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    Government back-tracking over commitment to three-year tenancies

    Read how Mayor of London Sadiq Khan believes the government is back-tracking on its commitment to bring in three year tenancies.

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    London Mayor Sadiq Khan launches affordable homes portal

    Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched a property portal that offers affordable homes to buy in the capital.

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    How the once mighty HAS fallen: Foxtons share price drops to all-time low of just 62p

    The share price of Foxtons, once lauded as the fastest-growing and most successful estate agency in the UK, yesterday sunk to an all-time low of 62p, only 3p shy of the sector’s lowest-value stock, Hunters. Foxtons’ shares have been haemorrhaging value since early April this year following a series of unremittingly gloomy trading updates that have revealed dramatic year-on-year plummets in profits and turnover. Its most recent update last month revealed that market conditions in the capital remained “very challenging”. Group revenues for the first three months of 2018 were £24.5 million, down from £28.7 million during the same period the year before. All parts of its business including sales, lettings and mortgage lending saw dropping revenues. This has led to many City investors ditching the company’s shares, which peaked in March 2014 at £3.89 when the company held an unassailable and increasingly dominant position in what was then a booming London market. foxtons share price Its current share price represents an 86% reduction from this peak following yesterday’s 4% drop in its share price. It’s been a bad few weeks for the company. Last month a national newspaper ran an unflattering story about a landlord’s experience with two nightmare…

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    All 33 London councils sign up to join Mayor’s new rogue agent database

    The Mayor of London's new rogue agent database, which also includes landlords, will now be supplied with details by all the capital's councils.

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    As Article 50 trigger looms, RICS says a hard Brexit will damage property sector

    The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says a hard Brexit may lead to 176,500 EU member state construction workers being forced to leave the UK, or 8% of the total building industry workforce. As the government prepares to trigger Article 50 and steer the UK towards an exit from the European Union, RICS argues that for Brexit to succeed “it is essential to secure access to the EU Single Market or put alternative plans in place to safeguard the property and construction sector”. Research by RICS also revealed that 30% of the construction professional it surveyed believe hiring non-UK workers was important to the success of their business. “Unless access to the single market is secured or alternative plans are put in place, we won’t be able to create the infrastructure needed to enable our cities to compete on a global stage,” says Jeremy Blackburn, Head of Policy at RICS (pictured). “We have said before that this is a potential stumbling block for the Government, which is working to deliver both its Housing White Paper and Industrial Strategy.” A recent report by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan shows that a significant majority of these EU construction workers are based in…

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    London Rental Standard faces Khan ‘review’

    Boris Johnson’s flagship London Rental Standard (LRS) scheme has a less certain future after Sadiq Khan’s team confirmed to The Negotiator that it is now ‘under review’ with a decision on its future likely ‘very soon’. The LRS is already on shaky ground. Soon after coming to office Khan released papers revealing that City Hall officials warned Boris Johnson back in 2013 that the scheme’s target to sign up 100,000 landlords was “unrealistic and unachievable”. Launched in May 2014 it is supposed to enable tenants to ‘rent with confidence’ and give landlords ‘peace of mind’ and has the strong support of the industry including the Association of Residential Letting Agents, whose parent organisation NFoPP runs the accreditation programme for ARLA agents wanting to join. The LRS originally brought seven landlord accreditation schemes across London under one roof but was a voluntary scheme for letting agents and so far, only 338 have signed up to it via their membership of either ARLA, the National Approved Letting Scheme or the UK Association of Letting Agents. It’s invisible on the main portals and for example Zoopla doesn’t use the logo on the details pages for LRS members such as Foxtons, and agents are left to…

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