Rates for the leases were on average 8.7 percent ahead of estimated rental value for retail lettings and renewals were in-line for office lettings.
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Revenue from lettings, a strong area for the firm that could be hit by the introduction of a ban on lettings fees, fell 1 percent to 68.3 million pounds.
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Isaac seemed calm, even though he had seen Lettings before.
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The company, which owns London's Leadenhall office building and Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre, said it had leased or renewed agreements on 314,000 square feet of retail lettings and 51,000 square feet of office lettings.
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Airbnb, a lettings agency, is considering a direct listing next year.
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Britain's fourth-largest lettings and estate agency company saw lettings and sales transactions across its business fall in June and July due to concerns regarding Britain's vote to leave the European Union, CEO Ian Wilson said.
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Total income in the UK sales and lettings business declined 17.2 percent.
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While overall revenue fell at Foxtons, fourth-quarter lettings revenue was flat at 13 million pounds, a strong area for the firm which could be hit by the introduction of a ban on lettings fees announced by the government in November.
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The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), which owns London's Leadenhall office building and Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre, said on Thursday it had leased or renewed agreements on 314,000 square feet of retail lettings and 51,000 square feet of office lettings.
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"We've begun to look more seriously this year at lettings book acquisitions," Budden said.
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Still, the opportunity for short-term lettings is bigger than Airbnb itself these days. Booking.
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One area in rude health is City office lettings, data from property agent Savills shows.
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Estate agents have seen a rise in lettings of luxury flats and smaller houses to students.
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Home Made, the London premium online lettings agency, has raised a further £2 million in funding.
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It has about 2,700 estate and lettings agency firms as members, including Savills and Knight Frank.
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The government has set a 90-night limit per year for lettings, but many landlords ignore this.
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Overall, the lettings were 4.7 percent ahead of their estimated rental values as of March, it added.
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The lettings business accounts for more than 60% of Foxtons' total revenue and boasts its highest margins.
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He was wearing the thin white robe everyone in the church wears for baptisms, Lettings, and burials.
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A 2015 restructuring of the company's sales and lettings business had led to the loss of experienced employees.
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Then just weeks later Wimdu got acquired, by another European home lettings platform called Novasol, owned by Wyndham Worldwide.
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"Where we stand versus anyone else offering online lettings is that (we're) trying to create a marketplace ethos," Handley said.
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However, Tom Smith, head of super-prime lettings at Knight Frank, warned potential landlords of such homes to expect demanding tenants.
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Derwent peer NewRiver also gained 2 percent, after its first-quarter results showed 71 new lettings agreed, and occupancy remained high.
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Housing sales levels had recovered some ground in August, albeit the recovery did not match that seen in lettings, Wilson said.
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So more states are adding new rules on social distancing and in several counties, jails are lettings some prisoners out early.
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Kang said that typically property owners will make 30-40 percent more revenue through the service than usually a regular lettings agency.
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Home Made, which is focused exclusively on London lettings for properties in the £500,000-plus range, has raised £850,000 in seed funding.
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Lettings, the value of projects bid by private contractors, were estimated at $2.4 billion in 2017, up from $1.63 billion in 2013.
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The company effectively acts as a real estate agent for short-term lettings: taking photos of the property, vetting applicants, and arranging viewings.
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The former pop star and X Factor judge has listed her ultramodern property in Hertfordshire, England for $6.5 million with Statons Barnet Lettings.
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MartinCo said there were signs of a recovery in lettings transactions in August, after a short-lived downturn in the wake of Brexit.
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Earlier this year, Berlin banned most short-term apartment lettings in response to a dearth of residential housing and the unsociable behaviour of lessees.
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A failed restructuring of sales and lettings in 2015 led to an exodus of experienced employees and resulted in it losing substantial market share.
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Total income fell to 290.6 million pounds from 302.9 million pounds a year earlier, with a fall in sales and lettings in the period.
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Between 4.30pm on the day before Mr Hammond delivered his blow and 24 hours later, shares in Foxtons, a large lettings agency, plunged by 14.4%.
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Strict new rules on home-sharing came into force last month that have radically reduced the number of lettings on sites such as Airbnb Inc.
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I don't think anyone beyond our walls knew about the conversion process or Lettings, even though everyone in the church had seen both many times.
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Under the new regulations, second-homes cannot be used for short-term lettings unless already approved for short-term tourism letting by the local planning authority.
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"It's a mixed picture, but across the board, sales and lettings, North and South, August was a much better month than June and July," Wilson said.
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It added that total income in the sales and lettings business is expected to decline 14 percent for the full year, reflecting a weak fourth quarter.
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Countrywide, the country's biggest lettings and estate agency company, has been hit by a slowdown in the property market since Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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London residential rents have risen by an average 13 percent each year since 2011, data accurate to December 2015 from lettings agency Your Move & Reeds Rains shows.
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Revenues at its lettings business fell only 3 percent last year but government plans to ban fees charged to tenants is likely to hit its business model.
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Intu stock tumbled to a record low after the company lowered its rental income forecast, blaming retail collapses and a slowdown in new lettings due to Brexit uncertainties.
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The company said on Thursday it had achieved a record six months of lettings totalling 23.4 million pounds, on average 0.5 percent above estimated rental values at December 2016.
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In a first for the country, two men were fined SG$60,000 (US$45,800) each for unauthorized lettings at four apartments using the U.S.-based rental platform, Reuters reports.
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She pointed to several large office lettings and lease extensions, and a number of initiatives in the UK capital, such as Citigroup's recent decision to set up an innovation lab.
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Owners of second homes can apply to planning authorities for a change of permitted use, but where demand for long-term lettings is high, they are unlikely to get permission.
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Owners of second homes can apply to planning authorities for a change of permitted use, but where demand for long-term lettings is high, they are unlikely to win approval.
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"Our team are all between 218 and 2000 and so they're mixing with people similar to their age with any issues that they have," says Jennie Fojtik, head of lettings.
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Revenue from lettings, a strong area for the firm that could be hit as the government introduces a ban on one-off tenant fees, fell 2 percent to 32.1 million pounds.
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Long has run Countrywide with a brief to restore profits at its core sales and lettings business since Alison Platt stepped down as chief executive after a profit warning in January.
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Previously trading under the brand name of University Cribs, Resooma was founded in 2014 by Jack Jenkins, Dan Jefferys and Christian Samuel as a solution aimed specifically at the student lettings market.
