Posted on Thursday, 5 March, 2020
Since the tenant fee ban last year, where tenants no longer pay for referencing fees, there was much debate around how these checks were going to be carried out or how agents were going to keep the levels of service as they were. As an agent, it is always our aim to give the landlord the...
Posted on Friday, 15 November, 2019
CGT Lettings & Sales are delighted to have taken on a fleet of fully electric company cars in a bid to reduce air pollution in Gloucestershire. The company manages and sells property in all corners of the county, racking up the associated mileage whilst doing so. Taking the step to give...
Posted on Monday, 5 August, 2019
Imagine the situation, your home has been in the family for decades, its literally part of your history and has been handed down through generations. However, it’s now empty, you’ve got somewhere else to live, you don’t need to sell your family home and so you’re in a...
Posted on Monday, 15 July, 2019
A colleague of mine recently told me about a landlord that he spotted advertising a property on Gumtree, he recognised the property as he’d been out to value it for sale only 6 months previously and he provided the landlord with advise on the kind of rental yield he could expect if he let...
Posted on Monday, 17 June, 2019
With Rightmove and Zoopla recently announcing an end to ‘No DSS’ listings on their portals, and a recent meeting held by Heather Wheeler, Housing Minister at Downing Street along with several representatives from leading property portals and industry bodies to discuss the ending of...
Posted on Monday, 20 May, 2019
I’d like to tell you a little story of woe. As happens quite regularly with CGT, a landlord recently expressed intent to leave their current corporate letting agent who wasn’t performing up to scratch and move the management of their property over to us mid tenancy....
Posted on Monday, 15 April, 2019
Today, following whispers for months, the government has announced plans to get rid of Section 21s and supposed ‘no fault evictions’ in a bid to provide more security to the 11 million private renters that we now have in England. The Government is selling this announcement as part of...
Posted on Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
We are pleased to announce that CGT Lettings & Sales have acquired Location Estate Agents of Stonehouse, Stroud. The take-over was completed in early March 2019 and the property portfolio of Location now sits with CGT Lettings & Sales with immediate effect. We are...
Posted on Monday, 18 March, 2019
Landlords, looking for the perfect tenants? Want someone to live in and look after your property for the long-term, and have no rental arrears? Well unfortunately there’s no magic answer, but there are some steps you can take as a landlord to protect yourself and to ensure you have more...
Posted on Monday, 4 February, 2019
Ok landlords, I bet you're wondering what these 'no deposit' options are that some letting agents keep going on about? You're probably a little bit sceptical and wondering how something can beat that classic lump of money normally protected in a deposit scheme? Well, many...
