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Cheapest homes in England sell for just £8,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The cheapest homes in England and Wales were sold for just £8,000 in April, according to the latest Land Registry...

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Letting agents slammed as fees go through the roof

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th May 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Letting agents are charging fees of up to £600 to tenants who want to privately rent a home in Wales,...

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Property investors face a new £420 million tax blitz

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th May 2012, 14 years ago | 11

Landlords and second home owners who leave their properties standing empty face a new tax blitz. The government is to...

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Property plays a vital role for funding pensions

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Property investors with buy to let rentals and holiday homes expect to supplement their pensions with cash from renting or...

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Mortgage famine fuels buy to let rent rises

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Rent rises are fuelled by a mortgage famine that is forcing home owners that cannot sell to become reluctant landlords...

Lenders cut rates with new buy to let mortgage deals

Author: Neil Patterson

24th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let mortgage borrowing is expected to increase even more as lenders switch funds away from movers and first...

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Letting agents may go bust as illegal fees campaign takes off

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th May 2012, 14 years ago | 10

Landlords are warned to check out that their letting agents protect their money as a new scheme helping tenants reclaim...

CGT and divorce for buy to let landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Breaking up is hard to do – and that applies to a property portfolio as much as a marriage.  Luckily,...

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Buy to Let is a Living for Many

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

According to the latest Landlords Panel research by BDRC Continental, one in four buy to let landlords own their property...

Godiva resurrect buy to let capped rates

Author: Neil Patterson

23rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Godiva the specialist buy to let arm of the Coventry Building society is bringing capped rates back into the market...

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Tessa Shepperson’s New “Landlord Law Made Easy” Course

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 5

Don’t you get fed up sometimes by the amount of law we are expected to know? We have to comply...

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Landlords in Wales must sign up for licence to let homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd May 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Thousands of buy to let and shared house landlords in Wales will have to sign up to a register before...

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London buy to let rents 78% higher than rest of UK

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

London rents are 78% higher than those in the rest of the country, according to the latest figures from landlord...

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Build to let is answer to UK housing problems, says industry

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The government is failing low income householders as buy to let rents rise, despite cutting housing benefits to try to...

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Auction homes sell for 37% less than average house prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Homes going under the hammer at auctions are going up in value, but are still significantly below average house prices....

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Will Greeks mass migrate to the UK?

Author: Mark Alexander

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 8

Having thought through the economic problems in Greece I have to ask the question, will Greeks mass migrate to the...

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London council wants to licence 35,000 buy to lets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Newham Council has completed stage one of a grandiose plan to licence 35,000 buy to let tenancies. The Labour-led council...

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Are you a property trader or investor?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th May 2012, 14 years ago | 2

The state of the housing markets has led to many property people changing strategy to avoid losing money on sales....