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Fizzy hopes bubbly buy to let profits will boost social housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd February 2012, 14 years ago | 3

A cash-rich housing association is looking to buy to let to generate funds for social housing. Thames Valley Housing Association...

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Tenants call for tougher action against criminal landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Tenants are calling for tighter action against criminal landlords who badly manage their homes or charge rip-off fees. The protest...

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Property people get ready for new EPC rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2012, 14 years ago | 46

Landlords and letting agents must comply with a streamlined energy performance certificate scheme from April. The government has given the...

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Get ready for new deposit protection rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th February 2012, 14 years ago | 17

Tough deposit protection rules start soon that close loopholes that let landlords escape fines by returning money to tenants on...

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Just two towns defy property price slump

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

House prices in just two towns as high now than at the peak of the housing bubble in 2007, according...

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First ever government-backed mortgage indemnity scheme set to launch in March

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th February 2012, 14 years ago | 4

-By Guest Columnist Daniel Coleman The first ever government-backed mortgage indemnity scheme is set to be officially launched within the...

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Making Overpayments on Your Mortgage

Author: Mark Alexander

17th February 2012, 14 years ago | 20

In the last month I have received letters from three of my mortgage lenders suggesting that I should make overpayments...

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Buy to let fraudsters target landlords and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Police are warning about fraudsters who are ripping off landlords and tenants by posing as bogus letting agents. Scotland Yard...

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Be wary of Letting Agents Pushing Rightmove Premium Listings

Author: Glenn Ackroyd

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Rightmove Premium Listings ‘Do they work?’ Rightmove themselves state that their own research indicates that properties with a “Premium Listing”...

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Business Booms for Letting Agents as Buy to Let Thrives

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The thriving buy to let market is driving a letting agent boom as firms respond to increasing demand from tenants...

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Property is a Pension for 80% of Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Eight out of 10 landlords plan to supplement their pension income from letting property, according to the latest research by...

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Letting Agent Signs up 685 New Would-be Tenants Every Day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

About 500,000 new tenants have registered to rent buy to let homes over the past two years with just one...

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Will Tenant Passports Help Renters & Housing?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 14 years ago | 4

We have witnessed a variety of different challenges which have impacted upon the housing market at different times and in...

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RLA Counter Shelter’s Five Point Plan

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

– News Sourced by Property118 News Team – Following Shelter’s five point plan to step up its fight against rogue...

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Buy to Let Set to Take Over as the New Social Housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

News Sourced by Property118 News Team The rise of buy to let is more about the decline of social housing...

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Cloud Over Builders may have Silver Lining for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Buy to let looks to continue to prosper as surveyors presented a drab picture of the construction industry. The government...

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Best Places to Grab a Discount on House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let investors searching for homes offering the best value need to look north, according to online portal Zoopla....

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Rents are Lower than Most Landlords Believe, Claims Belvoir

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Too many self-interest groups are inflating the real rents buy to let landlords are picking up, claims letting specialist Belvoir....