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Small business owner, family man and small portfolio landlord with more than 20 years' experience and fewer than 3 properties held outside a limited company.
"Working very hard to provide essential family accommodation."
Reply to comment left by Simon Kinzley at 14/07/2026 - 16:47
Reply to the comment left by Simon Kinzley at 14/07/2026 - 16:47You don't make anything better by standing still and letting the tax man punch you.
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The governor of the Bank of England is reported to have told Andy Burnham that the priority for the country is economic growth: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/keir-starmer-bank-of-england-labour-middle-east-iran-b3014564.html I would argue that the urgent priority is defence...but the fact is that you only have...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Kinzley at 14/07/2026 - 12:52
Reply to the comment left by Simon Kinzley at 14/07/2026 - 12:52The main way you can 'fight back' is to choose the most tax efficient route for whatever it is that you decide to do: So for example by thinking...
Read More →Reply to comment left by TheBiggerPicture at 14/07/2026 - 12:15
Reply to the comment left by Downsize Government at 14/07/2026 - 12:15We already have energy price caps because of lack of competition in the energy market. However, because of the effect of war-crazed despots surrounded by yes-men invading other nations,...
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Pensioners do have other options: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-15675471/I-help-Britons-want-retire-Portugal-questions-asked-most.html According to the article in the link above you can claim your state pension in Portugal [you can have your personal pension paid in Portugal] the cost of living in Portugal is lower, and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 14/07/2026 - 11:33
Sorry...that should just have read "...and Portugal has just had to move to liberalise the rental market.." Scotland removed rent controls: https://espc.com/news/post/end-of-rent-controls-in-scotland-what-this-means-for-the-market#:~:text=From%20April%202025%2C%20rent%20setting%20will%20return%20to,%28Scotland%29%20Bill%2C%20expected%20to%20take%20effect%20in%202027. According to this link "It may also help attract property investors back to the market. In Edinburgh, demand...
Read More →Reply to comment left by graham mcauley at 14/07/2026 - 10:13
Reply to the comment left by graham mcauley at 14/07/2026 - 10:13....and in Scotland when the SNP introduced rent controls the effect was to increase rents for all new lets and a surge in rents when the controls were removed....
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Kinzley at 13/07/2026 - 19:37
Reply to the comment left by Simon Kinzley at 13/07/2026 - 19:37It is a good answer and I agree with it. In April the Guardian reported a flood of no-fault evictions ahead of implementation of the Labour Renters Rights Act...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Kinzley at 13/07/2026 - 08:53
Reply to the comment left by Simon Kinzley at 13/07/2026 - 08:53I think that "....telling people what they want to hear..." is right, whether you are talking about labour, conservative or the greens. However, labour are interfering in a free...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 13/07/2026 - 11:03
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 13/07/2026 - 11:03There are some aspects of the Labour Renters Rights Act that I have no problem with...for example, not being able to increase the rent more than once a year....
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 12/07/2026 - 08:25
Reply to the comment left by at 12/07/2026 - 08:25Are any of the residential property owning limited companies growing? And what are the public financial and legal signals for them?
Read More →Reply to comment left by Valerie Hollylee at 11/07/2026 - 10:22
Reply to the comment left by Valerie Hollylee at 11/07/2026 - 10:22The government is having to compensate tenants who had insulation fitted under some of these schemes: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/solid-wall-insulation/#jumpto-11 Government shouldn't be doing this: It isn't competent to do it and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Peter Merrick at 11/07/2026 - 04:19
Reply to the comment left by Peter Merrick at 11/07/2026 - 04:19If there was a wave of landlords using section 21 prior to selling their properties then the Renters Rights Act makes no difference in this area because wanting to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Dr David Price at 10/07/2026 - 17:39
Socialist governments like to control markets but no government ever produced a reliable car or a phone you could trust. When governments over-interfere in markets and drive out competition they don't necessarily make things better for consumers. I agree with...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Kinzley at 10/07/2026 - 16:04
Reply to the comment left by Simon Kinzley at 10/07/2026 - 16:04George Osborne (conservative) introduced changes stopping landlords from offsetting their finance costs against rents; this was inflationary, although didn't really bite until interest rates went up. The SNP introduced...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Smith at 10/07/2026 - 07:02
Reply to the comment left by Paul Smith at 10/07/2026 - 07:02Labour celebrated the ending of no-fault evictions and the Labour Renters Rights Act with great joy. It is interesting that the published data don't back up their claims of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Goulder at 08/07/2026 - 19:08
Reply to the comment left by Paul Goulder at 08/07/2026 - 19:08I think that's part of the problem....I used to take social housing tenants, I don't any more, and that's because the government made them too high risk, not because...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Neil Patterson at 08/07/2026 - 21:44
Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 08/07/2026 - 21:44I have often wondered about eligibility for Council Housing. 'Local connections' always seem to be a big part of it. My family has never been able to rely on...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Carol Moscardini at 08/07/2026 - 20:33
The proposal is for a tax on property value; but it's still flawed, because property value isn't clear either. The only time you really know the value of a property is when you sell it. At every other time a...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jack Craven at 08/07/2026 - 16:47
Reply to the comment left by Jack Craven at 08/07/2026 - 16:47They could do. But that's not what happens where I live. What happens is that if the tenant leaves then the council won't sell the 3-bed semi, they'll put...
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