Recent Articles in Tenant and Landlord Property Checklists

What's the latest with the London boroughs?
Jun 29, 2015

Every month we track the performance of each of the 32 London boroughs to see:-

1. How are they performing this year versus last?
2. Is the growth/decline more or less than the long term average?
3. What and when was the highest house price growth ever?
4. How much did prices fall during the last recession?
5. Are current property values more or less than the 2007/08 peak?

 

What's happening with capital growth and yields this month?
Jun 26, 2015

In our rental summary, we track what’s happening to demand and supply as well as returns for landlords – this helps you know whether rents can go up or need to be kept competitive.

Investors and Homeowners: beware of subletting scams!
Jun 25, 2015

Currently the government are looking to prevent landlords from including a clause in their tenancy contracts which would stop tenants from sub-letting the property they rent.

On the 24th June at 9pm, Channel 5’s new series ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ aired for the first time. It shows why this change in the law would be bad news for landlords and anyone letting their own home.

Rents increasing everywhere apart from Wales this month!
Jun 25, 2015

Every month we do summary of the various rental indices to help you understand what’s really happening to rents both nationally and at a regional level.

SAFEagent Awareness Week 2015: All agents are NOT the same!
Jun 11, 2015

In life most people agree that you get what you pay for – except in property. Here everyone seems to think that ‘all agents’ are the same, everyone ‘pays cash’ and avoids VAT when carrying out property projects and that somehow most of the property industry is in ‘cahoots’ to do consumers out of a deal.