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Renewed lettings are up by 10% compared with this time last year; rolling over a contract means tenants can, if necessary, move out more quickly than if they start a new one.
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Long has run the company, with a brief to push core sales and its lettings business back to profitability, since Alison Platt stepped down as chief executive following a profit warning in January.
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In New York, for example, it is banned from offering short-term lettings, while it has battled local government in cities like San Francisco, Seattle and overseas destinations such as Barcelona in Spain.
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Midcaps missed Friday's rally, however, as Intu Properties skidded 8.3 percent to a record low after cutting its rental income forecast, blaming retail collapses and a slowdown in new lettings due to Brexit uncertainties.
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LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - London-focussed estate agent Foxtons posted a 15 percent drop in first-quarter revenue to 24.5 million pounds ($33 million) as it was hit by lower sales and lettings income.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will tackle a severe housing shortage in booming cities such as Dublin by regulating short-term lettings and home-sharing sites such as Airbnb, housing minister Eoghan Murphy said on Thursday.
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The new chief executive of rival Intu Properties cut the shopping centre operator's rental income forecast on Friday, blaming a string of retail collapses and uncertainties stemming from Brexit for slowing down new lettings.
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Outside the large-cap space, UK estate agency Countrywide sank 21 percent after it reported a 22.5 percent drop in full-year earnings, bruised by poor performance in its main sales and lettings business.
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A recent ban on tenant fees that go towards cost of conducting viewings, verifying references and drawing up contracts has shaved off revenue at Foxtons' lettings business, making it harder to achieve organic growth.
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Cities around the world have taken steps to regulate short-term lettings and sites such as Airbnb to discourage landlords from withdrawing their properties from the long-term market in favor of short-term stays.
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DUBLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Ireland will tackle a severe housing shortage in booming cities such as Dublin by regulating short-term lettings and home-sharing sites such as Airbnb, the country's housing minister said on Thursday.
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Countrywide is being run by Executive Chairman Peter Long since Alison Platt stepped down as chief executive after the January profit warning, and is trying to push its core sales and lettings business back to profitable growth.
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The company, which is restructuring to return its sales and lettings business to profitable growth after what it called a "disappointing year", said it was "encouraged" by the early progress that is being made in the business.
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Foxtons said earlier this year that its full-year earnings would fall as sales revenues were hit by the Brexit vote but it has continued to benefit from strong lettings revenue which rose modestly in the third quarter.
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But the firm, known for its fleet of Mini cars and coffee shop-style outlets, said it would improve profitability by targeting higher-volume and higher-value markets in the capital and maintaining a balance between sales and lettings.
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"Although recent announcements by the government on housing are very welcome, the ongoing shortfall of stock across much of the sales and lettings markets is set to continue to underpin prices and rents," said RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn.
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A slight increase in lettings revenue was counter-balanced by a small dip in earnings from sales and its mortgage broking business, as London property demand remains sluggish in many areas after increases in a stamp duty property tax.
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The number of lettings deals on homes worth more than £10m each year has more than doubled since 43, and rose almost a third in the year to March 2016 from the previous year, according to figures from Knight Frank, an estate agency.
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Research by lettings agency Stirling Ackroyd showed London tenants need to live at least six miles (21 km) from London's Charles I statue in Charing Cross, traditionally considered the 'centre' of the capital, in order to pay less than 43,24 pounds in monthly rent.
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LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday expanded the one-year suspension of property tax payments by businesses to include estate agents, lettings agencies and bingo halls which, like many firms, have been forced to close in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus.
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"Our goal is to eventually service all aspects of real estate, ultimately creating a single platform for the industry, with agents at the center of the referral economy," Allon said in response to a question of whether it would tackle more short-term lettings a la Airbnb.
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The firm, known for its coffee shop-style offices, said revenue from its lettings business had fallen in the first three months of 2018 due to a slow start in January and the timing of Easter but that it had seen an up-tick in April.
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The resulting asset information is then combined with a hyperlocal market assessment which is based on two automated valuation models that use historical transaction and lettings data as well as environmental data such as traffic flow, crime statistics, average school/restaurant/cafe ratings, average Airbnb ratings in the area, social media activity, distance to supermarkets/places of worship, etc.
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These include consumer-facing apps like Acasa, which wants to make it easy to move from one houseshare to another, B2B services like the recently troubled Goodlord, which is digitising the rental process on behalf of lettings agencies, and a plethora of online estate agents, such as Open Rent, Home Made and Rentify, that help home owners rent out their property.
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This represents a year- on-year increase of 61.7 percent * Adjusted EBITDA for first half of 2016 amounted to 65.1 million euros, up from 49.2 million euros in 2015 * Earnings from property lettings amounted to 13 million euros for first half of 2016, equivalent to a 55.6 percent rise compared to same period in previous year (39.2 million euros) * FFO increased significantly to 27.4 million euros with FFO I for first half of 2016 contributing by 12.0 million euros and almost double compared with previous year's figure of 6.3 million euros * 2016 FFO guidance increased * Forecast for FFO has been stepped up by roughly 20 percent to an amount of around 55 million euros for 2016 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.8963 euros) (Gdynia Newsroom)
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The Counter-Inflation Act 1973 imposed a further freeze from March 1974 (until March 1975 in England and Wales) (until May 1975 in Scotland). The Furnished Lettings (Rent Allowances) Act 1973 extended the rent allowance scheme to furnished lettings (those contracts within Part VI of the Rent Act 1968) and for certain housing authority furnished lettings, except where the landlord was the Crown or where substantial board was provided.
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PLACES Birmingham Residential Lettings and Sales agent occupy the central ground floor office space.
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Chestertons offer property sales and lettings services. Sales services include property sourcing and mortgage advice, with lettings services covering long and short lets, property and portfolio management. Additional divisions at Chestertons cover leasehold reform, valuations, commercial lease advisory, investment consultancy and refurbishment services.
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"Halo-8 Lettings 'Animals' Out Of Their Cages". The Hollywood Reporter. July 13, 2007.Martin, Peter.
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John D Wood & Co. is a UK estate agents and lettings agency, established in London in 1872.
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The school also offers lettings to external businesses - such as pilates classes for adults - after school hours.
