The Government has published draft secondary legislation confirming the text and the mandatory information that must be included in new assured periodic tenancy agreements from 1st May onwards. It is a significant expansion from the old AST system. With ASTs, tenants could request a basic written statement covering rent and dates. Under the new rules,…
A landlord who was a member of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has been ordered to pay a £30,600 rent repayment order to the tenants living in her unlicensed and unsafe HMO. The tribunal heard there were four tenants renting rooms in Rebecca Elizabeth Fong’s three-storey property on Camberwell New Road in Lambeth between…
The UK’s largest private rental landlord has welcomed the Renters’ Rights Act, claiming it will raise standards across the sector while also keeping the market attractive to long-term investors. Helen Gordon (pictured), Chief Executive of Grainger, told Proactive Investors: “We welcome the passage of the Renters’ Rights Bill, which we believe will raise standards across…
Software provider, Street.co.uk, has launched a new Partner Platform designed to help estate agents capture referral revenue that is often lost due to manual processes and busy workloads. According to early data from its ‘Street Labs’ testing group, agents trialling the system have seen a five-fold increase in completed mortgage referrals. The launch comes at…
Councils are facing scrutiny over their use of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to enforce planning rules, rules that were originally designed to target serious criminal activity. POCA allows courts to seize profits gained whilst committing offences such as fraud or money laundering. But a growing number of local authorities have begun using it…
Just when you thought your estate agency website was getting the hang of search engine optimisation (SEO), along comes another acronym to scramble your digital marketing plans. The new kid on the block is GEO or generative engine optimisation and it’s about catching the eye of the artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are increasingly dominating…
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