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Tuesday, April 4

Loans, Building Societies and Valuation Panels

by bewarethesharks on Tue 04 Apr 2006 16:45 BST

Nationwide, the country's largest building society, has dropped Dunlop Haywards, the property agents, from its valuation panel in the latest repercussion of a suspected £10m fraud at the Cheshire Building Society.

The move came after the Serious Fraud Office said it was looking into a loan by Cheshire in which ...   more »

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Monday, April 3

Warning: you can't evict defaulting tenants for several years - Bulgaria

by bewarethesharks on Mon 03 Apr 2006 11:13 BST

A warning about tenant law from Strahil Ivanov, head of the Yavlena real estate agency.

Bulgaria’s property market was virtually unregulated, he said, which was “bad and good”. It was good because it enabled the market to develop rapidly, but bad because it meant that there was very little ...   more »

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Thursday, March 30

Spanish property market corruption - Marbella

by bewarethesharks on Thu 30 Mar 2006 15:53 BST

A report in the UK Financial Times highlights an issue which affects property investment markets around the world - corruption. This was reported today:

"Marisol Yagüe, the mayor of Marbella, and 18 other advisers, lawyers and town councillors were arrested yesterday in connection with alleged corruption and profiteering from ...   more »
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Tuesday, March 21

Unscrupulous estate agents - BBC Whistleblower

by bewarethesharks on Tue 21 Mar 2006 19:10 GMT

Unscrupulous practices by estate agents, including misleading surveyors about property prices and faking signatures, have been uncovered.

Agents put forward false offers to vendors and took backhanders, reporters for BBC One's Whistleblower found.

For four months they worked undercover in agencies in the London area. The firms involved are investigating ...   more »

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Monday, March 13

Property Investment Courses - April 8 and 9 2006 - London

by bewarethesharks on Mon 13 Mar 2006 12:47 GMT

The next Bewarethesharks.com property investment courses will take place in London over the weekend of 8/9 April 2006.

For further details telephone 0151 482 5525 or visit the property investment courses website at: www.bewarethesharks.com

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Tuesday, March 7

UK Housing Act 2004 - Houses in Multiple Occupation Licences

by bewarethesharks on Tue 07 Mar 2006 21:13 GMT

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) licences will be needed for all properties of three storeys or more, and for all properties with five or more people forming at least two households.

The new law, which comes into effect 6 April 2006, gives three definitions of a multi-occupied property:

One which is ...   more »

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Saturday, March 4

UK Home Information Packs (HIPs) - June 2007 - What's the cost?

by bewarethesharks on Sat 04 Mar 2006 12:38 GMT

Many first time buyers will still have to pay for a full property valuation, despite government moves to ease their burden by introducing Home Information Packs (HIPs).

From June 2007, anyone selling their home has to compile a HIP, costing around £700, that includes local authority searches, work guarantees ...   more »

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