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More tenants in arrears as rents keep rising
Around 75,000 buy to let tenants are in rent arrears – a 13% increase on the same period last year, according to rent receivers...
Gang-of-five challenges EU buy to let regulation
A gang-of-five of mortgage industry trade bodies has joined forces to challenge European Union proposals for mortgages that include...
Property investors mount Inside Track legal challenge
Buy to let property investors are set to challenge collapsed property firms Inside Track and Instant Access Properties over misselling...
What to do if your letting agent goes bust
Landlords are regularly falling victim to rogue letting agents who suddenly shut up shop and take their money and run.
The two most...
Mortgage rates are at their cheapest since 1988
Mortgage rates have tumbled to their cheapest since records started almost 25 years ago.
Fixed and tracker rate mortgages are at their...
One property tax for the rich…and another for the rest
Paying stamp duty and capital gains tax on a property sale is definitely a case of one law for the rich and another for the not so...
Latest property horror stories
Council spends £25,000 on repairing death-trap HMO
A death-trap letting property seized by a council because the tenants lived in...