House prices are still slowly going down – but worries about mortgage interest rates and jobs are likely to buoy the market, according to the Halifax. The lender, one of the UK’s largest mortgage providers and part of the Lloyds TSB banking group, explained a fall in home values by 1.4% in April from March […]

How to handle VAT on labour and materials for property conversions is a recurring problem for landlords and property developers. The question pops up regularly from property investors who have ventured in to shared house conversions. Shared houses, or houses in multiple occupation (HMO) present special planning, VAT and tax problems as they are wrapped […]

Buy to let landlords and first time buyers are in the firing line as the main perpetrators of mortgage fraud. Credit scoring firm Experian is warning mortgage brokers and lenders to watch out for false mortgage applications after the number of fraud cases has doubled in the past five years.

Cannabis factories is a growing problem for buy to let landlords as more criminal gangs rent homes to grow the Class B drug. Recent cases across the country have highlighted a common thread in the gangs that are running the farms –

Many of our readers invest into a variety of asset classes with a view to spreading their risk. Our business is property and we openly share our most successful strategies here. On behalf of our Members we have looked into other companies offering a similar service to ourselves but covering other asset classes. We came […]

Landlords and tenants locked in disputes over keeping rental deposits can take advice about negotiating a settlement from a new guide, jointly published by the three deposit protection agencies.

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Crazie & Co. Commercial Finance Brokers operate from Southampton UKbut they arrange business financing for SME’s throughout the England and Wales.  The owners were in commercial banking and arranged all forms of funding from development finance and commercial mortgages through to invoice discounting and lease purchase finance. Crazy & Co are not NACFB Members but probably would […]

Crazie Property Lettings Company operates in Swindon, Wiltshire and surrounding areas to offer both landlords and tenants a property lettings management service of the highest standards.  Due to overwhelming demand from tenants our conscientiousness and caring approach to managing properties and relationships between landlords and tenants we are constantly looking to take on the lettings and management of quality rental property […]

The Crazie Mortgage Deals Company operates in Swindon and the surrounding areas to offer buy to let landlords and property investors a finance broking service which is truly unbelievable. NOTE – this is a spoof to demonstrate our SEO capabilities but please carry on reading,  By all means skip the next two paragraphs and don’t […]

Drawing money from a property ‘cash machine’ is over and home owners will have to live within their means, a senior banker has predicted. Speaking at the Building Societies Association annual conference in Birmingham, Credit Suisse’s senior adviser Robert Parker has claimed mortgage rules will stop home owners taking money from property values stoked by […]

Pat Barber, Chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC), explains how wear and tear disputes between landlords and tenants could be avoided by using independent property inventory clerks.

Pleasant Town Property Lettings Company operates in Pleasant Town UK and surrounding areas to offer both landlords and tenants a property lettings management service of the highest standards.  Due to overwhelming demand from tenants our conscientiousness and caring approach to managing properties and relationships between landlords and tenants we are constantly looking to take on the lettings and management of quality […]

The topsy-turvy world of UK house price surveys seems to have produced another set of nonsense results as the monthly merry go round of conflicting reports continues to confuse home owners and buyers. In 24 hours, three surveys that track house price rise and falls have reported three entirely different sets of results on the […]

By Paul Shamplina, founder of @LandlordAction Since founding Landlord Action in 1999, we have encountered many tenants who have had to be evicted on more than one occasion. They are, what I like to call, Serial Bad Tenants. A Serial Bad Tenant goes from one property to another with no intention of paying any rent. […]

The Bank of England interest rate may hover around 0.5% for at least another two years because of a weak economy and overwhelming personal debt. Bank governor Mervyn King has hit out at interest rise hawks speculating that rates must soon go up in a speech to a finance committee at the European Parliament.

Who do you believe when a leading bank and an equally reputable building society come out with conflicting information about mortgages on the same day?

At last it looks like the buy to let market is beginning to show signs of recovery with mortgage lenders showing more interest in landlords than the first time buyer. This is great news for anyone wanting to make a living out of letting property, and with mortgages harder to come by for those wanting […]

Buy to let lenders say they are ready to open the floodgates to property investors looking to expand their portfolios rather than lend to first time buyers. Mortgage lenders see less risk and more profits in buy to let because landlords borrow less to buy the same home as other buyers and investment mortgage interest […]

EU rules that aim to tighten up mortgage lending may have an unforeseen impact on buy to let. The draft EU mortgage directive covers all mortgages for residential property and sees no difference between buying as a home or buy to let. The main issue for lenders is the directive makes them more responsible for […]