deposits
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Latest property news
Letting agents accused of cashing in as interest on deposits ‘rockets’
Reports suggest agents are earning more than £80 million on interest from tenant deposits.
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Features
Safe as houses
Tenant deposits used to be pretty straightforward –looking after a pile of cash – but these days there is a lot more to it, as Charlotte Flake explains.
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Don’t believe the naysayers. Tenants who ‘zero deposit’ are better off in the long run
Tenants who choose alternative deposit schemes are more likely to fall into arrears? Reposit boss Ben Grech says that just doesn’t stack up.
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Rebecca Marsh
When is a deposit not a deposit?
When it’s not cash... possibly. The Property Ombudsman, Rebecca Marsh sorts out a dispute over an alternative deposit product.
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Rebecca Marsh
Terms and conditions of a deposit
Rebecca Marsh of The Property Ombudsman Scheme settles the case of a pre-contract deposit with rather loose strings attached.
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Latest property news
Haslams sees deposit return times speed up with new deal
The agency started using The Depositary two months ago, and has seen a 50% reduction in the time taken to return deposits.
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GUEST blog: Big cash deposits don’t make tenants more responsible
The private rented sector's reliance on cash deposits to keep tenants in line is misguided, says industry figure.
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Features
De-stressing deposits
Lisa Isaacs looks at the latest developments and thinking around the most troublesome and time-consuming aspects of lettings – tenant deposits and inventories.
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Rebecca Marsh
It’s nice to share
But it also can make for complications when a student sharer asks for the return of a deposit, as The Property Ombudsman, Rebecca Marsh explains.
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Features
No deposit? No problem!
The new ‘no-deposit’ schemes offer benefits to tenants, agents and landlords alike. Richard Reed reviews what’s on offer and asks how the traditional schemes stand up against them.
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