Industry Blogs
Nearing the end of his year as ARLA president, Tim Hyatt does not seem to have had much time to draw breath...
The London Assembly’s report, ‘Bleak Houses– Improving the London Private Rented Sector’, and some London mayoral candidates have totally missed the point when they say private landlords should issue longer-term tenancies...
Lettings agents have long been slaves to the paper chase. From getting a landlord’s signature, to chasing tenant references and completing a tenancy agreement, the lettings and property industry is traditionally very paper-heavy...
According to Pat Barber of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks, writing a blog on LAT, “a glossy inventory that relies heavily on photographs will be of little use in a dispute”...
News of the tough sentence recently handed down to an Oxford agent who misappropriated client monies – or rather, the heated debate that it engendered – raises a key issue for the lettings sector...
Self-service agencies are popping up all over the place and claiming they will change the face of lettings in 2012...
London has seven universities in the world’s top 200 university rankings, which is more than any other city in the world...
Thousands of people across the country are affected by changes to housing benefit effective from January 1...
We hear much about anti-social behaviour in the press, but rather less about what should be done to deal with it...
When tenancy deposit protection was first introduced by the Government in April 2007, two types of schemes were authorised...
I strongly believe that a custodial-only scheme is the future for tenancy deposit protection. It’s great the industry is starting to recognise the need for some sort of change with regard to deposits and even better with the current debates featuring on Letting Agent Today...
Citizens Advice has hit out at charges levied by letting agents and accused us of ripping off the public...
With an undeniable shift from buying to renting in the UK, we are presented with a new generation of tenants...
Surprisingly, perhaps, there are landlords who find they really can’t afford to be in buy-to-let because they have not budgeted for maintenance and repairs...
Britain may be a nation of animal lovers, but pet owners often struggle to find suitable accommodation...
All over the globe, in practically every sphere of business, successful companies have long embraced the concept of outsourcing – of farming out to specialist suppliers all those essentially back-office functions such as human resources, expense management, office buildings maintenance and security that are not absolutely core to their business model...
Alex Vinter: Blog It’s snakes and ladders in the rental world. Not too long ago renting was for the short term...
Squatting to be criminalised… finally! By Paul Shamplina, founder of Landlord Action In April, we presented our initial petition to 10 Downing Street calling for squatting to be criminalised...
Fees – and the way we charge them There has been much debate about the way letting agents charge their fees – and particularly whether or not they are entitled to charge for renewals...
Are letting agents falling behind in the technology stakes? We commissioned a research project recently, asking 100 letting agents a series of questions about technology – from how they use it today to how they intend to use it in future...
Should local councils become private letting agencies? Any effort to get vulnerable people into accommodation needs to be applauded...
Treat every renewal as a re-let. Whatever the reason, be it merely temporary tight-fistedness on the part of mortgage lenders (as our colleagues on the sales side would have everyone believe), or – just possibly – the final collapse of Britain’s 40-year love affair with property ownership, the growing mis-match between demand and supply in the private rental sector means that tenants are looking to stay longer in their homes...
The PPS Show goes off with a bang! This week saw the PPS Show at Olympia. With over 4,500 visitors, it was a pretty successful affair...
The latest report from HM Land Registry piles yet more statistics on to our collective knowledge of the housing market in England and Wales...
The EAT and LAT sites have been full of stories recently about online review sites being set up where customers can rate or slate their agents...
Holding deposits Despite the fact that only 23 of the 1,262 complaints received by The Property Ombudsman during 2010 were specifically related to holding deposits, he nevertheless felt the need to highlight this particular group of complaints in his end of year report...
Is the Ombudsman a eunuch? Of course, I do not mean that personally, as I have the highest regard for the Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, and his hard-working office...
What is wrong with environmental health departments? The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has said that around one million privately-let homes (one-third of all private rented properties) in England are dangerous...
It’s tempting, particularly for agents new to the lettings business, to see property management as little more than a convenient cash cow...
Checking the identity of landlords and tenants might seem like an unnecessary chore – a classic piece of meaningless Government red tape...
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- Council on track to license every single rental property........
- Investors upbeat about buy-to-let prospects........
- We're not in competition with ARLA, says SAFEagent chairman........
- More landlords breaching the law as complaints rise ........
- Public sector cuts hit efforts to bring rogue landlords to justice........
- Council bans £40,000-plus couples from waiting list........
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- Property Management Software - Get the software that fits your needs........
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- ARPM Property Management simplifies Pre Tenancy Administration........
- Est8pro- the New Integrated Marketing & Management Platform...........
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