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RICS calls for national renter database – shame they’re 7 years behind the rest of us!

07 December, 20160 Comments
In the wake of the impending ban on letting agents’ fees, the RICS has called on the Government for the creation of an online database where all tenants’ references and payment histories could be viewed online. The database proposal is in a RICS policy paper ahead of the publication of the delayed Housing White Paper, now
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Homes for sale ‘at a new low’

13 August, 20150 Comments
Figures show that the UK property market is being ‘starved’ as the number of homes for sale is at a record low. Research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has found that the average estate agents now only has 47 houses for sale per branch; the lowest level since records began in 1978.
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NEW COUNCIL RATES for 2013/14 [FUNNY! MUST READ!]

01 March, 20130 Comments
Thank you to Mary Latham for forwarding this email onto Landlord Referencing Services. A nice, light thread for a Friday! ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— This was sent to me by a RICS surveyor! I am planning to use this as an opener at NLA Branch meetings What do you think? Might break the ice?? Your House As seen
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1 in 4 tenants feel ripped off by rental agreements & referencing costs

22 November, 20120 Comments
A clampdown on the lettings sector is needed to stop rogue agents turning it into “the property industry’s Wild West”, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have warned today. RICS’ consumer letting survey (conducted in key marginal constituencies) highlights the potential for rogue lettings agents to cash in on the current rental boom, due
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New house building stimulus package to be unveiled.

14 August, 20120 Comments
The UK Coalition will soon be unveiling a new stimulus package, in a bid to encourage more house building. The draft proposal will be announced by Cameron or Clegg next month and features a complex scheme; where it is believed that the government will relax rules requiring private house builders to incorporate social housing into
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