Living Property joins Zoopla network

Living Property, specialists in property rental and management based at Beccles within Suffolk’s Waveney Valley have joined the Zoopla property portal network and in so doing will see all of its clients rental instructions published across Archant, the UK largest independent regional publishers homes24.co.uk property portal as well as the properties being searchable via Yahoo UK & Ireland, Sky.com, UpMyStreet, AOL and MSN.

Paula Cunningham, Director comments, “In joining the UK’s number two property website the Zoopla network membership compliments our existing portal membership of rightmove, the UK leading portal. Our deliberate on-line strategy is to invest in the marketing and promotion of our landlord’s properties to minimise void periods thus ensuring properties are tenanted as quickly as possible”.

Kim Davies, fellow Director of Living Property added, “with 87% of all property search now undertaken on-line, in recognition that around 1 in 3 UK adults between the ages of 24 and 45 now own a smart phone and the fact that 47% of Zoopla network audience is unique we felt that the time was right to expand our on-line marketing strategy which now also includes our livingproperty.net website being mobile search enabled”.

If you have any questions about property rental email info@livingproperty.co or phone 0845 459 4095

UK ends love affair with home ownership?

Latest figures from Communities and Local Government (CLG) have revealed owner occupation of residential property is now at its lowest for 11 years, with one in every six homes in England now a private rental property,

The metrics show that 17.4% of UK housing is now within the private rented sector, an increase from 16.4% in 2009 and up 229,000 by number.

Since 2000, the number of properties in the private rented sector, which currently stands at 3.9 million, has risen by 1.8 million, reflecting the shift in housing tenure England. The growth trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future due to mortgage lenders continued risk adverse attitude to lending to would be buyers.

The number of properties in the owner-occupied sector fell from 14.9 million in 2009 to 14.8 million last year – the lowest since 2000.

The jury is out on whether this is a permanent shift, for certain private rental is no longer stigmatised as the less well offs way to habitation, coupled with other factors such as a significant improvement of the quality and variety of rental homes available for renters it highly likely that we are indeed seeing a long term shift.

If your struggling to sell you home and want advice, without obligation, about renting call Living Property Lettings & Management on 0845 459 4095

All in the course of a days work!

After seeing all the troubles in London and around the UK in the last few days there was not a hoody in sight today as I ventured out with my little Smart car onto the Reedham ferry in Norfolk. Viewing the Norfolk Broads scenery and witnessing the smiles on the faces of holiday’s makers it appears Britain is perhaps not as ‘broken’ as some would have us believe. Letting and property management is hard work and to make a success of it, like anything, you have to put in the hard yards but there are times like today when it brings along a little unplanned adventure which makes everything worth while! p.s. I now have a beautiful mansion for rent at £2,100 per month, fantastic location with views to die for, interested please email me paula@livingproperty.co