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We wish all our clients and contacts a very pleasant Easter weekend.
Easter is symbolic of new beginnings which feels appropriate after the last two years and with Spring in full bloom.
Enjoy the holiday break and we look forward to hearing from you if you would like to discuss your property requirements.
Very best wishes from John and the Prime Portfolio team

The Dogs and Domestic Animals (Accommodation and Protection) Bill has made little progress since our last blog on this subject in February 2021.
The Bill is designed to help responsible pet owners find suitable rental properties. It will allow pets to be kept in rental accommodation although its primary focus is the protection and welfare of domestic animals.
The Bill is still awaiting its second reading in the House of Commons and so is not likely to become law for some time yet.
If it does go ahead, it won’t give tenants an unconditional right to keep a pet.
Tenants cannot have...

Property transactions are often targeted by criminals with the aim of tricking you into transferring money to them instead of to your solicitor or agent. This is known as Payment Diversion Fraud (or Business Email Compromise) and affects businesses and customers where electronic financial transactions are taking place.
Criminals will contact you by email claiming to be from your solicitor or agent and will request a payment to be made or inform you of a change to their bank account details. They will often create fake email addresses which are very similar to genuine addresses and might even...

Landlords must carry out checks on all prospective tenants, whether British or overseas citizens, to ensure that the relevant individuals have lawful status in the UK before they rent their property to them.
Right to rent checks can be done by a manual document check or an online check. Which is used depends on how the individual has been granted their immigration status.
British citizens can be verified by a manual check of their original passport in their presence.
An online check can be made using the Home Office’s online checking service to view the immigration status of existing...