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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

Tenant Fees Act now in force

The Tenant Fees Act came into force in England on 1 June. This is a very important change in the law for everyone living and working in the private rented sector. The key change is that landlords and letting agents can’t charge tenants a fee for anything that isn’t l...

Read    04/06/2019

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

Section 21 changes: have your say today

Last week this blog looked at the problems of the proposal to scrap “no-fault” Section 21 evictions could cause for the rental sector that. The government proposes to effectively make tenancies open-ended, while strengthening the rights of landlords who want to recov...

Read    20/05/2019

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