by post admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News
An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in debt to a total £1.3m. Local media in the Midlands report that Homepoint – with branches in Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, Walsall and...
by post admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News
A landlord in his 70s who claims he was just ‘helping people’ has been handed a suspended prison sentence. That’s because he housed up to nine tenants in a property which had been the subject of a ban. Robert Crow, 71, was convicted of 18 offences relating to...
by post admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News
A survey claims that 75% of tenants describe relationships with the landlords as ‘good’ or ‘very good’, while 89% of landlords believe they have a good rapport with their renters as well. In a study commissioned by online platform Mashroom, 59% of tenants cite strong...
by post admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News, Tax & Other Financial
Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently and now it’s the turn of Knight Frank. Referring to the mainstream market, Knight Frank research head Tom Bill says: “We...
by post admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News
An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess of 20 per cent a year. The Home website’s latest index shows year-on-year average rent growth reaching 20.5 per cent in the West Midlands. The south...
