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It’s back!  St Basils Homelessness Charity have once again chosen Brueton Park, Solihull as the venue for their fun filled Doggy event. The ‘Woof Run’ is an entertaining obstacle course for our furry four legged friends, big and small, young and old. It’s a family friendly event, everyone is welcome, and your pooch will get a medal, along with a finish line picture as a souvenir of your fun day.  This year’s event will be held on Sunday 12th March, with money raised from dogs getting sponsored to do the e

A major resurfacing project has been successfully completed around an apartment block in Solihull looked after by Principle Estate Management. The works saw more than 55 tons of tarmac laid on the car park, drives and road at Barley Green, a block of more than 70 apartments off the Milcote Road, near the town centre. Matthew Harris, a senior property manager at Principle, explained that the project had been agreed because surfaces had not been replaced since the apartments were first built in the 1960s. M

Rapleys has today announced that it has welcomed s106 Affordable Housing (S106 AH) into its business in its third corporate expansion in just six months. Rapleys has been on a strategic growth drive having added property consultancy firm Aston Rose in December and planning practice CSJ in October. Rapleys also rebranded and repositioned the business in November with residential one of four core divisions. S106 AH will become part of the development consulting team, further strengthening the partnership’s

The Proper Awards is back again for their third year and they want you, yes YOU, to enter!  The Proper Awards is an annual awards ceremony honouring the property industry’s top suppliers. Judged entirely by customer reviews, rewarding the highest-scoring applicants with a Proper night out, a Proper celebration and a Proper Award! The Proper Awards is the only property awards dedicated to suppliers – the categories include: Brokerage, Construction, Consultancy, Financial, Human Resources, Interior Design &

Camilla Waszek, Senior Associate at specialist property solicitors JB Leitch, provides some key considerations regarding the Building Safety Act and service charge recovery… A clear function of the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA”), and in particular Schedule 8, is to seek to limit the costs payable by leaseholders, and particularly qualifying leaseholders, in respect of contributing towards the cost of works to remedy “relevant defects”. There are many issues that require clarification by way of further R

BarNET ZERO, the new borough-wide campaign to help Barnet become one of London’s most sustainable boroughs is launching on 16 Jan. The campaign has been designed to bring residents, communities, and businesses on the borough’s journey to Net Zero, through advice, information and support. The initial five-week campaign will look at each of these areas, showcasing some of the work already taking place across the borough, and how individuals can take small (or large) steps to become more sustainable. Launchi

IRPM are excited to be back at the QEII Centre, London for the IRPM Annual Seminar on the 11th of May 2023. Like all of the past IRPM Seminars, our 2023 seminar will be touching on the most pressing issues facing our sector and professionals. We'll have industry experts giving you the most up-to-date information and guidance throughout the day.   IRPM and ARMA Members can take advantage of our exclusive Member rate and book their place for only £139! Topics we will be delving into: Building Safety Ment

We are pleased to announce that our own COO Helen Macrae has been selected to sit on the PRS ‘Member Panel’ as the residential leasehold management representative. The PRS confirmed “We were very pleased that so many strong candidates showed interest in assisting us in our aims with the Panel. As we had so many applications we had to have two rounds of committee meetings to look at everyone’s submissions and this delayed us slightly in finalising the representatives. I am delighted to say that we would li

Arloid Automation of London is launching a new partnership programme to enable property professionals and specifiers to access AI technology to reduce their customers’ energy use in the properties they manage in a move towards sustainability, net-zero carbon and savings on utility bills. This is also increasingly important with a lack of certainty as to energy supply provision towards the end of 2023. Property professionals and specifiers are invited to join the partnership programme to offer their custom

OneDome the technology company behind the World’s first eHomebuying platform closed its first acquisition of a mortgage brokerage firm, acquiring CMME Mortgage and Protection Limited from CMME Group, owned by a private equity firm Livingbridge, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is subject to receiving change in control approval from the FCA.  CMME Mortgage and Protection Limited is a well-established mortgage brokerage and financial services provider in the UK. It arranges around £800M worth of mortgage

Property insurance experts, Lansdown Insurance Brokers have today launched an online survey that sets to seek-out how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting landlords and their future plans. Lansdown are keen to uncover the real issues affecting landlords, at this time of rising costs and market uncertainty, through this short survey. Each landlord that completes the five-minute survey will be entered into a free prize draw for a John Lewis voucher worth £100. Please find the Lansdown Insurance Brokers -

Award-winning housebuilder, The Hill Group, has appointed Victoria Anthony as HR Director, to further strengthen the company’s Human Resourcing strategy. The appointment comes at a crucial period of growth for the business as it works towards increasing its turnover to £1.2 billion by 2025.  As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Institute of Recruitment Professionals, Victoria has extensive sector experience gained at Land Securities, and latterly Galliard Homes wher