Guest Blog provided by Steve Sims, author of “Understanding And Paying Less Property Tax For Dummies”.   Little time is left for tax planning as the end of the tax year is nearly upon us – so here are some points to consider before it’s too late from hot topics that have dominated the financial news:

A business claiming to be the UK’s first “truly national” online property auction service for UK property has just been launched. Mark Alexander, founder of Property118.com recently had an exclusive interview with Paul Fieldson, Managing Director of bidonmyhouse, to see if this online property auction really will live up to its aim of ‘revolutionising the […]

Landlord lobbyists have launched an online toolkit to help property investors protest against councils proposing to take on extra powers to control shared homes. The Residential Landlords Association has put together information about the 15 councils bidding to take on the extra powers so landlords can mount a concerted effort against the proposals.

Tenants are paying an average £684 per month rent in February – up 3.9% on a year ago but no real change from last month.

Part 2 of a 2 part series.  Read part one here With over 23,500 deposit disputes last year year – a figure that is set to increase as tenants become more aware of their rights – it has never been more important to have a professional (and independent) inventory.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.  If we had known how every successive generation was going to hold us up to ridicule we would not have dressed like that in the 1970’s, we would not have paid good money for Mullet haircuts in the 1980’s and we certainly would never have taken out an endowment mortgage.

Thank you to Chris Birdsall of TenantID for providing this Guest Blog which follows up nicely our report on 24th February entitled “Judges block eviction that mars tenants Human Rights”

The housing market has perked up as estate agents report more homes for sale and a jump in the number of hopeful buyers. The National Association of Estate Agent’s (NAEA) latest market survey shows the number of homes for sale in February was 25% up on the same period last year. Estate agents also revealed […]

Plans by HM Revenue and Customs to inspect landlord and small business financial records in a bid to spot cheats are under fire from tax experts. HMRC wants to check out 50,000 landlords and businesses annually, starting from later this year. Part of the £900 million extra funding has gone towards recruiting and training more […]

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is warning all landlords and management companies to check each rental property thoroughly for signs of common damage, which can often be missed at check out, costing landlords hundreds of pounds.

Buy to let landlords looking for the best and worst places for investing in two-bedroom homes to rent have had all the numbers crunched for them by a leading property portal.

Rogue letting agents that swindle landlords and tenants out of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year have come under fire from the renting industry’s consumer champion.

This is the sixth in a series of 10 articles written by specialist landlord & tenant solicitor Tessa Shepperson, founder of the online Landlord Law Service. How to increase rent the proper way As we all know, the price of things keeps going up and the value of money keeps going down.  You will therefore […]

Robin Pilley invests into HMO’s in the Haverhill area and regularly achieves up to 16% yields, he is also a Director of CXG Property Services, which is a Letting Agents and Property Sourcing Company.  As these yields are so good we’ve asked Robin to share his story in a four part series.  This is the […]

The pent up demand for buying and letting homes is reflected in some new figures that act as barometers for the housing market.

Householders can scoop their own Olympic gold by renting out rooms tax-free to visitors to the 2012 London games.

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Cannabis farming is a growing menace for landlords as police seized a record number of plants in raids mainly on buy to let homes.

England faces a shortage of up to 750,000 homes by 2025 according to an analysis of government projections by think-tank the Insitute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

In this You Tube video interview between Vanessa Warwick from Property Tribes and Paul Spriggins of Tingdene this unique business model is explained. Paul Spriggines is a personal friend of mine and we will be visiting the Property Investor Show at Excel, Docklands, London together on Friday 18th March.  The finance is none status, non-recourse, […]

Time is running out for celebrities who are trying to sell their £1 million homes before the stamp duty curtain comes down at the end of the month.