This morning, when Property Trade Eye tracked down and revealed the identify of the Dulwich letting company caught up within the media storm surrounding Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ unlicensed rental property, Harvey & Wheeler declined to remark.
Nonetheless, this night an announcement has been launched by Gareth Martin, head of the agency which confirms that the agency did not comply with by means of on a suggestion to use for the licence.
The assertion successfully exonerates Reeves from blame.
“We alert all our shoppers to the necessity for a licence. In an effort to be useful our earlier property supervisor provided to use for a licence on these shoppers’ behalf, as proven within the correspondence.
“That property supervisor all of a sudden resigned on the Friday earlier than the tenancy started on the next Monday.
“Sadly, the dearth of software was not picked up by us as we don’t usually apply for licences on behalf of our shoppers; the onus is on them to use.
“We’ve got apologised to the house owners for this oversight.
“On the time the tenancy started, all of the related certificates have been in place and if the licence had been utilized for, now we have little doubt it might have been granted.
“Our shoppers would have been below the impression {that a} licence had been utilized for. Though it isn’t our duty to use, we did provide to assist with this.
“We deeply remorse the difficulty prompted to our shoppers as they’d have been below the impression {that a} licence had been utilized for.”
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