A leading estate agency is claiming to have invented an acronym for a new kind of demographic to go alongside ‘yuppies’ and ‘dinkies’. ‘Rogers’ has been coined by Jackson-Stops to identify a worrying and modern phenomenon within the housing market – young buyers who are Reliant On Grandparents and Equity Release for a deposit to…
Kemi Badenoch’s closing speech at the Conservative Conference in Manchester this year ‘set the hares running’ by revealing a Tory government would abolish Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) if she were to gain power at the next election. Hope springs eternal. If Rachel Reeves steals her idea and did get rid of SDLT within the…
Estate agency Durden & Hunt has partnered with children’s charity S.M.I.L.E London & Essex to bring Christmas gifts to vulnerable children and families across the region. The agency has kick-started the campaign with a donation of hundreds of new toys and gifts. From 2nd to 23rd November, its branches in Wanstead, Loughton, Hornchurch, Ongar, Colchester…
A landlord faces being banned form the private rental sector after Peterborough Council caught him housing families in a dangerous property for the second time. Despite pleading not guilty, Tariq Mahmood Khan was found guilty at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court of failing to comply with a prohibition order under Section 32 of the Housing Act 2004,…
A Bridgend estate agent has been handed a suspended prison sentence after concocting a fake overseas wedding to steal more than £12,000 from her fiancé’s family. Charlotte Blackwell, 31, has now pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud at Cardiff Crown Court. It heard that between November 2022 and May 2024, she created fake flight…
Nearly half of landlords plan to inspect their rental properties no more than once a year after the Renters’ Rights Act replaces fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) with periodic tenancies in May, according to Inventory Base. A survey of 885 UK landlords commissioned by the property inspection platform found that very few are planning on…
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