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Property Searching Top 5 Tips Searching for a property is at your fingertips now-a-days, making any property search more efficient wherever you are looking for a property to rent. Letting Cloud provides a web based and mobile responsive website with the latest features to help save time when searching for that perfect property to rent. 1. Use Google Maps/Street View Check out the neighbourhood...

Pet Friendly Property Demands On The Rise While rental demand has seen a rise of 18% over the past eighteen months, we have also seen a large demand for pet-friendly rental properties has more than doubled, enquiries to UK letting agents for pet-friendly rentals up 110%. Over half of UK adults are now thought to own a pet, the majority dog (26%) or cat (24%) owners (PDSA.org.uk). Our research has...

Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence - Property Letting Portal of the Year 2021 – UK In January 2021 Letting had received notification that a submission from an external Government body had recommended Letting Cloud on merit of innovation and Excellence in the property portal industry. We were delighted as a team to receive this news and we accepted the award and virtually celebrated as a...

The latest government restrictions for you and rental property When you can leave home (UK Government) You must not leave or be outside of your home except where you have a ‘reasonable excuse’. This will be put in law. The police can take action against you if you leave home without a ‘reasonable excuse’, and issue you with a fine (Fixed Penalty Notice). Moving home You can still move...

We would like to say a few festive words from the Letting Cloud Team to all our agents, landlords and tenants. Follow us on Socials:...

Landlords and Agents The Risk Of Virtual Viewings Landlords and Letting Agents have all agreed that face to face viewings are still a high risk of spreading the infection unwarily. Some landlords and agents have gone as far as they will not conduct viewings during the Covid lockdown at rental properties. As a UK property portal we here mixed news from landlords and agents nationwide. The messages...

Pet Friendly Portal Working from home has seen a rise in more tenants looking to have a pet. As the first portal to introduce a pet friendly section on our platform, we have seen a rise in landlords accepting more tenants with pets having piloted 18 properties where landlords have allowed pets and each property was let within around of 3 days of advertising with Letting Cloud. We get around 15...

Shift from short term to long term lets Pre corona-virus short term let landlords were contemplating the switch to long term rentals. The rise in sites such as Airbnb, Booking.com and Home & Away has made holiday lets a number one choice than hotels. It has also seen the rise in house parties, stag / hen parties staying and group bookings where it should only be a set number of guests. It has also...

The Rental Market is Steady Market Rental Figures Rents have dropped in the past four months to September, the average rent for a two bedroom property decreased from £777 to £767, a one percent fall. The average in Scotland to rent a two bedroom property per month: Edinburgh averaging £1,100 – one per cent dipGlasgow averaging £800 – steadyAberdeen averaging £700 - steadyDundee...

Tenants get the support needed. With the global pandemic still here and everyday life a little strange, some tenants have found themselves in a struggle or a deeper struggle with financial difficulty. This effects the rental process as tenants cannot afford to pay the rent, benefits have been cut, personal debt rises and utility bills rise as we all were in lockdown. During lockdown our CEO Grant...