Ros Renshaw – an update
EYE editor still is hospital following weekend operation
News Archive
Call for 80% rental income guarantee for small landlords
Three month ban on possession claims may cause landlords financial difficulties…
Legal bodies unveil template to allow exchanges to be delayed amid coronavirus pandemic
Guidance aims to help conveyancers follow home moving restrictions
Property sales set to slide by up to 45% due to coronavirus crunch
Agent predicts 2020 sales slump but pent-up demand will create 2021 boom
Mortgage approvals hit six-year high before the coronavirus hit the UK
“Hollow” mortgage figures show strong mortgage market before the pandemic
Use of electronic signatures and ID checking shoots up
Conveyancers urged to use email instead of post and to opt for e-signatures
Former directors of Cabec Ltd banned by Insolvency Service
Craig Cook and Claire Cook banned from holding directorships.
Rightmove cancels dividend payment in face of Covid-19 uncertainties
Impact of Covid-19 on portal results in cancellation of dividend payment.
Eye’s editor put out of action by serious fall
Ros Renshaw in hospital after serious fall
Portals are ‘profiteering’ but not helping people buy and sell homes, claim
Portals putting profits ahead of people, claims new player in the market
Sale registrations down by a fifth even before coronavirus struck – Land Registry
Registrations lodged at the Land Registry fell 20% in one month
Landlords urged to budget for the next six months as repossession proceedings are scrapped
Coronavirus officially puts housing possession court proceedings on hold for 90 days
Live events including Ombudsman conference cancelled in favour of digital events
Virtual events replacing meetings and conferences
Tenancy deposit replacement provider announces major new clients
Deposit replacement product provider reaches a clientele of over 2,640 branches
Housing market is ‘suspended’ as banks tell Government valuations are ‘impossible’
Mortgage market in chaos as phone lines clogged with borrowers looking for payment holiday
Prospective sellers told by Government that agents cannot market homes in the usual way
Agents told that they must keep branches closed – but no need to pull transactions
Emergency coronavirus law makes moving house an exception to public gatherings restrictions
Moving home ‘where reasonably necessary’ is still allowed, says emergency law
Thousands of agents sent home and branches shut across Britain as industry fights for survival
A different way of life for a whole industry as sector shares the national pain
Furlough scheme needs clarification as to whether staff can still do some work, says agent
Government scheme to bail out staff salaries ‘a complete mess’, says agent
Valuable resources available for agents having to work remotely
Staying connected even when you’re working from home – useful resources