Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 24/11/2025 - 16:22Why would you even bother to try and avoid it when it's not a drama? There might be good reasons to incorporate your business, but to avoid a bit...
Reply to the comment left by Dennis Forrest at 21/11/2025 - 17:20The £50,000 threshold isn't frozen. You need to do quarterly returns from April 2026, for those with qualifying income over £50,000 and from April 2027, for those with qualifying...
There's no need for this to cost a landlord a penny. Sign up for FreeAgent, open a Natwest/RBS/Ulster bank account if you don't already have one and it's 100% free. Link FreeAgent to your bank account and 95% of the...
Their election bus is a clown car. They'll throw out pledges left, right and centre (or right, extreme right and ultra right) knowing they'll never need to fund any of it. They're not a serious party, they're a continuation of...
50mm kingspan in the external walls, 100mm rockwool under-floor and in the suspended ceiling. Reina Colona electric heaters but they don't get official EPC ratings. The tenant will get the benefit of the work for sure, and I'd do it...
I spent thousands on bringing a traditional tenement up to modern insulation standards. Lifted all the floors and put in under-floor insulation in a suspended timber floor, stripped all the walls back to put internal insulation in all external walls,...
Increasingly, I'm dismissing any of these news articles that quote UK wide statistics. The people writing them cherry pick their stats and then try and make claims about people's reasoning that make no sense to me. The tax data they're...
Reply to the comment left by Ian Simpson at 31/12/2022 - 07:12In terms of how they would know that a tenancy exists, in Scotland every property is registered. Also, your tax returns will mention you have property income so they...
Reply to the comment left by Chris Bradley at 28/12/2022 - 12:03100% this. Just did a refurb on a flat but because the assessor couldn't inspect the insulation in the walls we got a D with a recommendation to install...
Are you saying that you want to sell but you're looking for a specific sales price that you can't get right now? If you want maximum flexibility then you don't get more flexible than an unencumbered property. Otherwise, I don't...
Have dealt with this exact situation before. The type of fire-board that was used back in the day isn't the type of asbestos you need to run a mile from. The board can be removed by a competent person with...
Reply to comment left by Ryan Stevens at 24/11/2025 - 16:22
Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 24/11/2025 - 16:22Why would you even bother to try and avoid it when it's not a drama? There might be good reasons to incorporate your business, but to avoid a bit...
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Reply to the comment left by Dennis Forrest at 21/11/2025 - 17:20The £50,000 threshold isn't frozen. You need to do quarterly returns from April 2026, for those with qualifying income over £50,000 and from April 2027, for those with qualifying...
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There's no need for this to cost a landlord a penny. Sign up for FreeAgent, open a Natwest/RBS/Ulster bank account if you don't already have one and it's 100% free. Link FreeAgent to your bank account and 95% of the...
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Their election bus is a clown car. They'll throw out pledges left, right and centre (or right, extreme right and ultra right) knowing they'll never need to fund any of it. They're not a serious party, they're a continuation of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by john Henderson at 22/07/2023 - 11:11
50mm kingspan in the external walls, 100mm rockwool under-floor and in the suspended ceiling. Reina Colona electric heaters but they don't get official EPC ratings. The tenant will get the benefit of the work for sure, and I'd do it...
Read More →22nd July 2023, 3 years ago
I spent thousands on bringing a traditional tenement up to modern insulation standards. Lifted all the floors and put in under-floor insulation in a suspended timber floor, stripped all the walls back to put internal insulation in all external walls,...
Read More →31st December 2022, 3 years ago
Increasingly, I'm dismissing any of these news articles that quote UK wide statistics. The people writing them cherry pick their stats and then try and make claims about people's reasoning that make no sense to me. The tax data they're...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Simpson at 31/12/2022 - 07:12
Reply to the comment left by Ian Simpson at 31/12/2022 - 07:12In terms of how they would know that a tenancy exists, in Scotland every property is registered. Also, your tax returns will mention you have property income so they...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Chris Bradley at 28/12/2022 - 12:03
Reply to the comment left by Chris Bradley at 28/12/2022 - 12:03100% this. Just did a refurb on a flat but because the assessor couldn't inspect the insulation in the walls we got a D with a recommendation to install...
Read More →20th December 2022, 3 years ago
Are you saying that you want to sell but you're looking for a specific sales price that you can't get right now? If you want maximum flexibility then you don't get more flexible than an unencumbered property. Otherwise, I don't...
Read More →24th November 2022, 3 years ago
Have dealt with this exact situation before. The type of fire-board that was used back in the day isn't the type of asbestos you need to run a mile from. The board can be removed by a competent person with...
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