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A delay to tax reforms which would have seen sole traders and small businesses obliged to keep digital records and report income quarterly to HMRC has been welcomed by financial experts. The government had wanted to make the radical changes affecting 4.3m self-employed people, small businesses and landlords with an income of more than £10,000 come into effect from April 2023. Now it has been pushed back to April 2024. Officials said they recognised the pressure businesses were under as they emerged from t

Rendall & Rittner, a leading property managing agent, is proud to announce it has made the final shortlist for The Employee Engagement Award in The Investors in People Awards 2021. In a record-breaking year for entries, with nearly three hundred organisations involved, Rendall & Rittner is proud of this outstanding achievement amongst tough competition. The Investors in People Awards celebrate the very best organisations and individuals from around the world across various organisational, people, wellbein

Add Living the residential lettings and management company has recruited James Curry as Operations Support Co-ordinator, a residential property manager to its team. James has joined Add Living to manage a portfolio of 114 units, residential properties primarily in the Walthamstow area of East London, recently acquired by Addington Capital, the sister company of Add Living, together with one of its JV partners. James joins from Daniel Watney LLP where he was responsible for the property management of 72 bu

We would like to introduce our newest team member Jess Steen to Jackson Sims Recruitment. Jess has a background in both leasehold management and estate agency. Her knowledge combined with her entrepreneurial spirit has made her an excellent addition.   We are experiencing tremendous growth and we are looking to continue to hire consultants both this year and next. Feel free to contact us at any point if you would like to explore working with property's number one recruiter.

Landlords who fall foul of the First Tier Property Tribunal beware! You can end up with a hefty contribution to the other side’s costs. The most recent example cost the Landlord £30,000, on top of the humiliation of being depicted in the most condemnatory terms by the Tribunal. These recent cases, where costs have been awarded against a Landlord, show that proper management is not an option, compliance with the various acts of Parliament not a ‘pick and mix’ exercise, and do-it-yourself property managemen

Addington Capital, the property investment and asset management specialist has secured permitted development determination to change its fifth (and last) building at Headingley Park, Leeds from office to residential use. Stockdale House, Headingley Park, the 43,000 sq. ft office building has received permission under Class O and will be redeveloped to create a new residential building on ground to fifth floor for 70 units which will be targeted at the private rented sector. 62x I bed apartments and 8X 2 b

An experienced property manager who worked for bosses at Principle Estate Management earlier in her career has now been recruited by the company. Catherine Ghaffoori was first appointed by Principle’s managing director Brett Williams when he worked at what was then known as Curry & Partners back in 2004. Mrs Ghaffoori developed her career with what become CPBigwood and latterly SDL , working in property management and then business integration until 2016, before moving to Savills in Lichfield as a propert

Interphone, the security systems and building technology integrator, has teamed up with Amazon Key for Business to enable easier, more efficient Amazon deliveries to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in the UK. As an Amazon service provider, Interphone will install and maintain the Key for Business device free of charge to qualifying building owners and managers within the commercial residential marketplace.   Key for Business gives Amazon drivers the ability to enter buildings and deliver packages without assi

Issue 115 has now been published and is available for subscribers to read now.  This issues includes a special Insurance feature and includes some of the following articles:  Professional bodies reveal plans to merge Facilities and maintenance firm launches new division EV funding scheme extended to people living in apartments The ‘Golden Thread’... a residential gamechanger Helping RMCs to put their best foot forward Do you need a full fibre upgrade? Special Insurance Feature including: How to cho

Over the last 18 months, brands have felt the pressures of the pandemic to ensure customer safety, while providing a similar service virtually. Build-to-rent provider, Sigma Capital Group plc is no exception and has been working hard to offer innovative ways to keep its customers happy. Sigma’s rental brand, Simple Life, has introduced its own manufactured and managed ‘My Simple Life’ mobile app, available to residents across all of its developments in the UK. Within its first month, over 1,100 customers

Block living can throw up a plethora of nightmares, below are our tips for dealing with those horrors often found close to home. Noisy neighbours Noisy neighbours are an inevitability at some stage in life, but block living can often bring this to the fore front.  A nuisance can arise in many forms, but the most common one for leaseholders to contend with, quite unsurprisingly, is a noise nuisance. If a leaseholder is causing a nuisance on a consistent basis and all attempts to approach them in a neighbou

One of Birmingham’s most historic gun making industrial sites is set to have a new lease of life after a multi-million pound sale brokered by commercial property agents Siddall Jones. Birmingham developers Elevate Property Group has purchased the 0.79 acre site in Price Street for an undisclosed sum with the intention of redeveloping 51-61 Price street into 84 apartments. The property was on the market for £2.5 million. Ed Siddall-Jones, managing director of Siddall Jones, said: “The site includes the loc