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Longhi is the director of property management company Justmove (Lettings) Limited and owns nine houses in Walsall.
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"WVDOH Announces Lettings of Two Corridor H Projects." Corridor H Pressroom. 1 August 2000. West Virginia Department of Transportation.
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Of this total, just over 15,000 offices were dealing with property sales, 10,000 with residential lettings and around 1,300 with student rentals. There were just over 7,000 offices dealing with both sales and lettings, almost 8,000 offices dealing with sales only, around 3,200 dealing with lettings only and just 65 offices dealing exclusively with student rentals. UK Property Shop also publishes a monthly 'Moving Location Index' report that ranks towns according to the proportion of people wishing to move into or away from that location.
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The first month's rent in advance plus a refundable bond (usually equal to one month's rent) is also generally required. Most residential lettings in the UK are governed by "Assured Shorthold Tenancy" contracts. Assured shorthold tenancies (generally referred to simply as "Shorthold") give less statutory protection than earlier, mostly obsolete, types of residential lettings. Shorthold tenancy agreements are standard contracts; the wording is generally available from legal stationers and on the internet for around £1.00, although most lettings agents will charge £30 to provide one.
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In October 2014 it took over Omega Group Ltd., a private sector provider of residential lettings and management services to the social housing market.
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In 2015 Connells group acquired the Liverpool business of Farrell Heyworth an independent Estate Agent based in the North West of England. In 2015 Connells Group acquired Gascoigne Halman estate agency. In 2016 Connells Group acquired Rook Matthews Sayer estate agency. In 2016 Connells Group acquired Residential Lettings agency Touchstone Residential and rebranded offices to Connells whilst inserting sales teams to all Lettings offices.
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The Sutton, London branch of Foxtons Foxtons, Enfield. Foxtons Group plc is a British estate agency company dealing with both lettings and sales. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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Connells Group provides residential property sales and lettings services, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPCs, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers, auctions, wills and insurance. Connells Group's subsidiaries include Conveyancing Direct (property lawyers), AMG (Asset Management Group), Connells Survey & Valuation, The New Homes Group (including New Homes Mortgage Helpline, New Homes Part Exchange and IMH), TM Group, Vibrant Energy Matters (an EPC provider) Redstone Wills, Just Wills, LMS (a conveyancing and remortgaging panel management provider) and Hearthstone Investments.
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Tenancies eligible to be protected business tenancies (contracted out business tenancies) or partly let for business use are ineligible to be assured tenancies. ;Educational body lettings to students This does not apply to tenancies involving landlords other than the specified universities and colleges. ;Holiday lettings A letting for this purpose cannot be assured. ;By live-in landlords This applies where the landlord lives in another part of the same building in which the let accommodation is situated.
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The distinction between furnished and unfurnished lettings was, for most practical purposes, abolished by the Rent Act 1974. Where the landlord lived replaced the provision of furniture and/or services as the test of Rent Tribunal jurisdiction. The law governing lettings by resident landlords, the principal element constituting a letting subject to "Rent Tribunal" jurisdiction, is now consolidated in Part VII of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984. Rent Tribunals as such were abolished by the Tenant's Rights Etc.
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David returned to Walford in September that year, hoping to reunite with Carol despite her relationship with Masood Ahmed. Eventually, the former couple reconciled but Carol ended her relationship with David on their wedding day when she realised that he still had trouble with commitment, with David subsequently moving to Florida. In 2014, Jane Beale returns to Walford and becomes a partner in Ian's new restaurant. Lucy also opens her own lettings agency, called LB Lettings, with her best friend Lauren Branning.
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The original registration had to be at least two years old. The landlord alone could make an application if the premises were no longer let on a regulated tenancy. A new mandatory ground for possession (Case 20) was introduced for lettings by servicemen. Changes were made to the mandatory grounds for possession for lettings by former owner occupiers and those who own homes intended for retirement, which covered circumstances that could not have been foreseen at the time of the letting.
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The company's practice covers estate management, farm management, property management, forestry, sporting and farm management, commercial property investment, planning and development, architectural services, building surveying, sales, lettings and acquisitions, minerals and telecommunications, wayleaves and easements advice.
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HM Land Registry data is available to provide searchers with sold house prices. The website also lists properties for sale overseas and commercial property lettings and sales.Bishop, Adrian (2 March 2016). OnTheMarket launches dedicated overseas property channel.
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Khubaib also owned a lettings agency and took under-aged girls to flats under his control, where he and his friends would give them alcohol and play them sexually explicit music videos as part of the sexual grooming.
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The centre of Stopsley Village contains many shops on either side of the road including a Barclays branch (now closed), Co-Operative supermarket, Henderson newsagents (now closed), Cafe, Tesco Express, Chemist, Hardware, charity shops, Sandwich stores and Off licences/Wine stores. There are also several takeaways and restaurants such as; Ashuka, Stopsley Surma, May Sek Oriental, Jay Raj Indian Cuisine, Pankaj Sor. The HSBC branch that was based in Stopsley closed its doors in September, 2015. Many estate and lettings agents are also situated in the Stopsley Village and Jansel House area, Connors, Haart, Taylors and Acorn Residential Lettings.
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Elsewhere Ash, already leagues away from Raif, will become initiated into the mysterious blood lettings of the Sull, all the while riding in haste to reach the safety of the Sull lands, guarded by her two Far Riders and pursued by the maeraith she has been unintentionally released.
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Lucy and Lauren start up their own letting agents company, called LB Lettings. While having a sexual affair with her best friend Lauren's father, Max, Lucy also has sex with newcomer Lee Carter (Danny-Boy Hatchard). He wants to begin a relationship but Lucy is more interested in Max.
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It applied the provisions of the 1943 and 1946 Acts to contracts, for both furnished and unfurnished lettings, under which the tenant shared some living accommodation with the landlord. Where the tenant shared some living accommodation with persons other than the landlord, it applied the Rent Acts to the contract.
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Lucy asks Lauren to go into business with her. Although initially reluctant, Lauren agrees and they set up "LB Lettings". Lauren becomes suspicious that Lucy is dating Jake when he sets up the website for their business and Lucy begins arranging secret meetings. Lucy soothes her anxieties but she is seeing Max.
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It was reported on 6 April that property sales and lettings had not "dramatically dropped", and that despite house viewings including those by surveyors and conveyancers being cancelled due to the lockdown measures, estate agents were remaining optimistic while it was too early to estimate the impact of the pandemic on property in Guernsey.
