An Uncaring Tenancy - Is There Any Hope For Water Conservation-Leak Detection in Rental Properties?
I’m a property manager for a mom-and-pop company that owns several residential buildings in San Francisco. In April of 2007 one of our buildings, a twenty-one unit, early 20th century Victorian in the Lower Haight, saw its water usage more than double over a two-month span, going from approximately 70,000 gallons to 168,000 gallons of water consumption.

Low Letting Fees - Too Good to Be True
With the huge slow down in house sales the property market is seeing an increase in demand for rental property. What will happen to agents charges?

Fire Safety For Residential Landlords to Protect Tenants
Following the jailing of a landlord because of fire safety breaches, landlords should ensure that they are fully aware of their responsibilities on fire safety to their tenants. A landlord has been sent to prison in the first custodial sentence to be given in London under new fire safety regulations.

This Mediterranean Complex Has a New Wooden Foot Bridge
Once upon a time Port Vell Barcelona was left to deteriorate for several the generations. The port’s warehouses became empty, its railroad tracks became rusted, and weather beaten, its industrial structures became quiet.