Tag Archives: lifestyle referencing

“Pay As You Go” Credit & Lifestyle Reference Coming Soon

03/04/2013 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

Why is this a completely unique service, for all landlords and letting agents to use? The UK’s only “Pay As You Go” Credit AND Lifestyle Tenant Reference Lowest possible price (from only £4.99 +VAT) DOES NOT require membership fees DOES NOT require “bulk buy” of credit references to receive a “discount” ; ”Pay As You Go” [...]

An open letter to the mainstream media

14/03/2013 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

With the controversy around Universal Credit becoming almost explosive and as rent arrears mount up & the housing benefit monies are spent on other things (drink, drugs, pay day loans, etc – which are extremely detrimental to ALL of our communities) Landlord Referencing Services are now seeing a massive influx of landlords AND letting agents [...]

Historic bell going under eBay hammer

13/12/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

A piece of Weston’s history could go to the highest bidder on eBay this week. The bell, which belonged to St Saviour’s Church in Locking Road, Weston-super-Mare, is now for sale on the internet auction site, with a reserve of £1,000. Click to view on eBay. Paul Routledge, who owns over 100 properties in the [...]

Tenant Referencing unavoidable as Census 2011 reveals renters nearly double in a decade

12/12/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

Census 2011 figures show that the number of people renting from a private landlord have nearly doubled in the past decade, whilst home-owners with a mortgage fell by 800,000. The proportion of residents of England and Wales living in private rented accommodation increased from 9 % in 2001 to 15 % last year. In 2001 [...]

1 in 5 landlords ignore specialist insurances

11/12/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

New research from Direct Line for Business reveals that almost 1 in 5 landlords do not have specialist insurance – mistaking that their standard home insurance policies also cover their rental properties. DL4B research also shows that : Landlords incur average annual costs of £8,256 from their rental portfolios. The average rental portfolio comprised of [...]

Prison threat for Britains oldest ASBO couple

04/12/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

After making their neighbours lives a living hell an elderly couple have become the oldest people to receive an ASBO, and have been threatened with prison if they breach it. Joseph Gallagher, 85, and his partner Dorothy Womersley, 71, of Grimsby, Lancs, were hit with anti-social behaviour orders after the pair abused the family next [...]

House building on the rise

03/12/2012 Landlord News lrs_keeper

According to figures published today there has been a rise in private sector housebuilding, in the 3 months to November. Glenigan’s construction index shows: a 50 % increase in new private house building work (compared with the same period last year), and an 11 % increase in social housing work. The rise in private housing [...]

Landlords cut empty homes by 7%

27/11/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

New figures reveal that nearly 20,000 empty homes were brought back into use in England over the last year. According to the charity Empty Homes there are now 259,842 long-term empty homes, which is 7% down on the same time last year. 19,069 long-term empty properties were brought back into use during the year to [...]

Do Landlords Really Know it All?

26/11/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

A recent study conducted by Landlord Referencing Services has revealed that one in four landlords believe that they ‘know it all’, regarding tenant referencing and deposit protection rules. The study of 250 landlords involved a quick telephone questionnaire, asking the following: Do you use Tenant Referencing? Result: 75% = YES | 25% = NO- Of [...]

Registering Applicant Tenants

23/11/2012 Landlord News newsatlandlordreferencing

Landlords and Letting Agents can upload applicant tenants onto the Landlord Referencing System, to further prevent Landlords from taking others bad tenants as well as further protecting their existing tenants from anti-social behaviour, drugs crime and theft. We thought we should bring it to the attention of the entire LRS community that you are all [...]