Prices fall | Agent fined | Housing targets

Ignorance is no excuse! Leaseholder and managing agent of a flat in East London were fined after failing to license the property.

Click here to read Landlord and letting agent face combined £30k fine after appeals dismissed.

Agents give their verdict after figures from Nationwide showing house prices fell in November for the first time in two years.

Click here to read It’s a buyers’ market and prices could fall by 25% – or more .

Letting agent failed to return holding deposit within 14-day period specified under the Tenant Fees Act.

Click here to read Housing tribunal orders agent to repay rental deposit to tenant .

Leeds Building Society says desperately needed new homes will not be built if the 300,000 target is dropped.

Click here to read Government warned not to ditch 300k housing target by leading lender .

But NRLA and Shelter agree the Government must unfreeze housing benefit, which is based on rental levels in 2019.

Click here to read Landlords hit back at Shelter’s claims over tenants at risk from eviction .

The November issue – have you read it yet?

In this issue:

• Lastest national house price data

• Politics and rent controls

• Speeding up buying and selling

• How to make money in a downturn

• Web SEO advice

...and much more!

Click here to read The Negotiator November issue – yours to read online.

Nationwide figures reveal a month on month fall in house prices in November, with the typical home now costing £263,788.

Click here to read House prices fall for first time in two years as mortgage rates jump.

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