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More mortgages agreed in early 2021
Mortgage commitments agreed by lenders were a quarter more at the end of 2020 than at the end of 2019, the private investor platform Hargreaves…
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Possession claims went down, not up
Re-opening the courts last year after their six month Covid closure, did not lead to a surge in possession actions, Cloud software specialist Decorus for…
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Scots housing reform to focus on rented sector
Scotland is to introduce private rented sector reforms ‘early in the next parliament’, Housing Minister Kevin Steward has promised. Subject to re-election, the Government will…
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Propertymark backs survey campaign
Propertymark, the umbrella organisation for property agents, valuers and auctioneers, has said it is continuing to back a campaign for launch of a Welsh…
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‘Surprise’ house price hike leaves ‘unusual uncertainty’
House prices have continued to soar, Nationwide’s latest House Price Survey has reported. It puts the February annual rate of growth at 6.9 per cent,…
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Small cheer for landlords in Sunak’s latest Budget
‘We want to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy’, said Chancellor Rishi Sunak when delivering his 2021 Budget this week. It contained an extension of…
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New advice online
Notice periods given to tenants in England from 29 August 2020 (to at least 31 March 2021) must be at least six months for most…
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NRLA makes call for green tax breaks
There is ‘urgent need’ for reform to support energy improvements to rented housing, the National Residential Landlords Association has told the Chancellor of the Exchequer…
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Connells Group reports ‘good performance’
Connells, the estate agency group that is in the process of buying the Countrywide group, saw total house sale exchanges down by 16 per cent…
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Longer tenancies for renters in Wales
From spring 2022, new Welsh tenancy agreements will be for a minimum 12 months. This is among a raft of changes included in the Renting…
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Walsall landlords lose out as letting agent folds
Walsall letting agent Homepoint Estate Agents Limited has gone into voluntary liquidation with debts of just under £1m. Of the £977,000 deficit, about £700,000 is…
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Barnsley landlord admitted tenant unlawfully evicted
A Barnsley landlord has been ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid community work, to participate in 15 days of ‘rehabilitation’ training, and to pay…
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Dire eviction warnings proved to be wrong
Warnings of a surge of evictions following the partial lifting of the repossessions ban in September last year proved to be unfounded, The National Residential…
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Compensation claim goes up in smoke
An uninsured landlord’s claim that his letting agents should compensate him for more than £220,000 in losses has been largely turned down by a Scottish…
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£6,000 HMO fine was ‘too lenient’
A Portsmouth letting agent that challenged a fine imposed by the council for letting a property without an HMO licence has had its penalty doubled…
