Shock as sales to buy-to-let landlords are decimated by nearly 65% in a year
End this war on landlords – they are not ‘pantomime villains of property market’
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Online agent Hatched plans big expansion next year
Online agent owned by Connells Group goes on major recruitment drive
‘We expect scepticism’ says new property portal as it gets set to launch next spring
Portal will offer social media packages to agents as well as property listings
Auction in New York to sell UK flats to dollar-happy buyers (but could referral fee make agents happy too?)
US auction house selling UK property for first time offers estate agents £1,000 per bidder introduction
Pictures of the Week – and it’s jingle links all the way!
Will Rightmove see the ho, ho, ho side?
Landlords’ Barometer – #44: Rent rises will not be automatic solution for landlords
Plenty – too much? – going on in the world of landlords
MP calls for an end to “ground rents blackmail”
Calls for a move to commonhold system
Sales of Britain’s priciest properties in state of collapse, Land Registry confirms
Collapse in £1m sales across the country could cost the Exchequer £1bn in Stamp Duty take by end of financial year
Databases of private tenants as proposed by the RICS already exist
Databases of private tenants can already be found online
Can this property really have been and come and gone eight times in the last two and a half years?
Mystery as to why this property kept popping up on Rightmove
Mergers and acquisitions of independent estate agencies gathering pace, says law firm
Thinking of merging, acquiring or selling? Here’s useful advice
Tenants launch national campaign to press Chancellor for early fees ban
Tenants group urges renters across UK to make their voices heard in fees ban consultation
Housing supply continuing to dwindle, warns RICS
Surveyors predict slow start to New Year for housing market
Annual house price growth up for first time since March – Halifax
Lender warns growth is still likely to slow
Purplebricks’ shares rocket again – but investor website says £360m valuation is ‘crazy’
Purplebricks has ‘yet to make a bean’, says investor website which calls valuation of online firm ‘perplexing’
RICS calls for database which would show ‘good’ and ‘bad’ tenants’ records
Post-lettings fee ban, landlords would be able to search references and payment history online – but only with tenant’s permission
This has been an ‘annus horribilis’ for landords, says Connells firm
Valuation firm says landlords are wary of new purchases
Remote viewings service claims agents could use it to raise profit margins
Agents praise trial of remote viewings service carried out with Zoopla
Coming to an estate agent’s window soon – a home built in the air
New type of starter home built over car parks could sell for £65,000
Treasury urged to stop landlords raising rents to cope with tax changes
Lord Beecham tables parliamentary question asking if and how the Government will monitor rents