Nick Dunnning signs up Townends and Stirling Ackroyd to OnTheMarket
Nick Dunning Associates has signed up its two brands Townends and Stirling Ackroyd to OnTheMarket.com and both are already listing properties on the site, it has been announced. Townends’ 21...
View ArticleThree letting agents fined £90,000 over unsafe and dangerous HMOs
Three estate agencies in North London have between them been fined in excess of £90,000 by two different boroughs for recent breaches of HMO regulations. The most shocking case is My London Services...
View ArticleAbolish Stamp Duty to free up housing market, say RICS members
The gloves are off at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) which says its member want a radical shake-up of the taxation system. This includes abolishing Stamp Duty altogether or...
View ArticleWhat’s gone wrong?
I recently read a great book about how a values-enabled culture can inspire business to a sustainable profit. That’s exactly how the property business that I worked for 33 years was created, why I...
View Article‘Suspend Right to Rent’ say landlords as Home Office reconvenes panel
The government is to re-examine how its controversial ‘Right to Rent’ legislation is impacting the private rental market after coming under pressure from the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to...
View ArticleHomes
The housings destination event for residential development, strategic asset management and procurement solutions. The Exhibition 120 of the UK’s leading suppliers of residential development, strategic...
View ArticleMIPIM UK – The UK Property Marketplace
Why attend MIPIM UK? MIPIM UK is the UK’s largest and most insightful property event, providing the most comprehensive conference programme in the industry. It is the leading property summit for all...
View ArticleGrand Designs Live
A HOME SHOW ON A GRAND SCALE Grand Designs Live, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, returns from 10 -14 October at Birmingham’s NEC and in 2019 at London’s ExCeL from 4-12 May. Based on...
View ArticleMortgage Business Expo 2018
In an uncertain world, it’s time for interest rates to lift off, not blast off” It’s difficult to predict what’s going to happen to interest rates and how fast they might rise over the coming months...
View ArticleProperty Investor Show
The most comprehensive exhibition of UK & International residential property (and services) returns to ExCel London for its 2018 ‘Autumn Edition’ in October. Entry to both the exhibition &...
View ArticleNAEA | Propertymark South West Conference
EXETER Propertymark will be in Exeter on 27 September to bring you this year’s unmissable conference. The line-up of speakers will be bringing you your essential legal update, top business tips from...
View ArticleDisclosing Rental Income to HMRC by Let Property Campaign
HMRC has details of all property transactions dating back many years, therefore if you’ve been receiving rental income and haven’t declared it, then you may well receive a letter from HMRC. The Let...
View ArticleSo long – goodbye. Countrywide chairman quits £360,000 Royal Mail non-exec role
The Executive Chairman of Countrywide Peter Long has stepped down from his £360,000-a-year role at Royal Mail as its non-executive Chairman with immediate effect. Long has been criticised heavily in...
View ArticleThey’re about to instruct! New proptech partnership to revolutionise lead...
A new partnership between two leading tech firms says its joint service can both qualify potential home buyers and sellers and predict when they are going to move. The ‘revolutionary’ partnership is...
View ArticleSDL Group Director completes 560km challenge
Paul Staley, PRS Director at SDL Group has completed a gruelling 560km challenge, ‘Tower to Tower’, raising £60,000 for children’s hospice The Donna Louise. In a group of 12 people taking part in the...
View ArticleConnells closes its online venture, Hatched
Hatched has been closed by its owner, Connells Group. Connells said they believe that the ‘online-only’/hybrid business model is fundamentally flawed and affirmed the Group’s absolute commitment to...
View ArticleLeading NE estate agent signs up to OTM after originally rejecting its overtures
A leading 29-branch independent estate agent in the North East is to begin listing its properties via OnTheMarket. Pattinson says it has signed up to the portal after originally deciding not to join...
View ArticleThe Property Ombudsman expels six rogue estate agents including one for 10 years
Redress scheme The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has expelled or extended the expulsion of six rogue estate agents from its scheme today, only the second time such an exodus has been revealed over the past...
View ArticleLabour reveals three radical housing proposals at Liverpool conference
Labour has revealed several key housing policies so far at its Liverpool national conference including an additional tax on holiday homes, a £20m fund to support the growth of renters’ unions and an...
View ArticleCouncils ‘unprepared’ for HMO regulation change next week
Many local authorities are unprepared for or even ignorant of the new and broader mandatory licensing scheme for HMOs due to be introduced in a week’s time, it has been claimed. The National Landlords...
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