Manchester Property News

Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

As part of our ongoing commitment to help improve our local community, Luke and I have recently visited Burnage Media Arts College where head teacher Ian Fenn donated blankets and sleeping bags to a charity we have been ...

Donna Weetman, Maintenance and Development Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

We're coming to the end of our current extension project in Heaton Moor.

The project commenced in February and will consist of a double storey side extension that has been built to create a new bedroom with ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

PAD4U have recently been awared the Investors in People Award!

PAD4U commited to Investors in People two years ago and we are very proud to recevice this acolade after the hard work everyone has put into this ...

 David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

As discussed in previous newsletters PAD4U will shortly be switching to electronic Statements and Newsletters.  In this article I will answer the common questions we receive regarding the switchover.

 Why switch to electronic Statements ...

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In this week's Budget, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that stamp duty of 1% on properties worth between £125,000 and £250,000 would be removed for the next two years for first-time buyers.  But is this enough to revitalise the property market?

Probably not.  It will encourage ...

The Government plans to require HMO accomodation to have planning permission after April 6, 2010.

If you are planning to convert an existing property to HMO then you will have to pay £335.00 and wait eight weeks (at a minimum) to receive planning permission before ...

Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Please only call 999 if you have a real life emergency, if yours or someone else's life is in immediate danger!

Recently 999 Crews have reported that they are struggling to attend to critically ill patients ...

 Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

I am coming across miscommunications between landlords own contractors and tenants on a regular basis and this is leading to frustration on all parities especially the tenants,

The procedure that we try to adhere for landlords ...

Donna Weetman, Maintenance and Development Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Peter Anthony Developments are currently converting a shop into two modern flats on Levenshulme Road, Gorton, Manchester.  These types on conversions are becoming popular as it is often the case that residential properties can be more ...

Donna Weetman, Maintenance and Development Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

New Extension in Heaton Moor

After completing a double storey extension in Congleton at the start of the new year, Peter Anthony Developments have started another double storey extension at Deniston Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport to ...

Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

We are finding that tenants are contacting us more frequently to make rental  payments by debit card over the telephone.  I must make you aware that rent  payments must be paid by standing order as per ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Google StreetView has substantialy increased it's UK Coverage.  Pretty much every UK location has now been photographed and can be viewed via Google StreetView.  PAD4U.com has supported StreetView for sometime.  If you would like to try ...

Paul Robertson, Business Development Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Perhaps I set the bar too high?  We only received one correct response, so congratulations to Steve Hall your IPOD is on it way!

I will run a few more competitions later in the year, but remember ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Double Dip is an unpleasant term that is doing the rounds at the moment and we're not talking about Nachos.  The term has been whispered around the City for sometime, but it's now turning into a ...

Alaine Bradbury, Estates Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

All Estate & Letting Agents in Hastings have been banned from having sea front boards by Hastings council, but locals on the whole support agents views.

Today on Radio Sussex's Breakfast show presenter Neil Pringle highlighted ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Jim Moore, who could never be described as having a lack of confidence, has setup a new vehicle for  his property investment club called IAP Global.  Mr Moore's preceding companies Inside Track and Instant Access Properties(IAP) collapsed into administration ...

We recently did a promotion to attract tenants to move into any of our empty properties before Christmas by offering them a free Ipod shuffle. There is still a few Ipods remaining and we are offering these to our landlords if they take part in ...

David Boyd, Managing Director, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

The TDS (Tenancy Deposit Scheme) is one of three Government schemes introduced in 2007 to regulate how deposits are collected, processed and to resolve deposit disputes.  Since inception the schemes have proved controversial.  Although supposedly the ...

Donna Weetman, Maintenance and Development Manager, PAD4U Letting Agents Manchester writes:

Referring back to our newsletter in December 2009, the double storey rear extension we were working on in Congleton, Cheshire has now been completed.

The extension created two additional bedrooms and another sitting room transforming ...