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Northern Rock BuytoLet Useful Criteria

Author: Neil Patterson

12th September 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Northern Rock BuytoLet who are part of Virgin Money have confirmed they will consider “Day One” remortgages otherwise known as...

Godiva BuytoLet save £2499 on the same rate!

Author: Neil Patterson

12th September 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Godiva BuytoLet, owned by the Coventry Building Society, have further tweaked their Flexible variable and Flexible fixed products by keeping...

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Open Letter to The Property Ombudsman – Agents Operating Illegally

Author: Mark Alexander

7th September 2012, 14 years ago | 23

Dear Property Ombudsman I am very concerned about the number of readers letters that I receive from both landlords and...

Auction Property Refurbishment Case Study & Video

Author: Mark Alexander

6th September 2012, 14 years ago | 2

I’ve been having a twitter conversation with a chap called Yemi Edun who specializes in buying tired, prime location, London...

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Increasing the rental market appeal of your student property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st August 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Recently it was revealed that 15,000 fewer young people had applied for university places starting this academic year*. This reduction...

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Mortgage fraud surges according to Experian

Author: Mark Alexander

22nd August 2012, 14 years ago | 9

Experian®, the global information services company, today revealed a 23 per cent jump in attempted mortgage fraud rates between April...

25 Year fixed rate BuytoLet Mortgage

Author: Neil Patterson

20th August 2012, 14 years ago | 7

The Manchester Building Society has launched two new 25 year fixed rate BuyToLet mortgage products with a 5.74%  and 5.99%...

Landlords should not be allowed to let their own properties

Author: Mark Alexander

17th August 2012, 14 years ago | 55

I’ve recently had a heated exchange of emails with a chap called Mike who’s opinion is that “landlords should not...

Property Refurbishment – A guide for newbies

Author: Mark Alexander

16th August 2012, 14 years ago | 14

I spent most of yesterday with a lovely couple from Luton who emailed me asking for some guidance. After exchanging...

DSS Tenants and Pets Considered “subject to guarantees”

Author: Mark Alexander

15th August 2012, 14 years ago | 10

If you want to get your phone ringing off the hook next time you advertise a property to let just...

My Landlords Insurance is up for renewal again

Author: Mark Alexander

15th August 2012, 14 years ago | 8

As I sifted through the post this morning I thought to myself ‘how time flies‘ – my landlords insurance is...

Guru crash! UK property scams discussed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th August 2012, 14 years ago | 5

When it comes to deciding where & how to invest, one of the most vital things a novice investor can...

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Void periods – one of the landlords greatest enemies

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13th August 2012, 14 years ago | 10

As we all know, the landlord’s most dreaded expense is void periods and I am always looking at innovative ways...

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Buy When There Is Blood In The Streets

Author: Frazer Fearnhead

13th August 2012, 14 years ago | 4

John D Rockefeller, the richest man who ever lived, once said “buy when there is blood in the streets”. Warren...

Life Insurance for Landlords – IFA readers letter

Author: Readers Question

10th August 2012, 14 years ago | 3

As an avid reader of Property118.com I was very interested to read a couple of recent articles 1) Should landlords...

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Perfect tenant of 6 years turns heroin addicted prostitute – EVICTED!

Author: Mark Alexander

10th August 2012, 14 years ago | 14

I first let to these tenants in 2003. They already had a daughter and later gave birth to a second....

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Trading Company BuyToLet + Landlords Tax Strategy

Author: Mark Alexander

8th August 2012, 14 years ago | 2

It is not easy to arrange a BuyToLet mortgage for a trading company, the few lenders that do offer loans...

Taxation strategies for capital raising on a BuyToLet basis for retirement

Author: Mark Alexander

6th August 2012, 14 years ago | 7

It is quite rare for me to share taxation strategies here in full on my blog, especially taxation strategies for...