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Regulation & Law
Crackdown planned on Grimsby’s ‘bad landlords’
North East Lincolnshire Council has voted in favour of a tough new selective licensing scheme for the fishing port town.
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Letting agent defends sending out pre-emptive eviction notice letters
The letting agent that sent pre-emptive eviction notices out to all its tenants has defended his actions and said that “we had no other choice, my business could go bust” and that his business is between a “rock and hard place”. Guy Piggott, who runs GAP Properties in Grimsby and is also Chairman of the Humber Landlords Association, has sent out the notices to his tenants informing them that ahead of the roll out of Universal Credit in the area on December 13th, he has no choice but to serve them with a two-month eviction notice and that if they fall behind on their rent they will be asked to leave the property. Guy’s actions prompted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to ask a question at Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday, to which Theresa May said she would look at the letter. GAP properties, which has been run by several members of the Piggott family since 2001, has sent the letter out to “hundreds” of tenants many of whom, says Guy, have “no idea what Universal Credit is or how it works”. Eviction notice letter The letter says GAP Property “cannot sustain arrears at the potential levels Universal Credit could create”…
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Entrepreneurs behind IAM Sold launch online conveyancing ‘disruptor’
An online conveyancing system has been launched that enables small and medium-size agents to offer their own in-house branded service and take on the corporates. Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke (pictured, below) whose company Intelligent Services Group also owns IAMSold, has launched The Conveyancing Partnership (TCP), a free service for agents. TCP works by prompting vendors to start the initial stages of the conveyancing process prior to an offer being made and is claimed to improve relations between agents and solicitors, and speed up conveyancing by up to seven days, one agent trialling the system claims. TCP acts as a way to persuade vendors to use the agent’s own solicitors, and then enables agents to offers their own branded ‘in-house’ conveyancing service to progress the sale. If the customers then go on to use TCP’s no-sale, no fee service run through a panel of local solicitors picked by the agent, then branches can expect referral fees of between £100 and £225 per case, TCP says. At the beginning of the process vendors are asked to fill in a Law Society-approved online questionnaire which prompts them for the details they would normally only provide once the conveyancing process start. This includes the…
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