Rachel North

Private Rented Sector, Rent Increases, and the Renters Reform Bill

In this blog we put the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee’s report released on the 9th February 2023 under the spotlight, considering the current Governments’ proposals to overhaul in-tenancy rent increases in England’s private rented sector. The Government’s ‘A fairer private rented sector’ white paper and the committees report both use the Department for […]

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A Q&A interview with our Lettings Manager, Rachel Norris

Rachel joined the Alexandre Boyes team in 2015 becoming Lettings Manager in 2018. Rachel has extensive local knowledge having grown up in the area, ten years lettings experience . Rachel oversees all aspects of lettings including valuations, tenancy progression and renewals. Here she talks about careers, the industry, favourite properties, and the perils of the

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Open Banking…how is this used by Alexandre Boyes block & estate management?

Open banking is a developing trend using “financial technology” (fintech) companies to compete with traditional financial ways to deliver financial services. Why does Open Banking exist? In 2016, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report on the UK’s retail banking market concluding older, larger banks need do little to gain new business, whilst newer banks struggled

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Continual Professional Development – What’s it all about?

Here at Alexandre Boyes we promote training for the whole team and professional membership. As a regulated firm we are required to keep training records for all staff members, and those that are professional members with bodies such as Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS),  ARLA PropertyMark (ARLA) and the Institute of Residential Property Management

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2022 Christmas opening hours

The Alexandre Boyes offices will be operating different Christmas opening hours over the festive holidays but are still on hand to offer out of hours assistance for Fully Managed Lettings Tenants and Block Residents. Below are our 2022 Christmas opening hours Alexandre Boyes offer our fully managed letting, estate & block management residents SOS out of

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Property News

Here are a few key bits of property news from October 2022: – Housing Secretary announcement… Michael Gove has resumed his role as the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary on the 25th October following Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle. PropertyMark’s head of policy and campaigns, Timothy Douglas, said: “The Levelling Up agenda and reforms to

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