Online-Only Letting and Management Agencies While sitting on the train into London the other day, the passengers in my open-planned compartment were having a conversation. Usually, I try to blot out unavoidably listening to other people’s conversations, but this one really caught my interest. The conversation was about letting agents, in particular the online variety....

Attracting the right tenant With property, particularly in Greater London, being so high in demand, finding a tenant for your property is like shooting fish in a barrel!  You don’t even need an agent to do that, you could advertise your property online and you will be inundated with enquiries. Sadly, a great number of...

It is time for Letting Agents to be regulated and qualified! By Alan Beesley MNAEA, MARLA Director of Atkinsons Residential/The Letting Line I have always struggled with the principle that someone would give their biggest financial investment, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, to an unqualified ‘professional’ to look after! Would that someone also entrust...