If the general public borrow money to buy a car they don’t get tax relief on the finance costs. However, car rental businesses do, regardless of whether they are operated as a sole trader, a partnership or a company. They offset their finance costs off against their rental income on the basis that Ina few […]

I have 2 rental properties. One rental property is mortgage free and the other property has a mortgage. Both the rental properties are under my name. My wife has no income and hence doesn’t pay any tax.  I am considering transferring my mortgage free property to my wife and then getting a mortgage on this […]

New housing statistics published today show overall housing output in Scotland continuing to flatline with only 88 more homes ( 1%) built in 2016 than the year before.  Figures also indicate that things won’t be improving any time soon with a fall in the number of homes (279 / 2%) being started in the same […]

A recent Knight Frank report predicts that by 2021 there will be 5.79 million households renting from the Private Rental Sector (PRS). With declining home ownership this means UK PRS households will increase from a 21% share now to 24% of all households by 2021. Other statistics in the report show there are now 4.3 […]

I’m getting nervous about the SDLT exemption available for partnerships incorporating being withdrawn. Also, in the last two Budgets there has been mention of incorporation relief being “simplified” – what does that mean? Could it mean a withdrawal for businesses that don’t trade, or perhaps only property rental businesses if recent history is anything to […]

The is a lot of changing Legislation, Tax and property issues facing Landlords at we speak. I have noticed a lot of Sales in Auction of Property Portfolios and a lot of empty houses being sold off by landlords. With the Tenant Tax looming, potential for Agent No fees and No deposits What is the […]

LettingSupermarket.com has been independently valued by KBS Corporate at £3,500,000. On 15th July 2015 LettingSupermarket.com raised £250,000 via the crowdcube crowdfunding platform. At that time the business was valued at £1,250,000. These investors have experienced growth of 180% in their share values.  A further round of crowdfunding raised £125,000 via the seedrs website on 30th […]

Hi Guys, got an interesting one I am trying to work out the method to be used to review the rent. The residential property has a Lease of 43 years, with yearly reviews but I cannot workout from the clause what method is used to review the rent. The clause reads ‘On each of the […]

New ‘Expert Property Panel’ to address emerging industry issues at National Landlord Investment Show. Registrations for the flagship National Landlord Investment Show, taking place on Thursday 15th June at London Olympia, have reached an unprecedented level following the announcement of a new ‘expert property panel’, which has been added as part of the seminar programme. […]

This eBook is just five pages long, including the cover page. It is completely free for Property118 members to download (you must be logged in) and you are free to share it with whoever you wish. It explains how inexpensive it can be for landlords to incorporate their business, compared to most people’s perceptions. We also explain […]

LettingSupermarket.com are now officially open 24 hours a day. Outside of normal office hours there will also be a telephone service from 5.30pm through to 9am to manage viewings and late night landlord enquiries. We were so impressed with how LettingSupermarket.com manage our own buy to let property portfolio we decided to acquire a substantial […]

Considering the Hung Parliament result in the general election last week, and the subsequent agreement in whatever format it evolves to for the Conservatives to work with the DUP, it is worth a closer look at the DUP policies that concern the Housing Market and the Private Rental Sector. From the DUP website on Policies […]

After 2 months I have received a response to my FOI request for more detailed information on the complaints received about private landlords / property in Nottingham City. To recap NCC are proposing a city wide licencing scheme at a cost of £600 per property(43,000 in the city) as they feel there is a problem […]

Food for thought if the next housing minister is in your constituency and this is a bit late in the day, but only dawned on me when Gavin Barwell lost his seat. These are really rough figures so take with a pinch of salt, but you’ll get the idea. In Croydon roughly 177k people voted. […]

I moved into a housing association property 6 months ago and have had problems with my neighbours since day one. The property is a house converted into two flats. I live upstairs and the neighbour is below me. I have to enter the property via a door at the front, and then head up the […]

If you would like to get hold of a first edition PDF copy of one or both of our latest eBooks, before they go on sale on Amazon Kindle, this is your opportunity to do so. As for all products and services provided directly by Property118 Limited, these eBooks come with a guarantee of total […]

I’ve recently purchased a lease hold, top floor flat, with a leasehold stating the loft space is part of the flat. Moved in couple of weeks ago, and settling in. Two weeks later (yesterday) i received a call from the freeholder himself wanting to arrange a meeting about buying the loft space, so he can […]

It is official the 2017 General election will be a Hung Parliament. What Does this mean for Landlords? With the two major parties both being Anti-Landlord could this be a Good thing? Will any new minority Conservative or Coalition Government find it difficult to implement further new Anti-Landlord agendas? What would potentially a Softer Brexit […]

After a lot of research I have unfortunately learned that the new SDLT rates with a 3% surcharge will apply to myself. I am currently a landlord, but still living with parents. I am in the process of buying my first main residential property however, as I am not selling any home ‘disposing’ and only […]

I’ve been looking at whats been said on this already and I’m a bit confused. Let me describe my scenario. My wife has a property, gifted to her in her name, bought a couple of years ago for £285k. She now wants to sell. Its value is £320k. We have other rental properties owned jointly […]

During our recent webinar on the eviction of private tenants, we received a number of questions relating to tenant deposits. In this article, our guest presenter Yezdan Izzet from Bolt Burdon answers all the deposit-related questions that were raised. If a deposit has not been registered is it worth registering it prior to the hearing […]