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Mortgage Lenders and HMRC Team up to Fight Fraud

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Mortgage lenders and the tax man are teaming up to beat fraudsters by checking income claims against tax returns and...

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Biggest Mortgage Lenders Dominate 81% of the Market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Big Six mortgage lenders account for 81.5% of all buy to let and home buyer mortgages in the UK,...

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Topsy-turvy House Prices Rise and Fall at the Same Time

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The topsy-turvy housing market has produced another crop of confusing statistics this month. The latest house price data from the...

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Minister Plans to Slash Small Company Accounts Red-tape

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th August 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Property investors running small companies could benefit from government plans to cut red-tape. Many property people run their buy to...

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Secret Home Sharers Can Run up Fines for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Sharing digs is booming in popularity as young home-seekers are failing to raise mortgages to buy properties of their own....

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Limited Options for Corporate Buy to Let Loans

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 3

As the largest buy to let lender pulls out of the corporate buy to let market, landlords with companies now...

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Buy to Let Clubs Blamed for Ripping Off Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property clubs that rip off landlords are blamed for rising rental home repossessions. The clubs ran relentless...

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Money Men Predict Surge in Buy to Let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The case for investing in buy to let is moving into sharper perspective as financial firms with a vested interest...

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Ministers Rule Out Regulation for Letting Agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Calls for regulating letting agents have met with a clear message from the government that it’s up to the businesses...

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Mortgage Lending Slumps Again

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Remortgaging is keeping the mortgage market ticking over as lending figures for July slumped again. Gross mortgage lending for the...

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More Britons are on the Move, as More Move In

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The UK is seeing a rising number of people uprooting to France while at the same time seeing more relocating...

Bank of England Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions August 2011

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Bank of England have released their Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions for August, and they have found a ‘subdued’ housing...

Human Rights Warning Over Satellite TV for Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th August 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Landlords who say no to tenants who want to install satellite TV or broadband could infringe their human rights. Following...

Green Deal Firm to Pay Agents £1,000 for Landlord Leads

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Landlords who carry out work to upgrade buy to let properties under the Green Deal could be paying out up...

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Student City Home Prices Outpace Other Property Values

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

House prices in university towns are increasing faster than average – with property values in ‘new’ university towns rising the...

Letting Agent Disputes at a 20 year High, say AIIC

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th August 2011, 15 years ago | 1

After receiving the highest number of complaints against letting agents for 20 years, the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks have...

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Landlords Refinance Rather than Buy New Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords are realigning their property finances rather than purchasing more homes for their portfolios. The latest buy...

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UK Negative Equity Blackspots Revealed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New research from mortgage lenders reveals negative equity black spots across the UK. Around 827,000 homes were in negative equity...