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With the high level of demand for rental properties in E14, it is easy to see why many people think that acting as a landlord will be a good way to generate income. If you have funds available to invest in property, or you have a satisfactory credit history and financial status that you can obtain a mortgage for property investment, acting as a landlord can provide you with a better lifestyle.
However, it is important to be aware that being a Landlord isn't easy. There is a difference between good Landlords and bad Landlords. Over time, good Landlords find that the process becomes simple and they can make good money without a lot of work and effort, but unfortunately, there are a lot of bad Landlords out there. Bad Landlords don't provide a good standard of service and expect to make money from little work or effort. In the long run, they lose out and often ending up in debt or losing out on a lot of money.
Being a Landlord is a good idea if you are committed, and here are some top tips on how you can achieve this:
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So, what is it that a property owner actually wants from their estate or letting agent?
I was speaking with someone the other day who had worked at Purplebricks for 2 years. His experience from being there was that property owners DIDN’T want to use an online agent, they actually wanted to use a traditional estate agent, they just didn’t want to pay through the nose for it.
Jayne Dowle, who was kind enough to mention Proper Local a few weeks back in The Times, published this blog Money for old rope: take care when choosing an estate agent in The Spectator recently.
Jayne picks up on some interesting points.
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So, it would seem that I’m not the only person who is considering the question.
Only yesterday Jayne Dowle wrote the article “What it really costs to sell a property” in The Times. Jayne was kind enough to interview me earlier in the week on the subject of estate agents’ fees. We all have to acknowledge that estate agents’ fees make up a large part of moving costs, second only to stamp duty on the next purchase.
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So, in my last post What Is The Future Of Estate Agency? Part 1 I posed the rather valid question:
“Selling a four bedroom £2,000,000 house is not four times more expensive for an estate agent than selling a one bedroom £500,000 flat. So why is the fee four times higher?”
Can I be honest with you? I’ve been struggling with that question ever since I started in estate agency, over 10 years ago.
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So, undoubtedly, the world of estate agency is changing.
But.
How much has it really changed?
I find it easiest to picture it as a spectrum.
At one end we have the traditional (I’m not saying old-fashioned) estate agency, with their (increasingly nicer) offices on a High Street near you. They pride themselves, rightly, on their local knowledge. It’s a no sale, no fee promise. Fees are charged as a percentage of the sale or rental price achieved. They will be there for you all the way through the transaction, from initial valuation, through sale progression, to the day you handover the keys.
