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Landlords and Tenants Becoming more Energy Conscientious

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th January 2013, 14 years ago | 0

The number of energy inefficient properties owned by landlords is steadily decreasing, according to research from the Association of Residential...

Stamp Duty set to triple for 10% of UK home buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th January 2013, 14 years ago | 0

Around 80,000 people in England and Wales, 10% of the market, could find themselves paying three times more Stamp Duty...

Spam attack on Scottish Association of Landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

25th January 2013, 14 years ago | 3

We suspect that hackers have been busy trying to get into our systems over the last 48 hours via a...

How private landlords can beat the rent arrears problem

Author: Mark Alexander

24th January 2013, 14 years ago | 4

Rent arrears are every landlords worst nightmare. One bad tenant can leave you unable to pay your mortgage with prospects...

Call for CGT roll-over relief to apply to Buy to Let landlords

Author: Readers Question

24th January 2013, 14 years ago | 28

It seems to me to be very unfair that one can sell almost any other business asset and reinvest the...

The House Crowd Raises £1 Million in Crowdfunding Success

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th January 2013, 14 years ago | 0

The House Crowd has now raised over £1 million of crowdfunded investment which has allowed for the revival of 15 properties...

Landlord Regulation is NOT the Answer

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd January 2013, 14 years ago | 7

There is no doubt that our sector is attracting the criminal elements, however, landlord regulation is not the answer. Why...

Tenants Deposit Protection – what are the alternatives?

Author: Readers Question

23rd January 2013, 14 years ago | 5

I find the current tenants deposit protection schemes very time consuming and a waste of money, which all tenants sadly...

Landlords Question about a Section 21 notice

Author: Readers Question

23rd January 2013, 14 years ago | 8

I have issued a section 21 to one of my tenants because he fell behind with his rent. He has...

White Goods Rental for Landlords – does it make sense?

Author: Readers Question

23rd January 2013, 14 years ago | 25

Most of my properties have integrated appliances and where they don’t I’ve always purchased white goods outright as opposed to renting them. I...

Lending Merry-go-round – READERS QUESTION

Author: Readers Question

22nd January 2013, 14 years ago | 11

I wonder if any of ‘s readers have experienced the same problems as I have in arranging a mortgage for...

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Ten percent yield for 1 in 10 buy to let properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd January 2013, 14 years ago | 0

One in ten properties in the UK are delivering gross rental yields of 10% or more, according to Countrywide’s 2012...

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Is rent hiking a good business model?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 24

It’s been a while since I wrote anything in my ‘Don’t shoot the messenger’ series. Mainly because I kept getting...

Tenancy Deposit Question from a Tenant

Author: Readers Question

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 9

We have been renting a house and our landlady used a local estate agent for the process. We are due...

Readers question for building contacts and advice

Author: Readers Question

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 1

We are a Manchester based property company and are in the process of building a small two bedroom two bathroom house,...

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Should I purchase a dryer in a shared house ?

Author: Readers Question

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 32

I have a shared house where the tenants are respectful and love this refurbished property as their home. The only...

Landlord registration is costing £400,000 per rogue

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 1

A multi-million pound scheme introduced to crack down on rogue landlords has resulted in only 11 people being reported to...

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Seller numbers jump by 22% and Rightmove traffic swells by 27%

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2013, 14 years ago | 0

Rightmove have released their House Price index for January which reveals some very interesting trends summarised below. A copy of...