Lettings

Mark Prisk, the Housing Minister, has claimed that landlords' responsibilities for checking the immigration status of their tenants, as proposed in the Queen's Speech, will be a "light touch".

Potential vendors are flirting with selling their properties, but supply levels still haven't risen to meet some pretty consistently strong demand in Douglas & Gordon's reckoning.

A £10,000 fine if immigration details are wrong? For Pete's sake, give letting agents a break says Trevor Abrahmsohn... The ramifications of the immigration problem facing the UK are horrendous.

"Tough" measures that will see lettings agents take a front-line role in tackling immigration, announced in yesterday’s (8 May 2013) Queen’s Speech, have not gone down well in the industry (read what…

If your clients have had their fill of Formica and black vinyl sofas, Grosvenor's brand new 16-unit "premium rental product" at 65 Duke Street in Mayfair (launched at a swanky soirée last night) claims…

Thoreau once said that success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. By this measure, the last five years have been very successful indeed for some PCL agencies - few more so than W.A.

Investing in London property is a pretty good idea, according to a new report (and many, many graphs) from Douglas & Gordon's asset management arm, with gross rental returns in prime central London outstripping…

Average prices in prime central London rose again last month, according to Knight Frank, as activity "remained robust". The firm recorded a rise of 0.

Tenants will soon receive a right to challenge "rogue" lettings agents, with the government today demanding that all agents sign up to an approved redress scheme.

The unusually long-tailed winter had a big impact on last month's sales valuations and new instructions, according to Douglas & Gordon, who saw a chunky 30% drop off on last year's numbers.

There's to be no enforcement just yet on the Advertising Standard's Authority's decree that letting agents must include details of all compulsory fees on ads.

The Lonres Spring Residential Review reports a real air of optimism blossoming through the prime central market, with a doubling in the number of new instructions unable to stifle a 9% rise in the average…