By common consent, spring is much the best time to sell your property. It’s also a great time to buy a property because there will probably be more on the market. So here are some tips to help you prepare for a quick and profitable house sale: 1. Plan ahead for getting your energy performance [...]
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The “Housing Crunch” sequel
First, we had the ‘credit crunch’, a drama played out in governments, stock exchanges and banks throughout the global economy. The how and the why it happened is probably only fully understood by financial experts; i.e. the people that caused it. The aftermath of this has resulted in cuts to jobs and services and most [...]
New research shows that almost one million tenants in Britian have been a victim of a scam
New research by the housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals that almost one million Britons have fallen victim to scams involving a private tenancy or landlord in the last three years. Shelter commissioned YouGov to conduct an online survey of 2,234 GB Adults – 2% of whom said they have fallen victim to a scam [...]
Seasons Greetings from lettingaproperty.com
Dear Reader May I take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year in 2010. Looking back on 2009, it has been a very exciting time for the team at lettingaproperty.com and I would like to share with you some of the milestones that we are extremely proud of [...]
Is it the right time to enter the property market?
Ask ten people whether they think the time is right to venture back into the property market and you’re likely to get a different answer from every one. Even studying the news reports won’t help much if you want to know whether house prices are on the up or about to sink back through the [...]
Protect yourself against identity fraudsters!
You may think the odds are in your favour when it comes to being a victim of identity fraud. But using other people’s stolen personal details to obtain credit and commit scams is one of the UK’s fastest growing crimes – and the fraudsters are always on the look out for ways to up their [...]
Online Home Valuation – How much is my house worth in rent?
Lettingaproperty.com have just launched a new and completely free online home valuation service for landlords looking to value their property to let. The online home valuation service can be used by landlords and homeowners to help assess the rental price of a property when conducting a rent review and it will help to benchmark the [...]
Calling all property experts – your soapbox has arrived
lettingaproperty.com, the property website dedicated to residential lettings in the UK, is on the lookout for talented writers to contribute to our popular Property Blog. We are looking for a handful of contributors with experience and knowledge in property who feel they need a soapbox to shout about their experiences, frustrations, surmises, limericks, humorous anecdotes [...]
Office of Fair Trading welcomes ruling over unfair Foxtons terms
Hopefully, landlords will be able to breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to tenancy renewal fees charged by Letting Agents. In a recent legal case brought against Foxtons Ltd by the Office of Fair Trading under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (UTCCRs), it was ruled by the High Court that [...]
Tenants warned of latest deposit scam
Attention all Tenants. A new scam has been brought to light by the Deposit Protection Service (DPS) involving property that is advertised to rent on certain private-to-list websites. Scam artists posing to be Landlords are using sites like Gumtree and are asking unsuspecting tenants to prove that they can afford to pay the deposit and [...]
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