My wife and I want to incorporate our buy-to-let portfolio but our outstanding finance is £600,000 more than the purchase price and capitalised costs associated with the properties. From a tax perspective it seems we could be far better off if we incorporate, especially in a few years time when the restrictions on finance cost relief […]

I’ve got five buy to let properties all in my sole name which I’ve had for around 6 years and they are mortgaged on an interest only basis. Due to the change in mortgage tax relief and the fact that I’m a 40% tax payer earning around £100k a year I’d like to transfer the […]

I bought a one bedroom flat with the freehold in a terraced housed converted into 2 one bedroom flats. The top flat is leasehold but I was not the seller. The leaseholder is my tenant and she is in South Africa. A management company sublet her flat which is above me and has no soundproofing. […]

I’m soon about to start investing with my mum and we’ll be starting with a Buy to Sell strategy using cash. We cannot get a mortgage for now, that is not an option to consider at present. I recently thought about buying a freehold semi commercial property with a flat/flats above then selling each unit […]

For most landlords evicting a tenant is a daunting experience, the whole process leaves landlords often confused and baffled by the process. Gone are the days when landlords could simply write a letter giving the date that they require the property, however most landlords still make this mistake. In accordance with the Housing Act 2004 […]

An elderly aunt of mine bought her parents house under RTB many years ago. She then moved to Italy and allowed her sister to live in the house. My aunt want to sell the house. Some questions arise 1. What tax considerations does she need to address? Im concerned that given she has a primary […]

Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) figures for April show a drop in the number of properties managed by agents in London of 31.8% from 148 per branch in March to only 101 in April. However, the total number in the UK actually rose from 183 to 185 per ARLA member office. This Demand and […]

I have been to court in-order to get a tenant removed, that’s now going to happen very soon, however my neighbour has informed me that the flat has been completely boarded up. What I don’t understand is just who is likely to have done this to my flat, I know I didn’t ask anyone to […]

Can anyone please assist with this scenario?  I am looking to transfer a mortgaged property held in my sole name, to my wife. The property currently has a first and second charge mortgage on it, and a new mortgage would be required to be taken out in my wife’s sole name to redeem the current […]

I will hopefully shortly be in the position of buying the freehold to my upstairs flat and the one underneath it which comprise the two properties in a converted house. Crucially this will be so that I can extend the lease which is now down to around a 70 year term however, can I also […]

Hi all, Now that interest only Resi mortgages have disappeared from the traditional market place, I have noticed a few private banks are still offering them. Has anyone had experience of applying for one (good or bad). We would like to upsize, but with all the interference from the FCA and PRA, the only potentially […]

Buying investment property in the UK is becoming a more achievable goal for many ex-pats as a weakened pound has increased the buying power for those who are remunerated in other currencies. There are many lenders that offer mortgage finance to British ex-pats who want to invest in residential property, but ex-pat mortgages often come […]

47 year old Jason Duffield a Landlord from Birmingham has been convicted of 5 breaches of the Noise Abatement Notice and was ordered to pay a fine of £10,000 plus £6,000 in costs to the council, because his tenant tortured the neighbours with 36 hours of loud dance music. The tenant then disappeared from the […]

We own a 2 bedroomed leasehold flat which we have had for ten years with very few issues over the years. However the freeholder has appointed a company to take over the leasehold management of the development and are chasing us to obtain consent for any subletting of the property – until we get actual […]

In early May, we signed a one-year assured shorthold tenancy agreement due to start on Tues 9 May. We received a phone call from the agent on the afternoon of Thurs 4 May advising us that the current tenant had refused to move out of the property and therefore our tenancy would not be able […]

Readers of Property 118 will be familiar with the catalogue of disasters, data breaches, Illegal licensing conditions etc which have bedeviled the Authority since the introduction of their Landlord licensing scam. Nothing however could have prepared honest hardworking city landlords for the news yesterday, that the chief executive of LCC had been arrested on suspicion […]

I am wanting to sell one of my properties, but it has a tenant living there who I do not wish to evict. The tenancy is a normal AST tenancy so I could serve a s21 Notice and evict him very easily, but he has lived there since July 2009 and has never caused me […]

I have exchanged on 2 flats to complete at the end of the year and starting to set up the finance for them, I need to know if I can now switch to purchasing via a company (I will have to set up) although I’ve exchanged in my own name. Obviously I’ve put this questions […]

Hi all, a bit complicated, I will try to explain the best I can. 13 March, I am decanted in a different property because repairs and improvements has to be carried out, I signed a (TAA) Temporary Accommodation Agreement, which states my housing agrees: 1. Not to change any rent or use and occupation charges […]

I am a landlord and have a flat with a tenant with a regulated tenancy. I have had the flat since 2000. I would like to sell the property at full value. Does anyone have any ideas how to dissolve the lease please? Many thanks Jayne

Octane Capital is now offering its Buy to Let lending with a no “off the shelf” product facility. Instead of a range of prices based on Loan to Value and criteria Octane Capital will base the cost of the mortgage on the perceived risk the borrower represents to the lender. They will lend to individual […]