What Sellers Must Disclose Before A Home Is Listed
9 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 7th Sep 2026 The awkward questions shouldn't wait until you've found a buyer Most sellers expect the really detailed questions to come later. Put the house on the market. Find a buyer. Accept an offer. Then wait for the solicitors to start...
Landlords: EPC C By 2030 Is Now Confirmed
6 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 9th Sep 2026 If you have been half following the EPC story for the last few years, you would be forgiven for thinking nobody knows what is happening. A standard was proposed, then delayed, then dropped, then revived. Dates came and went. 2025,...
Landlords: The New National Register Starts In December
8 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 10th Sep 2026 Landlords in England now have a date, and a price. The government has confirmed that the new national register of landlords and rented homes opens on 15 December 2026, and rolls out region by region through the following year....
Why I Think You Should List Your Million-Pound Home for 99p
3 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 10th Sep 2026 Obviously, I don’t. But stay with me. Imagine you put your car on AutoTrader. Great photographs. Lovely description. Advertised everywhere buyers are looking. Three weeks later, nobody has called. What would you think? You...
Explore Your Local Area’s Hidden History This September
6 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 11th Sep 2026 There is a building you drive past every week and have never been inside. A chapel, a mill, an old town hall, a house behind a wall that you have always been mildly curious about. For ten days in September, a remarkable number of...
Selling? Expect The Letters, Calls And Door Knocks
7 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 14th Sep 2026 Your home goes live on a Thursday afternoon. By the following Tuesday, there are three letters on the mat, two of them handwritten, and somebody has knocked on the door to say they were just valuing a property round the corner. If...
Rent Increases: The Only Legal Route For Landlords
6 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 16th Sep 2026 Raising the rent used to be one of those things that often happened by agreement. A conversation, a text, a new figure on the standing order from next month. Since 1 May 2026, that informality is a problem. There is now one route,...
Buyers And Renters: Check The Street, Not The Photos
7 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 18th Sep 2026 People agonise over the house and take the street on trust. It is understandable. The house is what you look at, photograph, measure and lie awake thinking about. The street is just the thing around it, and it usually gets about...
Bank Rate Held: What It Means for Your Mortgage Now
9 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 19th Sep 2026 No change. Again. On Thursday 17 September 2026 the Bank of England held Bank Rate at 3.75%. If you have been waiting for a clear signal before making a move, that can feel like another month of nothing happening. It is not quite...
Property Or Pension? What Owners Should Weigh Up
8 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 21st Sep 2026 It is UK Savings Week, which makes this a reasonable moment to talk about the conversation we have more than almost any other. Somebody has a bit of money, or is about to. They are weighing up putting it into a pension or buying a...
