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Daily property news in the UK residential sector focused on estate and letting agency, property auctions and property managers.
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Labour MP launches broadside against bad landlords
Labour MP Tom Hayes says the rental market is ‘broken’ and Renters’ Rights Bill will fix it by rooting out…
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WARNING: Labour’s renting reforms will force landlords to ‘gazunder’
Goodlord CEO explains how major unintended effect of the Renters' Rights Bill will be to distort the market for rent…
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Conveyancers ‘must not take shortcuts to beat Stamp Duty cut-off’
A leading compliance consultant says solicitors risk falling prey to financial criminals if they cut corners in the race to…
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Big Your Move franchise holder in NE buys lettings agency
13-branch Your Move franchise holder has acquired Hymers and Ryle Residential for an undisclosed sum.
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Industry figure reveals little-known TV role and brutal redundancy
Chris Watkin reveals his role in a 2009 TV advert and the painful process of headcount reduction at the then…
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Landlord ‘companies’ now most common type of firm in UK
Latest data from Hamptons shows the extraordinary rise in the use of limited companies mainly by high-tax-rate paying landlords seeking…
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Leading surveyor welcomes plans to end ‘feudal’ leasehold system
Dorian Wragg of Bruton Knowles says Labour's ambitions are laudable, but wonders if leaseholds will want to take on the…
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Council cock-up helps landlord bat off rent repayment claim
Pressure group Justice for Tenants pressed ahead with HMO licensing case even after Southwark Council admitted that it was to…
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Leading lawyer says new PRS database to prove costly for landlords
Mortgage firms and the taxman will be taking a keen interest in the new landlord database and the transparency it…
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Over half a million transactions caught in Stamp Duty logjam
Claims is made by Rightmove's Colleen Babcock, who says some 74,000 of those hoping to complete before April 1st will…
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