Tag: Buy to Let News

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Property investors target better yields

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th March 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Property investors are targeting high-yielding HMOs and commercial property in a switch away from buy to let, according to a...

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Let to buy is soaring, say lenders and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2012, 15 years ago | 0

The broken housing market is pushing more accidental landlords into the buy to let market, according to lenders and letting...

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HMO landlord let tenants live in a garden shed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

An HMO landlord was fined £4,000 for letting 16 tenants live in filthy and dangerous conditions – including in a...

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Buy to let property scam netted £450,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th February 2012, 15 years ago | 5

A sham property investment company that conned landlords out of £450,000 has been wound up by the Insolvency Service. Modo...

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Is Abu Qatada Britain’s worst buy to let tenant?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th February 2012, 15 years ago | 6

If you think you are housing the tenants from hell, spare a thought for the landlord beamed in to the...

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Property people get ready for new EPC rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2012, 15 years ago | 46

Landlords and letting agents must comply with a streamlined energy performance certificate scheme from April. The government has given the...

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Buy to let rents are still rising, say letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Rents are still rising – but at a much slower rate than a year ago, according to a study from...

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Council hit-team takes on hardcore rogue landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

A council hit-team is readying to prosecute rogue landlords who have dodged signing up to a selective licensing scheme. The...

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Lloyds tightens interest only rules for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 15 years ago | 4

Lloyds is the latest bank to tighten up interest-only lending criteria following the lead of Santander. Both banks are significantly...

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Business Booms for Letting Agents as Buy to Let Thrives

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

The thriving buy to let market is driving a letting agent boom as firms respond to increasing demand from tenants...

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Letting Agent Signs up 685 New Would-be Tenants Every Day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

About 500,000 new tenants have registered to rent buy to let homes over the past two years with just one...

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Cloud Over Builders may have Silver Lining for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Buy to let looks to continue to prosper as surveyors presented a drab picture of the construction industry. The government...

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Rents are Lower than Most Landlords Believe, Claims Belvoir

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 2

Too many self-interest groups are inflating the real rents buy to let landlords are picking up, claims letting specialist Belvoir....

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Chance to Have your Say About Regulating Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 15 years ago | 9

Time is running out for buy to let investors in Wales who wish to make their feelings known about proposals...

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Rents to be frozen from April 2012

Author: Mary Latham

6th February 2012, 15 years ago | 21

The National Landlords Association announced Friday – “We have just learned from the Department for Work and Pensions that LHA...

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City Landlords Turn Empty Bank Offices into Luxury Flats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Hard pressed landlords are looking at switching tough to let offices in the square mile to swish apartments for City...

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Peterborough is the Buy to Let Star of the East

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords in Peterborough are enjoying the best rental returns of anywhere – even the flying high yields in London, according...

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London Council Opens Letting Agency

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2nd February 2012, 15 years ago | 9

A London council has set up the first local authority full management lettings agency for rental homes in the capital....

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Oxford Landlord Fined Over Gas Safety

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30th January 2012, 15 years ago | 0

A landlord in Oxford has been fined £2,000 and over £2,000 in costs after repeatedly failing to obtain a gas...

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Landlords Need to be Wary of Fraudulent Tenants

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27th January 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Landlords have been warned of tenants fraudulently filling out tenancy agreements with fake names and barely paying rent. Let Insurance...

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Buy to Let Flood Risk Could Cost Landlords Billions

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd January 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Thousands of buy to let properties all over the country are at risk of becoming uninsurable and unmortgageable in a...