Two Leeds landlords were fined for failing to comply with house in multiple occupation (HMO) regulations. Brian Davison, of Horsforth, was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,829, for failing to licence his property in Burley.

An introductory article written by Paul Shamplina, founder of Landlord Action, explaining how he got in to the business of helping landlords with bad tenants. This is Paul’s first article in an eBook series. A list of future articles coming soon is featurd below.

Buy to let mortgage brokers are split on the performance of the sector since the start of the year – with one half claiming business is booming while the rest report no change.

Guest Blog provided by Steve Sims, author of ‘Understanding And Paying Less Property Tax For Dummies’. Steve and his wife Amanda also have a boutique accountancy business which  specialises in providing taxation advice and accountancy services for property investors.

More stubborn sellers with luxury homes who refuse to drop their house prices are becoming reluctant landlords, according to letting agents. Their reluctance to sell is pushing up the average value of a buy to let property.

Buy to let landlord Michael Parkinson was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife after their property dream soured under financial pressures. Jennifer Parkinson, 65, denies murdering her 63-year-old husband after a row at their home in Gosport, Hampshire.

This is the last in this series of 10 articles written by specialist landlord & tenant solicitor Tessa Shepperson, founder of the online Landlord Law Service.

Help is at hand for landlords struggling to claim money through the deposit protection schemes. A deposit protection adjudicator has set up an online service to help landlords avoid the common pitfalls and successfully claim the money they are owed.

A range of new buy to let mortgages is available from leading lender The Mortgage Works from April 13. The Mortgage Works (TMW) – the specialist buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide Building Society – is among the UK’s largest lenders to residential property investors.

The housing market is firmly stuck in the doldrums with little hope of easing in the near future, according to the latest data – with London standing out as the only high spot. Estate agents say house prices and sales remained static in March. While the Communities and Local Government Department (CLG) released figures for […]

Mark Alexander, founder of Property118.com, interviews Jason Howard of Insight Fininacial Associates on Asset and Legacy protection for property investors. Something all landlords should consider within their financial planning strategy. Please contact us for more details.

Property investors could profit from government plans to encourage development of empty offices in to new housing. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced proposals to remove planning restrictions to stimulate the developments – and the move is a good fit with councils seeking to dilute concentrations of shared houses in residential areas.

A High court judge has thrown out a challenge to the government’s decision to review house in multiple occupation planning rules. Four councils led by Milton Keynes argued at the High Court, London, that housing minister Grant Shapps’ decision to overturn planning rules for house in multiple occupation (HMOs) did not give planners enough time […]

In a recent survey of our database of over 100,000 landlords, 78% of respondents said they would trust a Peer to Peer recommendation over an advertisement or a listing on Google or Yell.com

Buy to let borrowers and property investors can choose from almost 300 mortgage packages – more than double the number available a year ago. Competition between banks and building societies has hotted up as more lenders joined the market, and is set to intensify as more prepare to start lending in the coming months.

Mortgage lending thawed in February after a drab couple of months affected by the bad weather. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) figures were upbeat all round for first time buyers, movers and remortgages.

Guest Blog from Lorna Rose of TenantID For some reason mortgage defaults increased during the first 3 months of this year. I’m not an economist, but I suspect the current financial climate may have had something to do with it.

This is the ninth in a series of 10 articles written by specialist landlord & tenant solicitor Tessa Shepperson, founder of the online Landlord Law Service. What do you do if your tenant won’t leave when their section 21 notice expires? As you no doubt know, section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 is the […]

Buy to let mortgage lenders are barring legal advisors who have not signed up to the new Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) from acting for them. More than 700 legal firms have joined the CQS scheme – and mortgage lenders are making membership a condition of acting for them for every buy to let purchase.

  Homeless charity Shelter is calling for the scrapping of council tax discounts on second homes and property that stands empty. A new study looking at ways to maximise the use of existing housing reckons ending the discount would raise £42 million a year that councils and the government could divert to improving housing supply.  […]

Paul Shamplina has over twenty years experience in the legal field, originally working as a clerk, private investigator, debt collector and certified bailiff. As co-founder and director of Landlord Action, the market leaders and longest serving independent company specialising in fixed-fee tenant eviction and debt recovery, he has acquired a reputation as the landlord’s friend. […]