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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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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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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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Landlords urged to only deal with ‘safe’ letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Letting agents are urging landlords to make sure they only do business with firms offering a money protection scheme. Firms...

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The Ultimate Guide to Attracting a Tenant with a Beautiful Lawn

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16th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

As the sun begins to show its face, we’re all taking our first tentative steps around the garden and the...

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Housing benefit rules breach disabled rights, says court

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th May 2012, 14 years ago | 4

The government’s housing benefits policy is in disarray as judges have ruled a crucial test to confirm how big a...

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Third of Landlords Ready to Buy More Rental Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Nearly a third of landlords have plans to buy more rental property this year, according to specialist buy to let...

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Task force targets criminal ‘beds in sheds’ landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Beds in sheds landlords are the target of a new government campaign to crack down on shoddy housing. Housing minister...

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Landlord repairs targeted in health and safety crackdown

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Health and safety inspectors are cracking down on landlords who fail to manage building projects on their rental properties –...

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£85,000 ‘missing’ as letting agent traded fraudulently

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Fraud investigators uncovered a ‘missing’ £85,000 from a failed letting agent that ran into financial problems after the supervising franchise...

All change on the buy to let mortgage front

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Co-Operative Bank buy to let mortgage customers can breathe a sigh of relief as the wholesale scrapping of interest only...

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HMO landlord pays £13,000 for ignoring repair order

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A shared house landlord who ignored council orders to upgrade his property was ordered to pay more than £13,000 in...

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Pets are not a landlord’s best friend

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 6

With former homeowners being forced back into the rental market, The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks has warned landlords to...

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Landlords ready to sink more cash in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords are still purchasing more buy to let homes, according to research by a mortgage lender. Property investors piled cash...

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Taskforce set to tackle beds in sheds scandal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th April 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Beds in sheds landlords face a crackdown by a special government taskforce aimed at closing down criminal landlords and tracking...

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Drugs police raid a cannabis factory once every hour

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Drugs squads are raiding a cannabis factory nearly once every hour and seizing drugs worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Property hijacks prompt fraud alert from the FSA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Financial watchdog is alerting landlords to watch out for property hijacking by fraudsters and crooked mortgage brokers. The Financial Services...