By Steve Roulstone
It is now a year ago that we started the Castle Estates Blog and I am pleased to say that we continue to attract comment and contributions from the Industry with two new contributors due in the next month. We have provided blogs under several headings during this time, covering Current Property News – Property Landlord advice – Rental Issues and of course as a Franchising organisation – Franchising News.
We have used this heading to concentrate on breaking news items which over the last year has mainly involved Industry Legislation (and my ongoing belief that we need the Government to introduce both a registration scheme for both Landlords and Letting agents) The Housing Market and Mortgages, legal cases surrounding our Industry (not forgetting announcments such as this!) as well as those times when high profile people within the Lettings Industry have reported, mainly on the BBC, who, because of their apparent dislike of the Housing market cannot wait to deliver any news item in a negative way – as they say, bad news pays!
In this section, mainly based upon advice and information for Landlords, we have reported on bad and good trends, given advice on HMO’s as well as Resident Landlords, as well as advice on differing scenarios that present themselves as Landlord choices, such as furnished property, Excluded rooms and Garages. Property presentation issues such as gardens and decoration, not forgetting the two most important rooms in any house, the bathroom and kitchen!
This heading has been used to give information and hopefully clarity over perceived problems within the Industry through the eyes of the Tenants. I believe the area that needs clarifying above all others is the role (legal) of the Agent and how we stand in law in delivering a duty of responsibility to our Landlords, but a duty of care to our Tenants and how this difference manifests itself in our day to day role and through the contracts we employ. In doing so we have reported on notice periods and the reasons why, holding rented property for Tenants and explaining the effect of void periods to Landlords.
This has been our vehicle to get news out there about how the market is changing, the advantages of Franchising and how we see them, as well as were individuals can benefit from networks such as ours. It has also been the heading that we have shared with others in our Industry where our opinion has relevance to the message that they have been passing on to their readers.
Visitors and the year to come.
There have been many, many, more subjects covered in the well over 100 blogs we have posted on this site, too many topics to list sensibly, but we will continue to write about our industry, the housing market and legislation that effects the industry in the same vein over the coming year, with as already promised more contributors from all sections of our industry, joining the writers we already have from the Insurance markets, Training and Legal advice circles as well as Professions from within the Franchising Market. Thank-you for looking in, please continue to tell your friends!
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