate Letting Package”?

Author: Mark Alexander

31st July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Letting Supermarket have launched a new scheme which they have labelled “The DSS Landlords Ultimate Letting Package”.  The package includes:-...

Buy to Let Property Sales – Partnering With Estate Agents

Author: Mark Alexander

24th July 2013, 13 years ago | 9

Earlier this year we spotted an opportunity to set up a buy to let Estate Agency. However, due to lack...

Rightmove moves to real time uploads

Author: Rayhan Rafiq Omar

17th July 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Every renter can profess to the frustration of seeing a property listed online and calling up just to be told...

Letting Supermarket provides massive cost saving opportunities for private landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

29th May 2013, 13 years ago | 7

I am a non-exec Director of Letting Supermarket, an ARLA member letting agency which we have been recommending to Property118...

Negotiating with estate agents

Author: Mark Alexander

22nd May 2013, 13 years ago | 42

Over the last few days a newbie property investor called Craig has been picking the brains of myself and Mary...

Globrix & findaproperty – advice to letting agents

Author: Mark Alexander

15th April 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Letting Agents using the Globrix and findaproperty logo’s on their websites might wish to consider updating their logo’s. The firms...

Has your property got the U-Factor?

Author: Mark Alexander

5th April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Forget streets with the X-factor, living on a street with a name beginning with the letter ‘U’  could mean your...

Advertise property to let, reference tenants, guarantee rent – one package

Author: Mark Alexander

2nd April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

How difficult can it be to advertise property to let on all the major rental portals, reference the tenants properly...