Search Results for: Tenant Fees Act
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Regional round-up
Each month we visit three agents across the country to discover what is happening in their businesses and local markets. This month we visit Norfolk, Gwynedd and London.
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Agencies & People
Resi Roundtable
Let Alliance invited Chester agents to meet to discuss current issues in the property market. Sheila Manchester reports.
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Supplier advice
Turn over a new (green) leaf
John Davidson says that agents have a great opportunity to help landlords and buyers benefit from the Great British Green Deal.
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Developing portfolios
Pitiful savers rates, rising rents and low cost mortgages are fuelling demand for buy-to-let investments, presenting agents with revenue making opportunities, as Marc Da Silva reports.
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Features
On Target?
On 26th January 2015, OnTheMarket.com, a major new UK property portal, finally launched. And the reaction is...
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Manifestos, markets and mansions
Election fever is here. The countdown has begun. Jeremy Leaf reviews pre-manifesto statements to see what could happen on 7th May.
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Latest property news
COMMENT
This year a bright and harsh light has been shone onto the letting industry. Agents now face compulsory redress scheme registration and there’s a voluntary code for property management. And model tenancies are in the pipeline too. These all pale into insignificance compared to lettings fees. Agents, of course, have been charging registration and application fees for decades and most feel that they are a legitimate charge for the paperwork, reference checks and deposit chasing that tenancies require. But in recent months a well co-ordinated campaign to abolish these fees has been underway, led by housing charity Shelter, which has persuaded Labour to pledge to abolish lettings fees for tenants in the private rented sector if it forms a government after the next election. Unless the industry comes up with a solution the criticism will not go away.” It is not difficult to see why Ed Milliband wants to join in. Campaign organisations such as Generation Rent have painted a national picture of low paid tenants, high rents and young tenants being ‘ripped off’ by landlords and agents – all natural territory for Labour. The response of the industry thus far has been defence and it’s been a successful tactic…
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Stress in the PRS
11,000 tenant evictions in three months – will the problems for landlords and tenants worsen in 2015, asks Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action.
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Associations & Bodies
Information, reputation, accreditation
Professional industry bodies support their members and act as a kitemark that gives the public peace of mind, as Marc Da Silva reports.
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Associations & Bodies
OnTheMarket – it’s finally here!
OnTheMarket.com, the much anticipated new property portal from Agents’ Mutual, finally launched on Monday, going live with simple, fast and state-of-the-art website that adapts seamlessly to fit the screen of any device being used to view it. Designed to disrupt the portal business and break the ‘duopoloy’ held by Rightmove and Zoopla, OnTheMarket, the new industry-owned portal, which only features properties marketed by high street agents but not those with an online-only presence, is causing quite a stir in the property market, with various arguments and legal threats already being made. OnTheMarket.com will aim to challenge the duopoly for the portal top spot while giving estate agents the opportunity to regain control of their online advertising costs. Ian Springett (left), Chief Executive of OnTheMarket.com, said, “We are proud to present OnTheMarket.com as a much-needed competitor in the online property search market. We have launched an outstanding website using the latest technologies which presents properties in the best possible light for consumers and avoids unnecessary clutter.” The new portal, solely owned by the agents that list on the website, with around 4,600 estate agency offices already signed up, has had a dramatic early impact on the market with its ‘one other…
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