Feb
11
The Citylets Belfast quarterly report Q4 2010
Filed Under Belfast Property News, Citylets Rental Reports, Did you Know...?, Letting agents, Market News, Uncategorized by DanCookson | Comments Off
Our Citylets Belfast quarterly report Q4 2010 was released this week and we were delighted with the coverage it received in the media. The Private Rented Sector is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the provision of housing in Northern Ireland and our ongoing monitoring of trends in both rent values and ‘time to let’ is recognised as being of real relevance in a sector that has not traditionally had much meaningful current research.
http://www.build.ie/construction_news.asp?newsid=122718
The overall Time to Let (TTL) for the greater Belfast Area lengthened in Q3 to 56 days which seems to have led to a softening of overall rent values in Q4. Encouragingly though the TTL figures dropped in Q4 2010 to 48 days which bodes well for rental values in Q1 2011.
To download your copy of the latest report visit http://www.citylets.co.uk/reports/
Mar
16
Should Letting Agents be Registered?
Filed Under Letting agents, Renting news, Uncategorized by DanCookson | Leave a Comment
The Housing Scotland Bill is now out to consultation and the Minister for Housing & Communities (Alex Neil MSP) wants to hear your views.
Within the Bill there is a proposal for Local Authorities to be given the power to demand that Agents provide a list of properties under their management.
Obtaining information from agents:
Amending the current Housing (Scotland) Bill to allow local authorities to require an agent to provide a list of all properties they manage along with the owners contact details, with failure to do so being an offence, will significantly assist local authorities in identifying landlords who have failed to register for landlord registration.
This proposal will benefit landlords who have already registered for landlord registration and will increase protection for tenants. Increasing the coverage of landlord registration and removing bad landlords will improve management standards in the sector.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/03/04140613/1
Your responses to the consultation paper needs to be in by 19 April 2010. There is a questionnaire with relevant questions below:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/03/04140613/housingconsultation0309/Q/forceupdate/on
Mar
12
Citylets now advertising property in Moscow
Filed Under Did you Know...?, Letting agents, Market News, Uncategorized by DanCookson | Leave a Comment
Citylets is the first choice for online advertising of property to rent in Scotland and Northern Ireland. However we are always looking to expand and are now delighted to be advertising property in Moscow. See this fine example of a five bedroom dacha: http://ow.ly/1hXGM
Its worth noting that Google Street View now covers 98% of all Streets in UK which means even our Moscow properties are viewable in 3D panorama. http://ow.ly/1hXGN
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