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Landlords Need to be Wary of Fraudulent Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords have been warned of tenants fraudulently filling out tenancy agreements with fake names and barely paying rent. Let Insurance...

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Landlords May Have to Pay Water Bills for Runaway Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th January 2012, 14 years ago | 11

Buy to let landlords could be made to pay water bills for departing tenants if they fail to pass on...

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Letting Agents Close Owing Landlords and Tenants Cash

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th January 2012, 14 years ago | 42

Midlands landlords are chasing rents and deposits from a letting agent who suddenly closed for business. Police are looking at...

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Landlords Have High Hopes for Buy to Let in 2012

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

One in five landlords added property to their rental portfolios last year as confidence over interest rates and tenant demand...

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Cannabis Gangs Target Buy to Lets as Drug Factories

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd January 2012, 14 years ago | 10

Police are warning landlords that crime gangs are looking for rental homes to turn into cannabis factories. A clear trend...

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Buy to Let Arrears up – But ‘Experts’ Disagree on Why

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let experts are transmitting mixed messages about the state of the market in two new surveys. The latest...

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Landlords Ready for Massive Rise in Rent Arrears

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th January 2012, 14 years ago | 10

Landlords are bracing for a flood of rent arrears cases as renters struggle with their bills over the festive period....

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Buy to Let Mortgage Fraudsters Jailed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A property developer and lawyer are starting jail sentences after admitting a series of buy to let frauds. Legal executive...

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Necessity is the Mother of Inventories

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords are losing cases when tenants complain about non-return of deposits because they are failing to take good property inventories....

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A 21st Century Letting Agent

Author: Roger Lancaster

17th January 2012, 14 years ago | 15

What should a landlord expect? ARLA have been complaining that the Government should regulate Letting Agents in the same way...

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Buy to Let Mortgage War Hots up with New Deals for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let lenders have fired the first shots in the battle to win the hearts and minds of property...

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Shams, Scams and Blocking Tactics

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

13th January 2012, 14 years ago | 9

By Guest Columnist Ben Reeve-Lewis We live at a time when mortgage repossessions are running at an all time high,...

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Here’s a radical idea – Stop Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Author: Mary Latham

13th January 2012, 14 years ago | 32

I am writing this after reading an article with the opening line “A Labour MP says that every MP he...

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Letting Agent Plans £8 Million Stock Market Float

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Lettings firm Belvoir intends to join the City’s Alternative Investment Market to raise capital for further expansion. The specialist lettings...

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Avoiding being ripped off by the Olympics

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

9th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Having written my article on the predicted downside of renting during the Olympics I thought I had better provide a...

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Frustrated Sellers Forced to Consider Let-to-Move

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th January 2012, 14 years ago | 11

Frustrated sellers are turning into reluctant landlords as the stagnating housing market in some areas has driven buyers away. Around...

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A Tale of Two Toilets

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

5th January 2012, 14 years ago | 24

A strange case came my way today and I thought it a grand example of the sort of world I...

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Benefit Cuts Price Poor Families Out of Buy to Let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th January 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Rents of around a third of private rented homes in Britain are beyond the financial reach of the poorest families...