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11 January 2021
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The Welsh government has given details of the rentals and sales house moving process during the 16 day lockdown beginning 6pm on Friday...
20 October 2020
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The Welsh Government wants to reform compulsory purchase powers - meaning any landlord with a long-term empty property in the region...
20 October 2020
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A new free-to-list ‘lifestyle’ app that aims to be bigger than Rightmove says it will pay lettings agents when renters switch...
14 October 2020
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Pressure is building on the UK government to ensure England follows the example of both Scotland and Wales and creates a...
02 September 2020
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A league table has been drawn up to show which large cities in the UK have the highest demand for investment...
25 August 2020
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The Welsh Government has temporarily increased the notice period landlords must provide from three months to six months to end Assured...
24 July 2020
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The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...
18 June 2020
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One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...
29 April 2020
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Home offices aren’t all about laptops and wifi routers….they’re about gorgeous views too. So thanks to Marc Morrish, a director and auctioneer...
10 April 2020
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A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...
02 March 2020
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Leaders Romans Group has snapped up another independent - this time the three office Welsh agency Moginie James. Moginie James - owned by...
03 February 2020
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A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...
21 January 2020
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A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
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The Welsh Government says it’s going to issue clarifications to some issues before the end of this year; if agreed by...
13 November 2019
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Northwood franchisees have completed four acquisitions, taking the total this year to eight. As part of the Belvoir Group, Northwood and has...
29 October 2019
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The housing association Cadwyn is calling for private sector landlords with properties in Cardiff to lease their houses to those on...
15 August 2019
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A Cardiff lettings agent claims to have become the first in Wales to stop charging fees to new and existing tenants. CPS...
07 August 2019
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The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
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With less than four weeks to go to the start date of the Welsh Tenant Fees ban, the Association of Residential...
06 August 2019
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Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...
31 July 2019
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The Welsh Government has started a formal consultation on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section...
15 July 2019
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The owners of Cardiff’s branch of national sales and lettings agency Martin & Co have more than doubled their managed portfolio...
05 June 2019
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March 19 has been set as the next date for the Welsh equivalent of the Tenant Fees Ban Bill to be...
18 February 2019
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A new study suggests that rental properties now account for 40 per cent of the available housing stock. Looking at the final...
21 January 2019
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A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...
29 October 2018
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Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...
08 October 2018
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A two bedroom furnished flat can cost up to 21 per cent more to rent than a comparable property that’s unfurnished. Research...
24 September 2018
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The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...
14 June 2018
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Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...
06 February 2018
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A lettings agency operating in Cardiff has expanded its business and now donates 15 per cent of profits to a local...
02 February 2018
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A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...
01 February 2018
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Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance. Both cities enjoy average rental...
29 January 2018
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Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...
21 November 2017
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A lettings management agency in Cardiff says it has boosted business by a quarter in the past year, mostly thanks to...
01 September 2017
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The Welsh Government’s communities and children secretary, Carl Sargeant, is calling on tenants to have their say on proposals to ban...
22 August 2017
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The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...
21 July 2017
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A buy to let investor who ignored the controversial Rent Smart Wales scheme faces a bill of more than £3,500 for...
17 July 2017
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A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...
16 March 2017
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ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...
06 March 2017
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Belvoir Cardiff has completed the acquisition of a management portfolio of 130 rental properties. The purchase of all properties managed by Letwise...
24 January 2017
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Letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - already banned in Scotland and now likely to be banned in England according to...
09 January 2017
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The controversial Welsh private lettings sector scheme called Rent Smart Wales had around 65 per cent of agents and landlords register...
28 November 2016
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Rent Smart Wales, a controversial scheme that require letting agents to be trained, comes into effect today after a troubled lead...
23 November 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association has roasted the enforcement policies and provisions for the controversial Rent Smart Wales initiative which begins in...
10 November 2016
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It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...
20 October 2016
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A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...
16 September 2016
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Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...
15 September 2016
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Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...
08 September 2016
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The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...
06 September 2016
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A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...
01 August 2016
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Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...
13 May 2016
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A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...
09 May 2016
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A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...
08 April 2016
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New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...
23 March 2016
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Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...
16 December 2015
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A bid to force letting agents to remove To Let boards from properties in areas of a city with high numbers...
03 November 2015
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A letting agent is warning of apparently inaccurate information being sent out as part of a new agent and landlord accreditation...