Auction House Devon and Cornwall are pleased to announce that  their property auction catalogue for their next auction on 11thApril 2013 is now available for download. The venue is Lewtrenchard Manor, Lewdowen, Okehampton, Devon EX20 4PN Start time 2 pm (14:00 hours)

HEB Chartered Surveyors are pleased to announce that  their property auction catalogue for their next auction on 17th April 2013 is now available for download. The venue is The Gateway Hotel, Nuthall Road, Cinderhill, Nottingham NG8 6AZ Start time 2:30 pm (14:30 hours)

The February edition of SpareRoom’s Room Rental Index, giving average room rents across the UK, is now available to download (please see below). Weekly room rents have increased 7% since last February, from an average of £107.44 to £114.86 across the UK. Amongst the big cities that experienced large increases, we’ve seen Edinburgh rents up […]

Malcolm Ingham has raised an interesting landlords tax question “Our son has a mortgage on a leasehold flat which he owns.Having gone through some lean years in a business he runs, the bank of mum and dad have loaned considerable sums to him, which he will find difficult to repay. He has offered to let […]

Some time ago I went to Spain to buy a flat off plan with a view to selling it on for a profit once the build completed or perhaps to let it out. I used a couple of different agents to source a flat and agreed to buy. Contracts were drawn up and we paid […]

Gajendra Modi of Lytham St Annes I am a Landlord and support The Good Landlords campaign

Gwen Davies of Burry Port I have been a Landlord since 2001, and believe in keeping up to date with all regulations and providing good quality safe accommodation. Most of my properties are within a five mile radius of my home. I always try to have a good relationship with my tenants and respect them […]

EPC regulations are beginning to worry many landlords so I would like to raise this question; “should landlords be selling leasehold flats with a Band F & G EPC rating now?” Just in case you are not aware, it will be illegal for landlords to rent out Band F and G rated properties from 2018. […]

In this time of austerity, we must all put our shoulder to the wheel, do our bit, and pay our fair share. However, over the last few years with all the new requirements for Landlords and the resulting costs and additional work and some of the more recent developments, I wonder if Landlords are seen […]

Naomi Heaton, CEO of London Central Portfolio Limited has shared her four point plan which she’s asked Chancellor George Obsourne to consider for the forthcoming Budget.  With days to go until the 2013 Budget, time is running out for Osborne to make a real difference in his Budget mandate. Naomi says her plan could help the Conservatives get […]

I receive a lot of private emails from readers asking who I use personally to manage my properties. If they are local, my brother and I tend to manage them ourselves. However, we do use agents to manage some of the properties we own outside Norfolk. One day, we might decide to take up golf […]

Rowan Ferguson needs some advice on whether landlords can roll over losses for tax purposes. Her “Readers Questions” article follows:- “I Purchased a buy-to-let in October 2012, have incurred £5,00 on expenses, the bulk of which was for necessary repairs and maintenance which has taken 5 months.

Nigel Spalding of Rotherhithe I am a Landlord and a photographer

Gennie Nash of Hurst Real Estates Leigh-on-Sea We are a small family run business that has been running for over 40 years. We provide clean, well maintained, unfurnished flats at reasonable prices. Our properties are located in the Corringham and Leigh-on-Sea areas of Essex.

I’ve made a real Deposit Protection BooBoo. My tenant had a new lease and at that point I should have re protected her deposit. However, because she never returned her signed lease I completely forgot. I always wait to get their signed copy back before I re protect in case they don’t want to renew. […]

Award-winning property brand Auction House has experienced its most successful month in the company’s six year history, with record numbers of lots being entered and sold, contributing to its highest ever monthly total raised. February saw 19 auctions held across the UK, with 385 lots offered and 294 lots sold, raising a total of £28.4m.

Offering investors assured 10% NET returns for the first year and managed/let by Sheffield letting agency Sheff-Lets, this Sheffield Student Accommodation at the Dunfields development is already generating a huge amount of local interest, at affordable prices starting from just £44,000 making them an ideal investment opportunity for cash buyers. The latest concept in student […]

A growing number of Landlords are falling for a “Guaranteed Rent” scam which enables a landlord or an agent to sublet a property. There are several examples of how this works, below is a relatively “clean” one, I will share a much nastier example of how landlords are being stung as comments begin to appear […]

Property auction results record 6-year highs in February with total sales of £445,455,076 David Sandeman Managing Director of EIG reports that the overall market figures are positive, with increases made in almost every parameter across both residential and commercial sectors. A noticable highlight is that 3,083 lots sold last month marking a rise of over […]

My seven year old boiler keeps breaking down. I must have had about 15 visits from British Gas for the past 18 months. I have a service/maintenance contract with them but they are unable to say why there have been so many breakdowns. For example, they had to change the fan three times during this […]

If you serve a section 21 notice to a tenant one month before their fixed tenancy expires i.e it will rolled over to a statutory periodic before it comes into force, do you serve Section 21(4a)for a periodic tenancy or a Section 21(1)b for a fixed tenancy as it was still fixed when it was […]