Cannabis Investments

January

Sales within the property market were down creating difficult conditions for homeowners. A significant increase in “reluctant landlords” was noted with many taking the decision to rent out their properties until the market improved. These inexperienced landlords had little knowledge of the rules and regulations to be adhered to when renting a property causing subsequent problems for tenants and giving the landlord profession a bad reputation.

February

The recession continued to cause problems for landlords with many tenants falling behind on their rent payments. The NLA revealed 74% of calls to the NLA advice line were from landlords concerned about rental arrears.

March

Tenants renting properties in order to set up cannabis factories were all over the news with stories of walls being knocked down, to fires from faulty electrics. The police urged landlords to look out for signs of a cannabis factory which included blacked out windows, pungent smells and heat emitting from the property.

April

Local Housing Allowance, where claimants were paid housing benefits directly instead of the money going straight to their landlords, had been in force for a year. The system was proving unpopular with many tenants preferring the old system and falling into rental arrears under new legislation.

May

National Landlord Registration Scheme was announced by the Government in response to the “Rugg Review” where landlords are required to submit details of their property holdings at the time of registration and re-registration each year. This was not well received and a similar scheme set up in Scotland resulted in failure.

June

A boost of confidence in the buy-to-let market was reported when the Letting Agents Association carried out a survey which found that an increasing number of landlords had taken the opportunity, with falling house prices and low interest rates, to further invest in the buy-to-let market and boost their property portfolios.

The lending rates had remained at an all time historic low with the Bank of England holding the base rate at 0.5% since March 2009 and the trend of falling house prices had said to reach the bottom in the UK – this acted as a huge motivation for landlords to expand their portfolios under the current economic climate.

July

The Land Registry, a governmental body which aims to find out who owns land, decided to increase the land registration fees for the first time since 1993. It was claimed that the increase was due to the downturn in the property market.

August

John Denham MP proposed plans to stop the “studentification” of areas by restricting houses of multiple occupation. However these plans would raise rents by driving out students, young professionals and migrant workers who rent the properties as they are affordable.

September

A decline in the number of “Reluctant Landlords” was reported as the housing market started to pick up and house prices increased.

October

Research demonstrated that one in five households had suffered problems with badly behaved neighbours this year. The issue of anti-social behaviour has concerned the Government in recent years. An incident of a single mother who committed suicide with her disabled daughter in 2007 due to the stress and anxiety brought on by constant attacks carried out by groups of gangs highlighted the seriousness of this problem. She had complained to the authority more than 33 times over a 10 year period regarding the ongoing anti-social behaviour targeting her and her family members – yet not a single individual had been arrested.

November

Thousands of students received late payment of their student loans and could not pay their tuition fees or their rent on time. Landlords suffered an increase in rental arrears during this period.

December

The Government announced that it would review the Local Housing Allowance, pleasing local housing charities.

The Government also launched a national crackdown on social housing tenancy cheats with the aim to recover up to 10,000 council and housing associations homes which have been sublet illegally.

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The arrival of winter, making a single cold as the main product of the down jacket full debut. How to grasp the trend of trends, fashion leader, choose the one that is both warm and personality down jacket, has also become fashionable over the winter people are racking their brains to do a top priority. Are you still in the cold of winter on how to create eye-catching fashion personality and charm and confusion, it is still as to where to be able to buy into the Colorful eye-catching, beautiful clothing and racking their brains to do?

14, by the China Garment Association Professional Committee of down clothing and related products, the Changchun Municipal Bureau of Commerce organized, Changchun International Trade Center, Jiangsu Bosideng Group, a continuous host of “Fourth Down Garment Expo in Changchun, China” will soon grand curtain in the World Trade Center . Hundreds of million gift vigorous investment in the collective appearance hundred down jacket manufacturers, and tens of millions yuan of profit concession, in the Spring City citizens to bring a value for the shopping event also will provide you the most IN Jiemi season down jacket trends.

ITC

Create “Spring City down first”

As a well-known commercial enterprises in Changchun, in recent years, ITC adhere to the path of modern fashion department store, the customer’s satisfaction as the pursuit of business, and constantly create a pleasant surprise for the majority of consumers. Down in the keen insight into trends in market development and huge business opportunity, take the lead in the establishment of a professional Changchun store down jackets. Its focus to concentrate on the business model down jacket, down jacket is gradually leading the trends. Down the selection of the brand into the store, master the production process down jacket, down jacket to build confidence shops across the country hundreds of vendors in the selection of the Bosideng down jacket, snow flying, Compro, Bingjie, Hui Yuan, Yaya, Song Jay-Z, snow-lun, cards Zhu rice, duck baby, Heng Yuan Xiang, Pierre Cardin, Jinyu Jie, the feather, A Xue, seven sheep, ace, Kaimu lions, Snoopy, Trumpler, Beiji Rong , Geo, deep pride, SHAN Lan, Chun-lin, Tambor, ice flying, Jack Daniel’s, Playboy, Munsell Nearly a hundred and so on down jacket brand, to become famous as the main channel down jacket brand, create a ” Down Spring City’s first “brand.

Traders have been selling down coats and the vast majority of consumers to respond to the recognition down jacket manufacturers, but also got the Chinese down garments and related products Garment Association Professional Committee of attention. After careful observation and assessment, the ITC has been designated as the China Association of Changchun down the only co-mall.

Four feather Fair

Achievements down garments stronghold

ITC has always been standing in the forefront of fashion trends down jacket, successfully won the “China Changchun Down Garment Fair words” representation, there are only six cities in honor of this year has been four consecutive contractors. Fair through the organization of feather, so that across the country thousands of famous brand down jacket down jacket has been focused on the new show, conference, fashion trends, brand CEOs staged colorful high-end forum activities, integrating manufacturers, merchants of all the resources for consumers to build down feast.

Feathers during the fair, the province’s lowest price, variety of the most full, feedback intensity of the largest and widest impact. Has set a national single-store sales of single-day record of 2.8 million yuan. In order for students to spend the long warm winter’s day, Fair is held each feather “Care for poor students love donation” public welfare activities, has accumulated thousands of pieces of donated Down, student voucher donated five million yuan, has been in the long university wide acclaim.

ITC-of-season sales of down jackets to create a precedent for building into a city of four seasons does not fall down. From June to the annual World Trade Center will be carried out in October-season down jacket sale, the brand Old Style down jacket special sales, the minimum as low as 1 fold, not only for manufacturers to digest inventory, activation of funds, but also for the general consumers extreme money-saving shopping experience, off-season sales, accounting for annual sales of 1 / 3, ITC has truly become a stronghold of the down clothing.

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