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New mortgage deals for HMO and student landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd February 2012, 14 years ago | 3

– News Sourced by Property118 News Team – Kent Reliance has launched 80% loan-to-value buy to let and HMO mortgages....

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Fizzy hopes bubbly buy to let profits will boost social housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd February 2012, 14 years ago | 3

A cash-rich housing association is looking to buy to let to generate funds for social housing. Thames Valley Housing Association...

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Tenants call for tougher action against criminal landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Tenants are calling for tighter action against criminal landlords who badly manage their homes or charge rip-off fees. The protest...

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Property people get ready for new EPC rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2012, 14 years ago | 46

Landlords and letting agents must comply with a streamlined energy performance certificate scheme from April. The government has given the...

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Get ready for new deposit protection rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th February 2012, 14 years ago | 17

Tough deposit protection rules start soon that close loopholes that let landlords escape fines by returning money to tenants on...

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Buy to let rents are still rising, say letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Rents are still rising – but at a much slower rate than a year ago, according to a study from...

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Making Overpayments on Your Mortgage

Author: Mark Alexander

17th February 2012, 14 years ago | 20

In the last month I have received letters from three of my mortgage lenders suggesting that I should make overpayments...

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Buy to let fraudsters target landlords and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Police are warning about fraudsters who are ripping off landlords and tenants by posing as bogus letting agents. Scotland Yard...

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Record Number of Landlords Making Rental Losses

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 16

Landlords are starting to feel a squeeze on rental profits despite rising rents, according to a new study. The number...

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Be wary of Letting Agents Pushing Rightmove Premium Listings

Author: Glenn Ackroyd

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Rightmove Premium Listings ‘Do they work?’ Rightmove themselves state that their own research indicates that properties with a “Premium Listing”...

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Council hit-team takes on hardcore rogue landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A council hit-team is readying to prosecute rogue landlords who have dodged signing up to a selective licensing scheme. The...

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Lloyds tightens interest only rules for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 14 years ago | 4

Lloyds is the latest bank to tighten up interest-only lending criteria following the lead of Santander. Both banks are significantly...

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Business Booms for Letting Agents as Buy to Let Thrives

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The thriving buy to let market is driving a letting agent boom as firms respond to increasing demand from tenants...

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Property is a Pension for 80% of Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Eight out of 10 landlords plan to supplement their pension income from letting property, according to the latest research by...

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Landlord and his Lover Conned £20,000 in Benefits

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A landlord moved his tenant lover in to his home while she carried on fraudulently claiming benefits for his buy...

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Letting Agent Stole £250,000 from Landlords and Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Letting agent Zulfiqar Hussain must pay his victims £250,000 or face three years in jail after stealing money from dozens...

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Letting Agent Signs up 685 New Would-be Tenants Every Day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

About 500,000 new tenants have registered to rent buy to let homes over the past two years with just one...

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Will Tenant Passports Help Renters & Housing?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 14 years ago | 4

We have witnessed a variety of different challenges which have impacted upon the housing market at different times and in...