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Making money from short-term lets? Check your lease first!

Many of us now use short-term lets to pay for our holidays or to make a regular income. As we’re right in the middle of the holiday season you might be tempted to give it a go. But before you do - think again. Here’s a cautionary tale for renters or leaseholders thin...

Read    13/08/2019

Renting - what do you think about it?

Despite all the bad press that renting often seems to attract, most people are happy with their rented home and have no complaints about their landlord. This is the good news for the rented sector from the latest English Housing Survey Private rented sector report, p...

Read    19/07/2019

Deposit passporting - have your say

In June, we blogged about the idea of rental deposit passporting. The idea is to make it easier for renters to transfer deposits directly between landlords when moving from one property to the next, Housing Secretary James Brokenshire MP has now announced a Call for ...

Read    11/07/2019

PlanetRent: We make rental deposit management easier

Good news for tenants today. In future, it could be made easier to free-up rental deposits when moving from one property to another via "deposit passporting". Speaking at a major housing conference in Manchester, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said this was ...

Read    27/06/2019

The focus is now on property management - but make sure you get it right!

Letting agents have been told today, that by not including property management in their services, they could be losing out on “thousands of pounds of potential income”.New research from outsourcing supplier ARPM, reported in Letting Agent Today, shows that many agent...

Read    17/06/2019

How can letting agents add value?

The tenant fees ban means a massive loss of income for letting agents. Landlord website Goodlord estimates the loss at around £200 million in turnover each year. That’s a big blow.UK landlords are already reeling from a series of tax and regulation blows. So letting ...

Read    06/06/2019

What helps make a good letting agent?

We often see, on X formerly known as Twitter, an ‘eviction notice’. Hard to know if this is real or just fake news but if this is a genuine notice from a letting agent to their tenant - pink felt tip aside - there are so many reasons why this is completely unacceptab...

Read    24/05/2019

Stay put - when is it safe to leave?

Stay put policies have really come under scrutiny in recent months. In a high-rise block the concept is sound - but only if all the many aspects that add up to successful compartmentalisation are in place. This means sub-dividing buildings into a number of compartmen...

Read    06/03/2019

Know your onions - and your tomatoes!

One Scottish letting agent was caught out recently when she found a tenant growing what she thought was cannabis in the bedroom of a rented property in West Lothian. In fact, the letting agent was left red-faced when the plants turned out to be tomatoes! However, the...

Read    05/03/2019

Don't forget the smoke alarm!

Landlords and letting agents are the target of a new smoke alarm awareness campaign launched this week. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is promoting ‘Let it, don’t forget it’ in a new video urging private sector landlords and letting agents to make sure smoke ...

Read    04/03/2019

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