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Available online at . Accessed 31 July 2017. and the purchase of the letting business of Humberts in July of the same year."Humberts lettings sold; Chestertons on the market ". Letting Agent Today, 3 July 2014. Available online at . Accessed 31 July 2017. Further acquisitions over the coming years included the firm of John Curtis in HertfordshireRenshaw, Rosalind (2015).
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In 2009 and 2010 Quorum made the headlines with a series of lettings including some notable job creating inward investments. Almost 250,000sqft of office space was let to six new companies including major occupiers such as Tesco Bank, Balfour Beatty and Convergys. British Engines relocated their central core services teams to the park in December 2013.
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The beach has earned a Seaside Award and a Green Coast Award, similar to a Blue Flag beach award but for rural beaches with safe bathing. There is a narrow slipway for launching small boats, limited car parking (charges applies at certain times) and a public toilet. Dogs are allowed on the beach. Holiday cottage lettings are available.
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The company was created in 2000 as a joint venture between four of the UK's largest property agents: Halifax, Countrywide plc, Royal & Sun Alliance, & Connells under the name Rightmove.co.uk Limited. Rightmove: History It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 15 March 2006 at which time it became Rightmove plc. In 2007 it bought 67% of Holiday Lettings Limited.
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Westlake is married to his wife, Claire, and together, they have two daughters. He continued to resided in Ipswich, even after announcing his retirement from professional football. Westlake previously resided in Canada but following his release by Montreal Impact, his family moved back to Ipswich. Since then, Westlake opened up a lettings company and project manage new builds across Ipswich.
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FindaProperty.com, prior to a 2012 merger with Zoopla, was a commercial sales and lettings listings website for the UK consumer residential housing market. It had offices in London and Brighton and listed approximately a million properties uploaded by estate agents for a monthly fee. In April 2012 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) agreed a merger between findaproperty.com and Zoopla.
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The original entrance by the stairway on the south front was re-instated for this purpose. In 2007 the university sold the estate - but not the house - to the Crown Estate in a deal worth "over £35m". Its 3600 acres included 18 tenanted farms, 18 farmland lettings, 52 residential properties and 13 commercial leases generating a total rent roll of £0.5m.
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The Parish Council is involved in the provision of allotment gardens, recreation areas, lettings of halls, environmental improvements, provision of cash grants to local organisations and the consideration of local planning matters. It also makes representations to Local Government, National Government, Police, Health Service, Passenger Transport Authority and other organisations on matters which are of concern to the local population.
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Three important Acts were passed in the next two years rather surprisingly by a Conservative administration. The Rent Act 1974 brought full protection to those existing furnished lettings where the landlord was not resident in the same premises. Previously they had had only limited protection under the 1943, 1946 and 1949 Acts. The concept of "resident landlord" was entirely new.
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In 1941, two German Heinkel He 111 bombers crash landed on the island, and their crews were captured. In 1969, Lundy was purchased by British millionaire Jack Hayward, who donated it to the National Trust. It is managed by the Landmark Trust, a conservation charity that derives its income from day trips and holiday lettings. As of 2007, the island had a population of 28.
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In the same year, Connells acquired independent estate agency Burchell Edwards including conveyancing firm Be Legal. In 2012 Connells acquired a 25% strategic stake in residential property fund manager, Hearthstone Investments plc. In 2013 Connells Group initiated a major expansion programme for its residential lettings business. In 2014 Connells Group acquired the Peter Alan chain, which operates in south Wales, from the Principality Building Society for £16.4m.
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A month later, publishing house Dods Group let almost on Level 11, becoming The Shard's 28th office occupier. In December, Kraft Heinz relocated their European and UK headquarters from Hayes in Hillingdon to The Shard after taking on Levels 20 & 21\. The Shard offices were announced as fully let in October 2017, following lettings to Mitie and existing occupiers, Foresight Group and Warwick Business School.
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Build it... and they will show , GQ. In 2013, the project opened a 3-storey retail and co-working space on Camden High Street.Deputy Mayor helps Camden’s creative entrepreneurs celebrate 1st year of success, Greater London Authority.How we did it: Boosting vitality through pop-up lettings, Planning Resource. From 2015 to 2017, the project used National Temperance Hospital ahead of its demolition for HS2 at Euston.
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Zenas King was hired by Moseley as a salesperson and represented Moseley at many bridge lettings, mainly in southern Ohio. King remained in Ohio and started his own bridge building business in Cleveland. In 1861, Moseley decided to move the company to Boston, Massachusetts. Moseley moved his business to Boston when he discovered marketing his iron bridge designs were ideal for areas in the New England area.
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The current regime under the 1995 Act for regulating tenancies, commonly known as Farm Business Tenancies, permits the creation of a clearly and easily terminable interest, whether by a periodic tenancy or a fixed term. In the cycle of animal husbandry and land use and improvement, the long-term effect of the Farm Business Tenancy on the landscape of Britain is not yet proven. It was predicted by landowners and other industry spokesmen that the 1995 Act would create opportunities for new tenants by allowing large areas of new lettings but this has not happened in practice as most landowners have continued to favor share farming or management agreements over formal tenancies and the majority of new lettings under the Act have been to existing farmers, often owner-occupiers taking on extra land at significantly higher rents than could be afforded by a traditional tenant.
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The experience prompted Hunt to expand into lettings, relying on the additional income stream to cover operating costs during future downturns. Other notable Foxtons initiatives from Hunt included an early web presence, initiated in 1999, and an 800-strong fleet of branded Minis driven by agents. During Hunt's tenure Foxtons grew to 20 branches, over 1,600 employees in the UK and US, £110m in turnover and £34m profits.
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The National Approved Letting Scheme, NALS, is an accreditation scheme in the United Kingdom for lettings and management agents. It aims to offer peace of mind to landlords and tenants in knowing that they are dealing with a firm which agrees to meet defined standards of customer service, together with having in place the necessary insurances to protect clients' money plus a customer complaints procedure offering independent redress.
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Field sports interests include grouse moors at Edinglassie, Forest of Birse and the Hill of Fare on Dunecht. An in-hand pheasant and partridge shoot is run at Dunecht while other Estates have low ground shooting tenants. The Estates’ have two salmon fishing beats on the River Dee, Lower Crathes/West Durris and Birse. The fishings at the former are let to Lax-a while the Birse lettings are managed direct.
