The Agent Blog - Goodlord (37)

Aug 2, 2023

Business

Recruitment & retention

How to make your agency's salaries more competitive

Sally Lawson, CEO and Founder of Agent Rainmaker, shares her thoughts on how to bolster your team's salaries while maintaining your profit margins.

Aug 1, 2023

Data

Rental Index

Voids

Rents

Affordability

Cost of rent reaches record-breaking high in July - topping £1,300 for first time

Goodlord's July Rental Index breaks figures - with rents at their highest and voids at their lowest since our records began.

Jul 31, 2023

Business

Recruitment & retention

7 ways to motivate and retain your lettings team

Staff turnover can be a challenge in lettings, especially when it comes to negotiators - so here are some top tips on retaining them.

Jul 26, 2023

Goodlord Group

70% of agents believe landlords pressures will increase through 2023

70% of agents polled by Goodlord believe the pressures landlords face will continue to grow in 2023.

Jul 26, 2023

Tenants

Stock

Legislation

Renters reform: Is now the right time?

Is now the right time to introduce rental reform or does it simply bring tenants more risk? Adrian Gill, Non-Exec Board Member at Reapit, shares his thoughts.

Jul 25, 2023

Landlords

Referencing

Pre-qualification

4 ways to help your landlords manage risk in tenant referencing

Here are four points in the referencing process where agents can help make decisions to carefully manage risk for your landlords.

Jul 24, 2023

Business

Stock

Will the new planning system proposals help the housing shortage crisis?

The government has announced new planning rules to help it meet its advisory housebuilding targets, in its overarching long-term plan for housing.

Jul 24, 2023

Affordability

Landlords

Tenants

Guarantors

5 top tips to prepare your landlords for new legislation

Experts discuss the many opportunities for letting agents to benefit from the Renters (Reform) Bill.

Jul 23, 2023

Compliance

Energy efficiency

EPC ratings

Energy efficiency standards

Legislation

Plans to increase Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards to be scrapped

Rishi Sunak appears to have confirmed that the government will scrap its plans to increase Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for private rented properties.