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50 Lettings News email:
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What’s new and who to look out for in the lettings business and the first in
our series of Practice Notes – legal info to help you manage your business. Editorial
Editorial Director Sheila Manchester
54 Start-ups in recession Art Director Karen Bates
You may call them mad, but they are making a go of it. We look at
companies who have made a go of it against the odds. Advertising
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56 NALS – are they leading the way? Graham Manchester
The National Approved Letting Scheme says they are the logical choice to email:
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set the agenda for regulation. Tel: 0844 800 3085
58 Letting Update Journal Joint Managing Directors
More select edits from the UK’s most respected lettings information service. Sheila Manchester
This month new regs on cancellation of contracts are examined. email:
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60 Squatters rights. And wrongs!
Squatters could be more than a serious inconvenience – they could end up Grant Leonard
owning your property if you aren’t careful. Here’s how to avoid trouble. email:
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63 Ask the expert
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68 Rural land management
communicating with ProP erty P rofessionals
How a small software company has developed its products to make life
easier in the sticks for rural property owners.
70 The £42bn lending gap
£42bn of debt lent against property is up for repayment this year. Or not.
72 Tenant power OH, WHAT A TANGLED
Tenants are ganging up on their landlords in the commercial world.
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74 Hold the back page!
handling hiPs squatters rights
How the industry is coming to Landlords beware – they’ve got
terms with unwelcome regulation a lot more than you may think
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