- Written by: Graham Norwood
Vicky Spratt - whose blogging to highlight the various fees charged to tenants by letting agents triggered a campaign to get them banned - is to speak at next year’s Association of Residential Letting Agents conference. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector licensing scheme has come under fire from a trade body. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or landlords for housing an illegal immigrant while the presence of that person is down to “the government’s failure” in ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Liberal Democrat MPs in the Commons and the Lords have tabled motions aimed at stopping the Right To Rent policy, which the party labels “the worst kind of dog whistle politics.” ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a change in government policy any time soon. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The managing director of the mortgages division of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, says George Osborne’s three per cent stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties is nothing more than a “political stunt.” ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for the same article, in the Daily Telegraph, to be damning of the political party that the publication traditionally supports. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online over the issue of rent controls. ...
- Written by: Eddie Goldsmith
This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. ...
- Written by: Simon Shinerock
As estate agents, business people and just plain people for that matter, we can't help looking at the way our society is organised with a critical eye. As we get more experience, idealism often turns to cynicism at best and ...
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