A new information hub for landlords has been launched by the Daily Mail’s financial website This is Money, with support from easyProperty and British Gas.
A new buy-to-let section on the financial website has news, features, guides and tools, and provides a destination for landlords and investors to stay informed and on the right side of the law.
Rob Ellice, CEO of easyProperty, said: “Given the unprecedented number of new, inexperienced and accidental landlords entering the buy-to-let sector, there has never been a more crucial time to provide an easily accessible advice website.
“This will be increasingly important post-election, when numerous housing policies and complicated landlord regulations could be introduced.”
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I’m terribly sorry, there has to be some sort of mistake? – these new fangle (nearly 20 year old) budget jobbies offer everything us silly full service lot offer but they send their customers to a couple of pages on a website for advice, how strange.
Someone cleverer than me might think that the budget boys, including the phone bloke, the gob on a stick, and the others (chap with the chin and diminishing market share) have taken the view that they offer less, charge a fee that means they can’t grow without mugging the public through crowd funding and offer less then dress it all up as the same the rest of us have been doing since God was a boy……..and don’t talk about VAT or use real numbers, course I might be wrong, what do I know? It’s all goin’ online innit! – Jonnie
Are they saying landlords are thick and they need information (already available in abundance online) in a hub? Complete waste of time.
A key reason why landlords use an agent rather than do it themselves…advice! With more an more legislation bound to come in over the next few years more and more landlords will turn to an agent for peace of mind.
So Rob Ellice has set himself up as an online Letting Agent and publicly quotes ” said: “Given the unprecedented number of new, inexperienced and accidental landlords entering the buy-to-let sector, there has never been a more crucial time to provide an easily accessible advice website.” We could all operate online for low fees if we simply diverted our customers to another site for advice.
Shot yourself in the foot comes to mind!!
You are not supposed to mention that! Not having the skill set to to provide anything more than an online listing service is fine as long as you don’t try to pretend to offer anything more.
This isn’t a shot in the foot but a necessary attempt to turn clueless into a positive. “Look at us!! we are plugging the gaps in our knowledge and what we offer”
Small point what happens if the landlords hub decide to add a property listing feature! A sales platform is a far lower barrier to entry than a knowledge platform.