Legal

Is Landlord Licensing Compliant In Your Area?

Author: Mark Alexander

25th May 2016, 10 years ago | 0

You may well have seen the latest articles posted by Larry Sweeney which highlight the flaws in the Liverpool Landlord...

Property118 Landlords Association – should we?

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd May 2016, 10 years ago | 98

Having raised over £500,000 to take West Bromwich Mortgage Company to the Court of Appeal it has been suggested by...

SDLT on Rental Property Business Incorporation

Author: Mark Alexander

20th January 2016, 10 years ago | 11

It is our view that SDLT will be payable on transfer on the full value of property even if only...

Beneficial Interest Company Trusts – Avoid Refinancing When Incorporating

Author: Mark Alexander

6th December 2015, 10 years ago | 0

Many of the landlords I have spoken to about incorporation (to avoid the effects of the new tax changes) have...

2015 Finance Bill Receives Royal Assent

Author: Mark Alexander

18th November 2015, 10 years ago | 7

18th November 2015 may well be marked in history as the beginning of the end for most private buy-to-let landlords.  Restrictions...

Avoiding Restrictions on Finance Cost Relief for Landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

11th November 2015, 10 years ago | 0

  GENERAL GUIDANCE  If you have been retaining profits after paying the higher rates of income tax then you have...

Mortgage Express / UKAR calling in instant remortgages

Author: Mark Alexander

21st June 2015, 11 years ago | 20

I am aware of two Mortgage Express / UKAR borrowers who received a letter this weekend calling in their loans,...

Landlords rejoice as Superstrike problems are no more!!

Author: Tessa Shepperson

29th March 2015, 11 years ago | 25

Landlords up and down the country will (or should) be celebrating the demise of the ridiculous rules we have all...

Evictions carried out by HCEOs – the MoJ finally issue guidance

Author: David Asker

27th March 2015, 11 years ago | 0

According to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) there have been times when county court bailiffs and High Court Enforcement Officers...

Collaborative Divorce for Landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

17th February 2015, 11 years ago | 0

Around 20% of my Consultancy clients come to me for advice about divorce. Perhaps unusually, every divorce case I have...

FOS rule West Brom Tracker Rate Hike is fair

Author: Mark Alexander

16th November 2014, 11 years ago | 46

The FOS (Financial Ombudsman Service) have done it again!  In the past the FOS have controversially agreed that rate hikes...

Evicting Tenants – A sister website to Property118

Author: Mark Alexander

5th November 2014, 11 years ago | 3

We have so much information on Property118 about evicting tenants that we decided to produce a simplified website to consolidate...

Landlords Revenge – Prosecuting Rogues

Author: Neil Patterson

27th October 2014, 11 years ago | 24

If you are angry about being ‘ripped off’ and being left out of pocket then you probably don’t relish the...

Prosecuting Rogue Agents

Author: Mark Smith Head of Chambers Cotswold Barristers

28th September 2014, 12 years ago | 0

There is a solution, however, civil litigation or involving the Police is highly unlikely to to provide it.  If a...

Section 21 update – Spencer v Taylor

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th July 2014, 12 years ago | 6

As reported by Nearly Legal concerning section 21 rules the tenant in Spencer v Taylor has been refused permission to...

Evicting tenants just to break a contract with a letting agent

Author: Mark Alexander

16th July 2014, 12 years ago | 10

I was talking to Tony Sheldon at LettingSupermarket.com this morning about the increasing number of landlords who are being forced...

Skipton Building Society Legal Action

Author: Mark Alexander

2nd April 2014, 12 years ago | 34

In 2010 the Skipton Building Society broke a promise to over 60,000 mortgage account holders.  The basis of that promise...

Mortgage Express UKAR LPA Receivership

Author: Mark Alexander

20th March 2014, 12 years ago | 13

It has come to our attention that Mortgage Express (now UKAR – UK Asset Resolution) have recently been appointing LPA receivers with...