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The dreaded day has arrived, today will be the day when you find out whether that difficult Tenant, who is always in arrears with their rent has paid – and guess what, they haven’t! Now it’s time to once again pick up the telephone to the Landlord to advise that the rent has not come in and as usual, there will be a barrage of questions and accusations made by the Landlord who at this stage is truly frustrated and is finding it hard to pay two mortgages...

If you Google “property management software” you get a plethora of results, and it very soon can become overwhelming as to which option would be the best for your business...

This week’s SAFEAgent awareness week has received enormous support. Citizens Advice included SAFEagent information in its new ‘Paying the Rent’ toolkit, an internal resource for its advisers...

ARLA is the best known of the agency bodies to landlords. But only a handful have ever heard of SAFEagent – underlining the need for ongoing publicity among consumers...

A bid has been made to the Government for £250,000 funding to create apprenticeships within the lettings industry...

Belvoir Lettings, the franchise network which recently listed on AIM, says it met or exceeded all its performance targets for last year...

The council aiming to be the first authority in England and Wales where every single private rental property is licensed has announced its first milestone, with the blanket licensing of one complete ward...

Property investors remain positive about the outlook for the buy-to-let market. According to the latest Landlord Survey conducted by specialist lender CHL Mortgages, nearly three-quarters (71%) of respondents are positive about the prospects for the buy-to-let market, with only 5% feeling negative...

John Paul Getty, known as one of the Richest men of all time once said: “If it appreciates buy it, if it depreciates, lease it” At Cars4Agents we fully believe in John’s quote and can prove to you that leasing is certainly the way forward...

Tenants v Landlords

Weekly Tenant online hunt stats

This is the first of several posts covering the subject of Tenants Vs Landlords; the data used for this is taken from LettingWeb’s site statistics...

Average rental prices on Lettingweb

Lettingwebsite statistics, published on a weekly basis, can be used to determine trends in the residential letting market from year to year or season to season...

This is the first of several posts covering the subject of average rental prices, the data used has been taken from the properties let by Lettingweb on a weekly basis, and can be used to show trends in rental prices from year to year...

Lettings offices can be busy places with a never ending ‘to do list’. Firstly there’s the need to source new Landlords and then there’s the race to find a Tenant for the new instruction...

City spotlight w/c 30th April

Est8pro- the New Integrated Marketing & Management Platform Aimed Specifically At The Independent Real Estate Professional & Smaller Real Estate Agency...

All statistics are based on rental properties advertised on Lettingweb, which run into the hundreds of thousands over the past decade; however weekly sample sizes are often much smaller...

SAFEagent is not in competition with ARLA and has no plans to dispense with the services of NALS as its administrator, SAFEagent chairman John Midgley has said...

A letting agent has discovered that private landlords across its region are increasingly in breach of the law...

Public sector cuts mean that councils can no longer afford to crack down on rogue landlords. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health did a survey of local authorities, which uncovered a falling number of prosecutions of bad landlords...

The private rented sector is poised for growth after one council announced that couples earning over £40,000 a year will no longer be eligible for a council house...