Archive: July 2017

51% of UK card payments are now contactless

Call me a sceptic because I have always been on edge about having a contactless card but new data from Barclaycard’s Contactless Spending Index shows contactless card payments rose by more than a third in the last year. In a record-breaking year for “touch and go” payments, which have a...

SHOULD INDEPENDENT INVENTORIES BE COMPULSORY FOR LANDLORDS?

Let’s put it bluntly can anyone adequately describe the term ‘fair wear and tear’? Landlords and tenants have been arguing over this question for a long time – sometimes formally, when it comes to deposit disputes at the end of a tenancy. Alternative Dispute Resolution services tend to side with...