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There are 280 single bedrooms in shared houses of six to eight students, all with shared facilities including a communal lounge and kitchen/dining area. HudLets work with halls of residences and private landlords to ensure students have access to high-quality accommodation at a fair price during their studies. Incorporated In 2014, Huddersfield Students' Union Lettings LTD (trading as HudLets) is a subsidiary of Huddersfield Students' Union.
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The Property Ombudsman publishes an annual report which outlines the proportion of total cases supported. In 2017, 62% of sales cases and 67% of lettings cases were supported in favour of consumers. The Ombudsman is approved by Government, Trading Standards, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute and the Ombudsman Association as an impartial, unbiased and independent body, though decisions will inevitably be criticised by those parties who have lost.
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Rent accounts were balanced in the afternoons and arrangements were made with contractors for repairs. On Thursdays and Fridays arrears were pursued, contractors' invoices paid, new tenancy lettings and tenants' moves organised. If any of Hill's assistants had spare time, whether during normal working hours or in frequent voluntary after-hours working, it was used to promote tenants' associations and after- work and children's after-school clubs and societies.Wyatt, p.
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Anderson was sometime Deputy Lieutenant for the County of the City of Edinburgh. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Edinburgh University and he also received a similar degree from Aberdeen University in 1924.Aberdeen University Review, Vols 11–12; Aberdeen University Press, 1924 p166 He was Chairman of the Scottish Committee on Aliens, 1917–18 and, more prosaically, was Chairman of the Committee on Glasgow Market Lettings in 1933.
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It covers the residential property market including sales and lettings throughout the United Kingdom. It is the third biggest property portal provider in terms of traffic and competes with companies including Rightmove and Zoopla. The key proposition of the business is the creation of an agent-backed, full-scale property portal by offering a premier search experience to consumers whilst charging sustainably fair prices to agents. OnTheMarket plc is listed on the AIM market on the London Stock Exchange.
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Later he served aboard HMS Mercury as a fleetwork instructor. Briggs was promoted first to leading signalman in March 1942, and then yeoman of signals in March 1943\. Briggs remained in the Royal Navy after the end of the war, became an officer, and served until 1973 in a variety of capacities. Briggs retired on 2 February 1973, with the rank of lieutenant, settled in the south of England and worked in Fareham as a furnished lettings manager.
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He came to Kempton often in the next two decades and less frequently in the later part of his reign. Jousts were held "in Kempton field" in 1270. Edward I visited Kempton comparatively rarely and later kings seldom or never went there. Many apparent references to their visits in the 14th and 15th centuries (perhaps too the jousting mention) seem to be Kennington which was closer to the convenient grouping of courtiers' customary London homes and lettings.
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Estate agents who handle lettings of commercial property normally charge a fee of 7 to 15% of the first year's rent, plus the whole of the first month's rent. If two agents are charging 10%, they will split the fee between them. Estate agents selling commercial property (known as investment agents) typically charge 1% of the sale price. The fees charged by residential letting agents vary, depending on whether the agent manages the property or simply procures new tenants.
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It houses the De Montfort University Students' Union, comprising various societies such as Demon FM a student radio station; Demon TV; and The Demon, a student-run newspaper published fortnightly through term time. It also has a Student Night Club called Injunction with two rooms on the second floor. The Union operates a lettings agency in a joint venture with the University of Leicester Students Union. The service which operates from both campuses is known as SULETS.
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Between AEST 23:57, 2 February 2011, and 00:27, 3 February 2011, the eye of Cyclone Yasi passed directly over Bedarra Island as a Category 5 tropical cyclone. Bedarra Island Resort and a number of private homes were damaged with buildings left in splinters, facilities in ruins and gardens stripped bare. After a major cleanup and reinvestment Bedarra Island Resort and the seven privately owned houses on the island have been fully repaired and open for holiday lettings.
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The management agreement details precisely which services are managed by the TMO on behalf of the landlord. The extent of the devolution in service can vary enormously, particularly between small and large TMOs, but may typically include day-to-day repairs, allocations and lettings, tenancy management, cleaning and care taking and rent collection/recovery. The TMO can take a number of legal forms. Registered TMOs may be a co-operative, or set up under corporate law.
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When Lauren reopens LB Lettings for business, she discovers the email intended for her but read by Lucy on the night of her death. The sender is asking that they meet and Lauren suspects it was sent by Lucy's killer. She takes the information to the police but they tell her they are already looking into the matter. Lauren arranges to meet the person herself at a cafe on Walford Common and is stunned to discover it is her former lover, Jake.
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In 2009, The Keskidee was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme based on oral history interviews conducted by Alan Dein as part of the King's Cross Voices project."The Keskidee centre on radio 4", Archives and Identities – UCL AHRC Community Archives project 2008–9.The Keskidee, BBC Radio 4. On 7 April 2011, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Keskidee Centre,Martyn Glynn, "Keskidee Centre to celebrate 40th anniversary", Net-Lettings, 30 March 2011.
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It is revealed that Jake, under a different guise, sent an email to LB Lettings asking to meet Lauren, which was later read by Lucy. Lucy met with an intoxicated Jake on Walford Common, with Jake claiming that she sent him home in a taxi and he did not see her again. Lauren does not believe his claims, however, and thinks that he killed Lucy. He tries to convince her he is telling the truth but becomes forceful with her.
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Under section 31, the Secretary of State still has a "reserve power" to limit rents by order. Specifically, anywhere in England or Wales, an order may be passed "(a) restricting or preventing increases of rent for dwellings which would otherwise take place, or (b) restricting the amount of rent which would otherwise be payable on new lettings of dwellings" for any homes, anywhere. This power has not been used in any significant way. Sections 31A to 39 set out "supplementary" provisions.
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Local authorities have been discouraged from building council housing since 1979 following the election of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher as prime minister. The Parker Morris standard was abolished for those that were built, resulting in smaller room sizes and fewer facilities. The Right to Buy was introduced, resulting in the move of some of the best stock from public tenanted to private owner occupation. Since the year 2000, "choice-based lettings" (CBL) have been introduced to help ensure social housing was occupied speedily as tenants moved.
