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Don’t forget the Easter holidays will end soon and the students will be back so if you are a landlord with houses to let still you won’t be alone.. with COVID and students missing the first two terms, this summer term will be busier than usual for lettings.  Get your houses advertised now so that when the students are back they are ready to go. House4students is the perfect place for...

If you are person who took the room at the back of the house, furthest away from the Wi-Fi router you will probably be familiar with getting no or patchy Wi-Fi. This is of course very frustrating and can really hamper your studying not to mention entertainment. There are solutions of course, we will go through the 3 most common solutions. 1. Wi-Fi extenders – these pick up the current Wi-Fi...

It’s in these cold and damp months when the windows are closed that mould and condensation can really strike...sometimes it can be because of a leak in the roof or a pipe but far more often is due to the air in the house being very humid. Think about it, a busy house full of people all having showers and then drying their towel on radiators plus doing their washing fills the air with water. This water...

With the stamp duty holiday extended until the 30th June, now is a good time to consider buying investment property. As governments around the World including in the UK have borrowed so freely and excessively through the last year, often in excess of GDP there is likely to be a tied wave of inflation coming and real estate is a good hedge against this over the longer term. With the stamp duty holiday...

With alleged deaths from covid dropping and reported cases falling too, there is an expectation that Boris will lay out steps to reduce restrictions perhaps as early as early March.  Given that the risk for those their 20s is almost non-existent (of course any flu or pneumonia are not without their risk) students should be allowed to return to normal immediately.  In fact, many would argue that they...

It seems quite a lot students have elected to stay at home until the end of the 'lockdown'.  What with classes online and little happening it makes sense, but it does mean they are thousands paying for something they are not using – this is not a good situation for anyone and should worry students and landlords alike. Some commercially and university owned halls of residence have offered rebates and to...

Our new website is almost completed and soon be ready to receive new listings and this is where we can help. If you are landlord or agent, we can arrange photographs, floorplans and virtual tours while if you are landlord, we can manage everything in terms of finding tenants as well as on going management. We are particularly excited about the collaboration with Tube-Media to provide virtual tours of...