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• Insurance companies pledge to pay out for UK riot damage
  

  Published 09th Aug 2011

  Insurers have said they will pay out to customers who have had possessions damaged and stolen in the riots in London and across the rest of the country

• New letting agents code for UK
  

  Published 04th Aug 2011

  A new code for letting agents in the UK has completed the first stage of the Office of Fair Trading’s Consumer Codes Approval Scheme, it has been announced

• UK student accommodation investment expected to stay strong
  

  Published 04th Aug 2011

  Property investors have committed nearly £348 million to the student accommodation sector in the UK since the beginning of 2011, new research from CB Richard Ellis has revealed

• Guard against builder disputes, warns Which?
  

  Published 04th Aug 2011

  Householders should always have a written agreement in place with a builder or decorator in case a dispute breaks out, consumer rights organisation Which

• Is the failed buy-to-let 'guru' Jim Moore back in business?
  

  Published 01st Aug 2011

  Property ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes – where potential landlords are encouraged to buy flats and ‘put no money down’ – are back, with at least two companies encouraging investors to enter into risky and potentially illegal transactions

• Solar plants soar ahead of government tariff cuts
  

  Published 28th Jul 2011

  British solar power capacity rose by more than 50 percent in the three months to June as developers scrambled to finish projects before lower government support tariffs kick in next month, energy ministry data showed on Thursday

• Crackdown on holiday home loans as dreams are dashed by bureaucrats
  

  Published 27th Jul 2011

  Hundreds of Britons have had their hopes of buying a dream holiday home in France, Spain or Italy dashed ahead of tough new rules from banking bureaucrats