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The planning application was submitted on 25 November 2008 by AURA Ltd, a local education partnership company in which the council has a 10% share, and was conditionally granted on 5 March 2009. Building work by contractors Sir Robert McAlpine commenced late in the summer of 2009, on the all-weather pitch, and the all the new sports facilities was completed by summer 2011. The synthetic turf pitch was first used on 2 December 2009, and is available for lettings out of school hours.
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Huddersfield Students' Union (HSU) represents, supports and advises students on all aspects of their time at the university. HSU is a charity based on campus, led by students for students, although they work closely with the university, it is a completely separate organisation. The Union is home to over 100 student-led Sports Clubs and Societies and 5 Student Networks helping members making change on and off campus. The Students' Union is also home to a lettings agency (HudLets), an Advice Centre and Shop.
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Local amenities include a post office, a supermarket, a chemist, hair salons and barbers, an estate agency and lettings agency, a hardware and motor parts outlet, a repair garage, butchers, a newsagent, a library,Notts County Council Retrieved 24 March 2016. the Miners' Welfare, a tearoom, a primary and nursery school,Notts Help Yourself Retrieved 24 March 2016. a Pentecostal church, a Chinese restaurant, a community centre, a fish and chip shop, dentists' and doctors' surgeries, care homes, and a garden centre.Jacksdale and Westwood Community & Heritage Retrieved 24 March 2016.
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In retrospect, his illness might be diagnosed as a heart-rhythm- problem (such as atrial fibrillation) and/or a mild form of familial dysautonomia, a hereditary disease of Ashkenazi Jews, which often brings with it a curvature of the spine and epilepsy-like symptoms in times of stress.Tree (2007), p. 69, Footnote 143, medical analysis by Dr. Channah Maayan, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. Mendelssohn was treated with China bark, blood lettings on the foot, leeches applied to the ears, enemas, foot baths, lemonade and mainly vegetarian food. “No mental stress whatsoever” was ordered.
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Susan Benjamin has researched communications and the cultural and political history of food for almost 40 years. She is founder of True Treats Historic Candy, the nation's only research-based candy store, which was listed by Food Network magazine, delish.com and Holiday Lettings, Trip Advisor's international arm, as one of the nation's top 50 “Sweet Spots.” A former communications strategist and college professor, she participated in a White House initiative under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and has written nine books on related subjects, and published in legal journals, newspapers and online publications.
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Derwent Living is an independent, not-for-profit provider of affordable and specialist housing in the Midlands, Yorkshire and the South East. As well as homes to rent for people on lower incomes, Derwent Living offers properties for retired people, homes for sale through part-buy, part-rent schemes, residential lettings and key-worker accommodation. Derwent Living is the trading name of Derwent Housing Association Limited, based at Pride Park in Derby, United Kingdom. Derwent Living relocated from two different sites on Phoenix Street and Stuart Street, Derby to its current headquarters in December 2003.
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Tribunals technically comprised members drawn from one of the five rent assessment panels of England, constituted under Schedule 10 of the Rent Act 1977. Such members also sat on rent assessment committees which determined Fair Rents under s. 70 of the Rent Act 1977, rent tribunals under the same Act which determined rents payable under Restricted Contracts (room lettings) and residential property tribunals which were created by the Housing Act 2004. A legally qualified chairman sitting with a Chartered Surveyor and a lay member usually constituted the tribunal.
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Many larger councils suffered from delays in processing Housing Benefit claims. Delays of up to a year were reported. Delays and rent restrictions were so endemic in the system that it became common to see classified advertisements for lettings stating No DSS. (That is the Department of Social Security, now called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), but still widely known under its old name.) It usually meant that the landlord was not willing to consider letting to a tenant who would be dependent on housing benefit to pay the rent.
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A second committee set up in 1943 under Viscount Ridley to review the working of the rent restriction Acts formed a very favourable opinion of the Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act 1943 and recommended that England and Wales should follow suit. The Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act 1946 established a separate system of protection—modelled on Scottish legislation that involved rent tribunals setting reasonable rents—for contracts referred to them for furnished lettings. Previously these had not been subject to any effective control under the Rent Acts.
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It was developed from farmland in the 18th century. One block to the east and south sees a fall of about three metres whereas its eminence rises gradually six main blocks to beyond the north of Marble Arch in the other direction (see Hyde Park). Its homes gained fashionable status from the outset: grand townhouses seeing use as seasonal lettings (rentals) and/or longer-term London homes of nobility -- then of other wealthy capitalists as much. In heritage and architecture, twenty-two, approximately half of its town houses, are listed.
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Your Move Estate Agents has over 160 branches across the UK. Your Move's services include residential property services, lettings, and mortgage and remortgage services. Your Move was originally set up in the late 1980s by well known UK insurers, General Accident. By 1989, GA Property Services, latterly trading as General Accident Property Services (GAPS), owned 69 estate agencies and in 1995, the surveying division of GAPS became a separate company - GA Valuation and Survey (GAVS). In November 1999, following the General Accident and Commercial Union merger, GAPS rebranded to Your Move and GAVS rebranded to e.surv.
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This was removed during refurbishment in the early 2000s when the centre adopted its Princes Mall name. The mall suffered a decline in popularity in the early 2000s with 12 of the retail units empty at one stage. Major new lettings to fashion retailers CULT and AB10 may indicate the reversal of this decline helped by the improvements carried out by Network Rail to the Waverley Steps access to Waverley Station by the installation of new stairs and escalators, with a glazed roof, and lifts. Edinburgh's main tourist information centre was located within the same development.
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The following lists aim to be complete and illustrate both the variety of structures and geographical spread of the trust. In the Trust's early years, prior to the incorporation of the charity, properties were often bought with the support of the Manifold Trust. The Trust's current portfolio also includes properties bequeathed to the Trust, leased, or operated through a management agreement on behalf of other owners. Dates of acquisition and first lettings are shown where available from Landmark Trust or other published sources; time differences between dates often reflect previous/current ownership and the extent of restoration required.
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Naomi bought her first property—a garden flat in Camden Town—at age 26 and began buying, renovating and selling property on for profit as a hobby while she pursued her advertising career. Feeling that there were no real challenges left for her in advertising, and recognising a gap in the market for assisting investors like herself in the London real estate market, she established London Central Portfolio (LCP) in 1989 to provide a full asset management service including property finding, refurbishment and lettings. She is director and chief executive, as well as holding directorships on further LCP group companies established in 2013–2014 and a number of listed property funds.
