Kate Faulkner from Designs on Property
My second ‘Notable Property Person‘ is Kate Faulkner, a well known property person, particularly for her books for the consumer organisation, Which and her association with Channel 4. Here are her answers to our questions:
1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company
I live and breathe property [...]
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Kate Faulkner – Notable Property Persons in their own words
Housing charity Housing Action provides voidless letting solution
I attended a landlords forum meeting last night co-hosted by a brilliant company called Housing Action. They are a housing charity offering an extraordinary service for landlords in the East Anglia area.
Housing Action are a registered charity who have been around since 1989. They aim to re-house and support individuals and families in need, and [...]
Foxtons withdraws appeal
Two property web-sites have been reporting that Foxtons have withdrawn their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the High Court decision against them last year. You will find a summary (as at October 2009) of my previous posts on the OFT v. Foxtons case here.
The two articles that I have seen are on the PainSmith Blog and [...]
Government makes new announcements on the Private Rented Sector
There has been a positive flurry of tweets and emails crossing my computer screen today, preceding and then following, the announcement from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Dept. about their plans for the Private Rented Sector.
You can read the news item here, and the report itself can be downloaded from here.
This follows on from [...]
Fast Trak to the rescue for social housing tenants
An interesting article in the January / February issue of Residential Property Investor looks at Fast Trak, a new company tackling the problems of too many social housing tenants, not enough social housing to put them in, and not enough private landlords willing to take a chance on them.
There are a myriad reasons why private [...]
TDS increases prices for agents using arbitration scheme
Last year I reported that the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) run by the Dispute Service had announced that they were going to increase their fees. They have now announced what these are. Or rather they haven’t, because the fees information page tells us that all TDS members fees are going to be calculated individually now, [...]
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Foxtons case concluded – now is the time for agents to review their agency agreements
I have just learned that a final order has been made in the case of the Office of Fair Trading v. Foxtons, which I have written about in the past (see here).
Foxtons have now made ‘significant changes’ to its standard terms and conditions which have satisfied the OFT
‘including making the liability to pay renewal commission [...]
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