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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

Is it time to ditch licensing schemes?

Passports are fashionable in the rental sector right now.Last month we had deposit passporting and now we have the concept of a so-called rental property passport. This is the suggestion of Theresa Wallace, head of lettings customer relations at Savills and current c...

Read    17/07/2019

Looking forward to the flat of the future

Ever wondered what the flat of the future will look like? Laura Geode from American Proptech company Homebase has some interesting ideas. Most of them revolve around IoT or the internet of things. This means greater connectivity between the devices and appliances in ...

Read    16/07/2019

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

Fire safety - do you know the drill?

A devastating fire wrecked a block of flats in Barking at the beginning of June. No one died but the fire spread so fast that it could easily have led to loss of life, particularly as the residents reported that no alarms had sounded.Fire safety systems should always...

Read    21/06/2019

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

Tenant fees ban - the unintended consequences

The Tenant Fees Act came into effect in England on Saturday and there are already big question marks hanging over the new legislation. Both the government and the lettings industry want to make renting fair for tenants, but agents are not convinced the new Act will w...

Read    05/06/2019

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