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" The firm's office in London's Notting Hill Gate neighbourhood distinguished itself from competing estate agents by opening a then-unusual 74 hours a week, including weekend and evening hours, rather than the conventional 40 hours worked by rival estate agents. Foxtons expanded to other London districts, each new branch offering a 0% commission in its first three months of operation to attract customers, thereafter charging higher rates than competitors. The property crash of 1988–94 had a severe impact on the firm. In a 2010 interview, Hunt recalled: :“…Foxtons had no significant lettings department and as a consequence it barely hung on – we were close to going bust every day".
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Woolverstone Hall, main building Woolverstone Hall is a large country house, now in use as a school and available at times as a function venue,Lettings and Facilities at Ipswich High School website. Retrieved 16 August 2020 located south of the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is set in on the banks of the River Orwell. Built in 1776 for William Berners by the architect John Johnson of Leicestershire, it is an outstanding example of English Palladian architecture and is a Grade I listed building while associated buildings are Grade II. From 1951 to 1990, it housed Woolverstone Hall School, a boarding school operated by London County Council (LCC).
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Assured tenancies were introduced by the Housing Act 1988 that applies to tenancies entered from its commencement date or those assured tenancies it converted from the Housing Act 1980. The Act replaced most of the greater rent protection under the Rent Act 1977 and in rarer cases, other Rent Acts. However, since 28 February 1997, all new residential tenancies with three exceptions are deemed to be assured shorthold tenancies.Commercial Property: Part III - Residential Tenancies, P. Butt, College of Law Publishing (Guildford), 2008 These exceptions are those excluded by notice before or after the tenancy, those specifying it is not a shorthold, and lettings to existing assured tenants.
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ACORN UK has combined online organising via social media with ACORNs traditional door-knocking approach, to organise transient private sector tenants. The group has also combined local direct- action "member defence" actions (including eviction resistances and picketing of rogue landlords/letting agents) with larger regional and national campaigns for housing rights (for example winning regional local authority support for including the standards of their "ethical lettings charter" in the regional West of England Rental Standard and persuading Santander bank to drop a buy to let mortgage clause requiring landlords to raise rents). They also worked alongside Generation Rent to register and mobilise the "renters vote" in the 2016 general election.
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What about the homeless? The Independent, 17 October 2010Real Lettings, Real Lives Broadway Homelessness and Support, 13 October 2010 He is also an active supporter of the Countryside Alliance.Countryside Alliance Update Countryside Alliance, autumn 2010 In August 2014, Spencer was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on that issue. Phil Spencer was interviewed by The Times in May 2018 about his own move and the launch of Move iQ where "he hopes to help people through the process and answer some of the questions most commonly asked".
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Isurv is published by the RICS Knowledge Business, which is a division of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Isurv covers a range of topics relating to the property and construction industries. They are: # Valuation # Commercial property # Building surveying # Construction # Construction contracts # Rural # Residential lettings # Sustainability # Planning # Infrastructure # APC and AssocRICS The following RICS standards are available on isurv: # RICS Valuation Standards (the 'RICS Red Book') # RICS new rules of measurement #RICS property measurement There are sections of the site that guide property professionals through the various routes to RICS membership and provide resources for continuing professional development (CPD). The development of content for the site is overseen by leading figures in the property and construction industries.
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London, Collins They placed great emphasis on a good diet and healthy lifestyle to restore equilibrium; drugs were used more to support healing than to cure disease. Complementary medicines have evolved through history and become formalised from primitive practices; although many were developed during the 19th century as alternatives to the sometimes harmful practices of the time, such as blood-lettings and purgation. In the UK, the medical divide between CAM and conventional medicine has been characterised by conflict, intolerance and prejudice on both sides and during the early 20th century CAM was virtually outlawed in Britain: healers were seen as freaks and hypnotherapists were subject to repeated attempts at legal restriction.Fulder, S. (1996).
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Since 1969, when it became "Sloopy's Nitespot and Discotheque", the building has been used as a nightclub. By 1990 it was operating as "Fozzie's Club"; it later became "The Sanctuary", "The Shrine", "Club New York" and "The Church" before being renamed "New Hero"—the name it bore until its closure in 2011. In January 2012, the owners of a nightclub in Worthing announced that they wanted to convert the building into the "House of the Lost"—a two-storey maze with a horror theme; planning permission for this was granted in April 2012. By 2014 the building was vacant again, and in October 2014 it was acquired by local lettings agency and theatre company founder Roger Kay.
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Furnished lettings were excluded from the Rent Acts until 1943 when under the Rent of Furnished Houses Control (Scotland) Act 1943 a system of control, administered by Rent Tribunals, was set up for the first time in Great Britain. The 1943 Act was a temporary Act intended to be in force until six months after the cessation of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 but was subsequently extended by successive annual Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. Rent Tribunals were initially empowered to fix reasonable rents for houses or rooms let furnished or with services, but in 1949 their powers were considerably enlarged by the Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act 1949 . Both these Acts were repealed and consolidated by Part VII of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1971.
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Rent allowances were introduced in Scotland by the Housing (Financial Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1972. To prevent rent allowance being paid towards excessive rents payment was made conditional upon either a fair rent having been registered or the local authority being satisfied that the contractual rent was not above a fair rent. This latter requirement led to Rent Officers being deluged with requests from local authorities for informal advice on what a fair rent was likely to be. The Act of 1972 required local authorities to set up rent allowance schemes in respect of unfurnished houses in the private sector (including housing associations) but by the Furnished Lettings (Rent Allowances) Act 1973 certain furnished tenants in both the public and private sectors were made eligible for rent allowances.
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Khan vowed that if elected, he would freeze public transport fares in London for four years. He claimed that this would deprive Transport for London (TfL) of £452 million, but TfL stated that it would deprive them of £1.9 billion, taking into account projected population growth over this period. Although he had previously backed Heathrow expansion, he now opposed it, instead calling for expansion at Gatwick Airport; he was likely aware that supporting the former was a vote loser in London. Aware of the severe housing shortage in London, he also spoke of clamping down on foreign property investors, and proposed the establishment of both a "London living rent" tenure and a not-for-profit lettings agency that could undercut commercial operators in order to ease the high cost of renting in the city.
