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Service Charge Guidance

Ther are a number of factors, including your unique situation, the terms of your lease or rental agreement, and the applicable rules and regulations in your community that could well affect your legal duty to pay a property service charge. Property service costs are ...

Read    14/02/2024

The New Block Management Code of Practice. Will it Boost Service Delivery?

Finally new block management code of practice is being developed that we hope will improve the service that leaseholders can expect to get from their managing agent. This will help you to select your managing agent.

Read    14/02/2024

Flat Owners Fire Door Inspections Increase Service Charges

We discussed the practical implications of the new Fire Safety Act for managing agents and leaseholders elsewhere. In this blog, we examine service charges

Read    14/02/2024

Huge Increases in the Build To Rent Market Anticipated

The British Property Federation (BPF) has recently conducted a survey on the build-to-rent sector. The results are interesting to say the least. In the UK, Build to Rent relates to housing units purposely built and designed for rent. This is in terms of design, lifes...

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Landlords who charge Ground Rent to be fined

On 30th June 2022, a new act came into force - the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022. This act prohibits freeholdersowning long residential leases from collecting ground rent on new leases. The law applies to all relevant properties in both England and Wales. G...

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Gas Safety - The Do's and Don'ts

According to the Gas Safe Register, a quarter of homes in the UK have a potentially dangerous gas appliance. That is an awful lot of potential damage to property and, far more importantly, to homeowners and tenants. There are an amazing 700,000 incidents that result ...

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Should landlords look at student lets?

According to a recent report in Letting Agent Today, the student rental market is booming again. Yields have increased and, with pressure growing on supply across the PRS as a whole, demand for student flats and houses is riding high.Paragon Bank's research, as quot...

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Landlords - Top Ten Tips

Bankers Arbuthnot Latham recently shared their top tips for letting property. They are as follows:Don’t skimp on record-keeping. Keeping track of income and outgoings is very important. Up to date records enable you to stay on top of administration and compliance, as...

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PlanetRent - Keeping disputes to a minimum

More disputes are raised by tenants than by landlords. This is according to research from Decorus for Sage as featured in Landlord Today. This often occurs because there is no clear understanding between the parties to the rental agreement and what is expected from t...

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Is your rental property per friendly? PlanetRent can Help

In relatively recent legislation which incorporates the Model Tenancy Agreement, landlords can no longer issue blanket bans on pets. Instead, consent for pets will be the default position.This Model Tenancy Agreement will now form the government’s recommended contrac...

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