Fun Stuff

This is our favourite and most popular ‘Readers Question’ to date, hence we re-bublish it from time to time. Dear Mark (and all Property118 readers) I think my wife might be having an...

From time to time, usually towards the end of a week, I share an occasional story to give you a chuckle. I do this in the hope that you will share them with other landlords you know in order to help...

Properties on rudely named streets according to a new survey are worth on average £84,000 less than other streets in the same neighborhood. 60% said they would be put off buying a home with an...

Our friends Rob Bence and Rox Dix from the Property Podcast have produced an excellent audio programme which explains various options to calculate rental yields.  They have also added a very cool,

To celebrate their 40th anniversary Oxford letting agent Finders Keepers have compiled this great list of their top ten unusual requests from tenants:...

Apparently “shades of grey” now means something different to what it meant a year or so back. I chuckled when I read a comment left on this forum last week by a landlord who suggested it...

I wrote an article a few weeks ago about a conversation I’d had with a financial advisor about what happens to mortgages when a landlord dies. I didn’t think it would be a very popular...

This weekend I came across a person who could become to landlordism what the legendary Roy Brooks was to the world of Estate Agency. His name is Mick Roberts and he operates in the Nottingham area...

I remember several years back meeting an old farmer boy type landlord in the car park on my way into a Landlord Association meeting. He fit all of the stereotypes I mention in my blog about my first...

It’s been just over a year since Jack joined our team, initially as an intern placement via the University of East Anglia. Jack had just completed a Degree in Media and needed to get some work...