Neil Gammie of Birmingham I’ve been a professional landlord building a portfolio of properties in the Edgbaston area of Birmiingham since 1986. I handle all aspects of my business except finding/vetting tenants which I leave to a couple of trusted local lettings agents. I try to keep abreast of legislation and the increasingly perverse number […]

It’s devastating when you put your trust and faith into a letting agency, you pay them a monthly management fee; and all of a sudden they disappear with rent and the tenant’s deposit. This week saw Smith & Jones Lettings in Market Deeping made bankrupt without a warning to their clients or time for them to act.

It was announced in the press that The Mortgage Works has today launched a 2.49% 2 year fixed rate, which is correct, but now I have uploaded all their product changes to our BuytoLet mortgage calculator I can see that is not the real story. More importantly to most BuytoLet investors the products with a […]

“Lowest ever BTL interest rates released!” It’s a great headline grabber isn’t it? Well I actually saw this on another property forum and I thought I ought to respond.

On 14th June 2013 Lord Justice Lloyd delivered his judgement on an appeal from the Wandsworth County Court in the case of Superstrike Ltd vs Marino Rodrigues. Since its publication there has been a lot of discussion on the online property forums and at local NLA meetings about the potential impact that this judgement may […]

So you have got your tenancy agreement and read it through. You are happy with most of it but there are just one or two things you don’t like. Is it all right for you to change them? The answer to this will really depend on what it is you want to change, but generally you […]

The FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) have fined a Sale and Rent Back (SARB) landlord, who was also a home finance arranger, nearly £1 million for misleading and defrauding homeowners in financial trouble looking to sell and rent back their properties. The FCA were investigating the involvement of Mr Gurpreet Singh Chadda in seven sale and […]

Hello all, I am a new member of the Inventory Clerks and Energy Assessors Linkedin Group so I thought I should write an article to introduce myself. Thank you Laura for allowing me to become a member by the way. I have been a landlord since 1989, therefore I am a potential customer to many […]

I just wanted to share with landlords that sub-letting scams are on the rise! It is my belief that these scams produce three lots of victims …. the landlord, the sub-let tenants, and the wider landlord community, who get wrongly blamed as well and lumped into the anti-landlord campaigns run by the likes of Shelter.

Your thoughts on the Superstrike Ltd vs Rodrigues Court of Appeal implications please? At Property118 we have nearly 200,000 UK landlords and letting agents subscribed to our daily newsletters and Google News feed but very few L&T Lawyers engaging on our forums. (Yes we are an official Google Publisher). With this in mind I would […]

At Property118 we have nearly 200,000 UK landlords and letting agents subscribed to our daily newsletters and Google News feed but very few Domestic Energy Assessors engaging on our forums. (Yes we are an official Google Publisher). With this in mind I would like to offer members of this Linkedin Group a complimentary membership of […]

I am a landlord specialising in renting to DSS Tenants – ask me anything 🙂 Update You may remember the video’s I shared with you back in June and November? Well this is what the place I video’d in November looks like now, just three weeks later … My original video’s from June and November […]

I’ve been informed by my letting agents that my property has been given an EPF rating of F. What I don’t understand is why, it’s not that it’s poorly insulated. My house has more than the industry standard loft insulation, it has cavity wall insulation and is fully double glazed throughout, plus a modern and […]

Two years ago we received a letter from the freehold manager of our leasehold flat saying we now require a standard or global licence to let, and if we did not obtain either within 14 days a solicitor would continue with legal action. When we purchased the property nothing was ever mentioned about these licences […]

Located next to the picturesque Shropshire Union Canal and Bridge Lock, this canal side student property development consists of just 36 en-suite student rooms spread across 2 separate blocks. It is located just a short walk to all of the universities and the city centre and will definitely be an extremely attractive accommodation option for […]

The potential implications of the ruling that a Statutory Periodic Tenancy is a new tenancy, according to the Court of Appeal ruling in Superstrike Ltd vs Rodruigues, has reverberated around the industry at lightening speed. Every popular landlord forum, blog and Facebook group has carried articles and thousands have been motivated to express concern. Indeed, […]

The impact of the bedroom tax and reforms to housing benefit – has this led to more impoverished renters? One of the greatest concerns for tenants with the reforms is being able to manage their finances from a weekly to monthly basis and having to deal with taking one, in many cases reduced, payment in […]

Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Kathleen Gell as convenor of the newly formed Council of Letting Agents (CLA). This new division of SAL aims to support and represent the interests of SAL letting agent members.

Birmingham City Council have sent a strong message to landlords who let in the city – “We support good landlords” Senior officers of the city council have been in discussions with the West Midlands Regional Representative  of the National Landlords Association (NLA)  since 2011 when HMO licences were about to come up for renewal but it was […]

Auctions are an excellent way to sell tenanted property because auction rooms attract investors. A key benefit from the sellers perspective is there is no requirement to decant tenants, thus ensuring rental revenue right up to the point of sale and removing costly void periods. Keeping tenants in situ also has the added benefit that […]

Mark Alexander, editor and founder of Property118 tweeted the Deposit Protection Providers last night highlighting his fears on the ramifications of the Superstike vs Rodrigues Tenancy Deposit Protection Court of Appeal case. They are calling emergency meetings. See the response below and read their interim press statement. @iamalandlord Hi, here is our official statement with […]