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In April 2020, The Guardian reported that tenants at Somerford Grove, east London, were denied a 20% rent cut, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and their allegedly precarious employment situations. The renters are said to have been told by the lettings agent, acting on behalf of the three corporate landlords all “majority owned” by Christodoulou, that the request was “unreasonable” and “unrealistic”. The agent had suggested that “any drop in tenants’ income would be minimised by a reduction in spending on holidays, entertainment, travel, clothes and lunches.” London mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted: “This is a prime example of how unrealistic it is to expect landlords & tenants to sort difficulties out amongst themselves,” and that the story is “exactly why” he is calling on government to “introduce immediate measures to protect tenants who go into arrears” because of the public health emergency.
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Garratt Lane entrance, showing a redeveloped and extended part of the centre (on the left, with the cinema above the shops), and the lower 1971 structure (on the right) Southside is now owned by Metro Shopping Fund (a partnership between Land Securities and Delancey, which owns several other London shopping centres, including the nearby ShopStop at Clapham Junction). The centre continues to be progressively redeveloped.Wandsworth Guardian - £20m redevelopment of Wandsworth Shopping Centre In February 2010, work started to reconfigure the northern end of the centre,Transforming Southside - Lettings and development map creating larger retail units and an enhanced street frontage, and linking with a major retail and residential development that is scheduled to take place on an adjacent site following the departure of the Ram Brewery from Wandsworth town centre. The smaller units in the North Mall were amalgamated to provide a large anchor store (covering let to TK Maxx.
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All Saints Church, Hereford One of the most successful church reordering schemes in England is the award-winning conversion of All Saints in the West Midlands cathedral city of Hereford, completed in 1999 and designed by local architect Rod Robinson. All Saints is the oldest parish church in Hereford (parts of its interior date back to the late-12th century), yet in 1991 it came perilously close to being closed and deconsecrated. The solution to the dwindling congregations and spiralling maintenance costs was to 'insert' a café at the west end of the nave, linked to a new mezzanine eating area 'suspended' above the south arcade, and to sacrifice the church's South Chapel, which is now available for commercial lettings such as arts and crafts exhibitions. Both the central nave and chancel, as well as the Lady Chapel, are retained as areas of worship.
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The new Conservative government passed the Rent Act 1957 which decontrolled all the more valuable houses and reintroduced a system of gradual decontrol in a revised form. lt also transformed the method of fixing the maximum rent payable by tenants by introducing a formula based upon rateable value. Coming into effect on 6 July, the 1957 Act immediately decontrolled all dwelling houses and all contracts for furnished lettings of dwelling houses, with rateable values on 7 November 1956 exceeding £40 in the Metropolitan Police District or the City of London and Scotland, and £30 elsewhere in England and Wales; and tenancies granted for a period exceeding 21 years. No new tenancies were to be subject to control, whatever the rateable value of the premises, unless granted to a tenant who was immediately before its creation a controlled tenant of the same premises or premises that included them.
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In 1936 the first Connells estate agency branch was opened in Luton, Bedfordshire. In 1969 Connells' estate agency branch network was acquired by the Constantine Group. Connells was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. Connells was sold by Constantine Group in 1991, and acquired by Scottish Widows. In the same year, Connells acquired the western division of Prudential Property Services, increasing its number of branches to around 150. In 1996 Connells was acquired by Skipton Building Society which bought a major shareholding in the company alongside Connells' senior management. In 2000 Connells played a leading role in the launch and development of Rightmove Connells acquired Sequence estate agency in 2003', increasing its estate agency network to around 500 branches. In the same year, Connells acquired estate agency Sharman Quinney. In 2004 Connells Group wins first industry awards at Estate Agency of the Year Awards and Lettings Agency of the Year Awards.
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Very few councils are now reporting backlogs, although the recession has seen an increase in case-load which has resulted in the Government granting Local Authorities an additional £45 million for 2009/10 in order to ensure continued good performance. In practice, lettings agencies will usually obtain credit references on prospective tenants and, once the tenants have moved in, they are ambivalent as to whether tenants claim housing benefit or not, as long as the rent is paid on time. Local Housing Allowance is designed to ensure that landlords do not have a reason to discriminate against tenants on Housing Benefit, as in most cases there will be no need for a landlord to know that the tenant is on Housing Benefit, and the tenant can know in advance if rent will be met in full. Some landlord organisations have raised concerns about Local Housing Allowance as they believe it has made rents more difficult to collect from those on Housing Benefit.
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Conditions at the school at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth may have contracted the tuberculosis from which they died, were probably no worse than those at many other schools of the time. (For example, several decades before the Brontë sisters' experience at Cowan Bridge, Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra contracted typhus at a similar boarding school, and Jane nearly died. The Austen sisters' education, like that of the Brontë sisters, was continued at home.) Nevertheless, Charlotte blamed Cowan Bridge for her sisters' deaths, especially its poor medical care – chiefly, repeated emetics and blood-lettings – and the negligence of the school's doctor – who was the director's brother-in-law. Charlotte's vivid memories of the privations at Cowan Bridge were poured into her depiction of Lowood School in Jane Eyre: the scanty and at times spoiled food, the lack of heating and adequate clothing, the periodic epidemics of illness such as "low fever" (probably typhus), the severity and arbitrariness of the punishments, and even the harshness of particular teachers (a Miss Andrews who taught at Cowan Bridge is thought to have been Charlotte's model for Miss Scatcherd in Jane Eyre).
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English law and lending eschews the concept of flying freehold entire properties, such as flats. The solution was to set up a standard model of any flat ownership based on landlord and tenant but which is not seen in much of Europe where a more commonhold system of ownership is common, as long-term flat owners wish to gain a greater than 'transient' or 'time-barred' interest in their home. Such long leases were already in use in housing, as before purpose-built apartments were built, an aristocratic or other large capitalist landlord could co-steer the successful, competitive development of their urban estates; these took the initial form of "building leases" then leases to allow the flexibility of the landlord deciding whether to create apartments, extensions, shorter-term lettings all of which liberties have been tempered by law or by secured lending codes to enhance the status of long-term lessees. The dozen or so private great collections of reversions continue the landlord-tenant relation with piecemeal reductions, across the Central London grander residential zones, in the leasehold valuation tribunals referred to as "Prime Central London".
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