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BBC has a cheap bash at landlords yet again!
The BBC has launched another story about substandard buy to let homes and ‘rogue landlords’ – but just who is covered by the tired old cliché?
The UK has about 3.5 million buy to let properties...
Buy to let mortgage deals hot up for landlords...
New lenders are eyeing buy-to-let as others are shaping up their deals to give landlords a wider choice of rates and products.
Yorkshire Building Society has indicated a move in to the market before July...
85% LTV buy to let is back!
Somebody had to be first to do it but who would have expected it to be Kensington Mortgages?
HMRC warns of online tax rebate phishing scam...
Taxpayers should not respond to bogus emails from fraudsters offering tax rebates on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs.
HMRC has revealed crime gangs have sent out millions of fake ‘phishing’...
Switching on to finding tenants with a phone app...
Looking for a home to rent online from home or the office is easy – but tracking down properties is a lot harder when you are on the move.
Property investors warned against NMD scammers...
Fraud investigators are warning property club investors against scammers that are offering bogus below-market-value deals with NMD (No Money Down) financing.
Minister pledges to help with housing benefit rent arrears...
Welfare Minister Lord Freud has pledged to look at the problems caused by tenants who refuse to pay their landlords and “play the system” to live rent free.
Speaking at the British Property Federation’s...
Landlords refuse to cut rents for benefit tenants...
Buy to let landlords are on a collision course with the government as most are determined to defy pleas to reduce their rents in line with proposed cuts for tenants on benefits.
Don’t make renting a home a life sentence, say under 30’s...
The shameful state of Britain’s housing market is revealed in a new poll of attitudes to renting carried out by one of the country’s biggest housebuilders.
Mapping crime hot spots could affect rents and house prices...
Buy to let landlords could see their rents and property prices plunge if they are listed in a crime black spot on police maps published online for the first time.
Solar panel tax loophole is a bright idea for landlords...
Some landlords have had the bright idea of making money from their tenants by renting their roofs to solar energy firms that generate power they can sell.
Commercial property owners are missing out on massive tax breaks...
Capital allowances, particularly on property acquisitions, are often unclaimed or under claimed because of the difficulty in identifying and valuing qualifying expenditure or simply knowing what allowances...
House prices soar 91% in 10 years despite credit crisis...
Despite the credit crisis and recession, house prices have almost doubled in the past 10 years, according to mortgage lender the Halifax. That’s an annual compound growth rate of over 7%.
Top cop’s buy to let was a cannabis factory...
A red-faced top cop at Scotland Yard rented out his former home to a gang of drug dealers who set up a cannabis factory.
Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Rod Jarman let out his £400,000...
Hit-and-run fraudsters prey on empty buy-to-lets...
Empty buy to let properties are increasingly targets for hit-and-run fraudsters cheating firms and benefit agencies.
Crooks often set up false accounts for empty homes with mail order firms and try to...
Rightmove profits from Google property disaster...
Property portal Rightmove is tightening up dominance of the UK online property market as search giant Google flees the market.
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Paragon lines up £85 million of landlord loans...
Buy to let specialist Paragon has advanced £8.8 million of loans and has a further £75 million of property investment deals in the pipeline, according to the lender’s interim management statement.
Corporate property investors pump cash in to student housing...
Big student housing developments are still continuing apace despite finance problems squeezing the rest of the residential property investment market.
Are you witnessing increasing rent defaults?
I’ve read a number of press releases and quoted many of them here in my Blog articles stating that circa 12% of tenants are in arrears. However, my own experience is less than 5% of my rents were...
What’s rental demand like in your town?
One of my employees is very worried at the moment as her landlord has severed notice to move back into the property and my employee can’t find another to rent in the part of the city she wants to...