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Legal expert - landlord dates

Important landlord dates about starting and ending a tenancy.

Remember if you need some informal legal advice you can always call Fidler and Pepper for a chat.

EXPERT LEGAL ADVICE

Cheaper to buy than rent

Apparently buying a house is cheaper than renting a house and we have seen an increase of 1 million households renting in the past five years.

Don't you just love research and statistics?..........no?

Property price twitter - please

......Ive just noticed my homes fallen in price on Zoopla, please I can't take it any more.

Biggest house fall this in a year last month - Reuters
Mortgage lending bounces back - Daily Mail
Foreign buyers snap up posh London homes - Yahoo
Homeowners find it impossible to remortgage - Telegraph
Homeowners can't get a mortgage - Citiwire


See all the property price tweets

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Legal Workshops - What you need to know!

I am running a couple of useful seminars aimed at residential landlords.

Part 1 - Tenancy Deposit Scheme, summarises the requirements brought in by the Housing Act 2004 regarding deposits and outlines the requirements to invest the deposit, timescales and advise on where the deposit can be invested. It also discusses how to get the deposit back at the end of the tenancy. We will also highlight the pitfalls of failing to invest the deposit and the penalties the Court can impose.
Thurs 10th March & 5 May 2011

Part 2 - Ending the Tenancy, will advise you on when to end the tenancy and how. It will run through what Notices you need and when they need to be served. If you tenant does not vacate the property at the expiry of the Notice, you will need to issue Court proceedings. This seminar will also take you through the process of obtaining possession through the Court. Thurs 24th March & 19th May 2011

All seminars are held at our offices in North Notts, 10 mins drive from Jct 28, M1 motorway and charged at £15 per person

We also offer a special session answering questions specific to your own issues.

The workshop will give you 1.5 hours of useful guidance from myself a Solicitor who is involved with these & issues on a day-to-day basis.

Click here for more information.

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Letting agent optimists

59 percent of letting agent in the recent Arla survey believe rental demand will remain greater than the supply.

Ian Potter, operations director, said: "The lack of new rental stock for the private rented sector was the dominant factor in the market last year, and will continue well into 2012 because of the broader issues of diminishing housing supply and lending drying up,"

Agents, always the optimists........

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