Sam Collett is a property developer, owner of Gorgeous Homes, an avid property auction buyer and Winner of the Primelocation.com Blog Awards 2010-11.  In this article Sam shares her top tips on buying property at auction.

Tenants picking up housing allowances to pay their rents should have the choice to pay their landlords direct, says the Residential Landlords Association.

Around 750,000 taxpayers face a shock at the end of the month when they are automatically upgraded to the higher rate tax bracket without earning any more money.

Letting agents are closing ranks against rogue firms that fail to safeguard money handed over by landlords and tenants with a new kitemark scheme.

Ipswich Property Network Meeting Monday 11th April 2011 – 18:30 – 22:00 Ipswich Holiday Inn, London Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UA Guest speakers include our very own Mark Alexander, founder of Property118.com Click here for more details and to book your place.

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

Robin Pilley invests into HMO’s (Houses in Multiple Occupation) 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. This is the second article in a series of four.

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>Private renters expect to hand over more money every month to their buy to let landlords as they continue to struggle to buy homes of their own.

Fraud investigators are cracking down on brokers falsifying mortgage applications. More than 3,500 fraudulent mortgage cases were picked up by CIFAS, the UK’s fraud prevention agency last year.

The following is an extract from my 1,000th discussion on Property Tribes (my favourite property forum). I asked the members 5 questions about their property investment strategies and then went on to answer the same questions myself, after reading what others do.

The Land Registry has paid out around £5 million in compensation to property fraud victims who had their identities stolen from documents published on the government agency’s web site.

Plans to slash housing benefit face a court challenge because they are unfair to disadvantaged families with children. The Child Poverty Action Group has announced they are launching action to take the government to the High Court for a judicial review of benefit changes that take effect from April 1.

This is the latest in our collection of our favourite Motivational and Inspirational videos from You Tube, ENJOY. Please let us know if you’ve seen one that you think we should add.

A landlord who failed to safety check and look after gas appliances in a buy to let house rented to a tenant has to pay £1,400 fines and costs. Property investor Michael Smith was reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by his tenant for failing to provide a valid gas safety certificate.

Renting a shed with a bed to illegal immigrants is the latest money making idea from crooked landlords. Slough Council has uncovered 2,500 garden sheds, outhouses and lean-to’s converted in to squalid living space in a continuing battle against the problem.

In this promotional video Mark Alexander explains to Vanessa Warwick of PT TV why he will be attending this years Property Investor Show at Excel, London on Friday 18th March 2011. FREE TICKETS to the event can be downloaded HERE

  Will you be there? Mark Alexander will be on the speakers panel of “The Big Fat Landlord Debate” at 13:30. Full details of the show can be found here.

I came across this web-site recently (http://www.landlordzone.co.uk) and I thought it looked very professional.  Can anybody who’s used it give me some feedback on it, positive or negative please, especially paying advertisers, do you get a return on your investment?  

>Buy to let rents are rising fast as more tenants chase fewer properties, say letting agents.  They returned the highest positive rating ever in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors residential lettings survey as four out of 10 letting agents confirmed rents continued to increase.

The cost of renting a home is more expensive than buying in 8 out of 10 towns and cities, according to online property portal Zoopla.