A new online title launches today (Thursday) as a sister title to EAT.
Calling Letting Agent Today, it will come out every Tuesday and Thursday, and focus purely on the residential lettings market.
This means that EAT will now focus almost exclusively on the residential sales market – although obviously major lettings stories will still appear here, depending on when they break. EAT will, of course, continue to come out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
For keener members of the EAT community, it will mean that there is a daily ‘fix’ of property stories.
A dedicated letting agent site should also have the effect of tidying EAT up, as some of the advertising will now go on the new site, where it will be more at home.
Those used to the EAT formula will feel at home with Letting Agent Today. The format is the same – topical news stories spiked with the odd bit of irreverence, and readers’ comments happily invited and lightly moderated.
We also plan to build up the new site over time, with a legal section to keep readers regularly updated on the ever-changing requirements of the law in the private rented sector. We hope that this section will also become a useful training resource for firms.
If you have particular questions or issues you would like us to address in this new legal section, then please get in touch with the editor.
And yes, it’s the same editor as for EAT! The site goes properly live tomorrow for the first time but you can see it here:
https://www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk
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Comments
wow! I'm moving to LAT!
Well done!
I have been banging on for years that Lettings & Property Management is entirely separate to that of Property Sales (Pure Estate Agents) and requires entirely different qualifications, skills and experience The main (not the only) things required are a great understanding of the complex legalities and most of all is the hands-on continuing relationship with both landlord & tenant. Estate agents that, in recent years, JUST 'bolted on' lettings to their sales team using the same staff, with no special training etc., did the lettings industry no favours at all.
HD - haha! I'm with you :)
To be fair, some are nice enough to discuss with. It's the majority with no manners and no idea that are the problem.
Rantrave - I think that would attract the wrong kind of attention and bring too many of the Idiots from the HPC brigade over here. Theres already too many of them posting here
How about a new site where EAs post pictures of houses they are trying to sell and try to justify the valuations they have assigned them.
Might be controversial, but would certainly attract visitors and thus bring in ad revenue.
Can you work out how to keep all the idiots out that infest this site and try to be clever with little knowledge of the real world and continually bleat on about house prices agents blah blah, perhaps a minimum age of 10, or actually have paid any tax and contributed to society. Sorted.
Roz- Good luck with the site.