Tag: Buy to let

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Landlord stabbed in the head 5 times by drug dealer takes action @LRSreferencing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th August 2011, 15 years ago | 8

Thank you to Vanessa Warwick and Nick Tadd of the Property Tribes forum for sharing this video interview. In this...

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UK Negative Equity Blackspots Revealed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New research from mortgage lenders reveals negative equity black spots across the UK. Around 827,000 homes were in negative equity...

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Rents are Still Rising According to Homelet

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rents are still trickling up, according to Homelet’s latest Rental Index for July as the average rent rose to £767...

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Heat is on Improving Cold Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlords are under fire for failing to keep buy to let homes warm enough as a tenant’s rights protest coalition...

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Private Landlords Wary of Rate Rises

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Official bank rates will stay at 0.5% after the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee voted for no change for...

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Yorkshire Launches Limited Buy to Let Lending

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Yorkshire Building Society is taking a tentative step in to buy to let lending with a limited range of mortgages...

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Seven Tenants Chasing Each Home for Rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Up to seven new tenants are competing to rent each home- and the gap between available properties and the number...

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London’s calling corporate investors in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

London buy to let landlords may soon have to fight toe-to-toe with institutional investors for prime residential property. Soaring rents...

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Peace in the war between landlords and tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Forget the odd moans and gripes between those traditional enemies landlords and tenants – the majority get on just fine....

Property fraudsters to pay £200,000 or face longer in jail

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Crooked property investors who lied on mortgage applications to finance 19 buy to let homes have to pay back £200,000...

Paragon lends £65.7 million to buy to let investors

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let mortgage specialist Paragon has announced completing new lending of £65.7 million for the second quarter of 2011....

Landlords lock pets out of the buy to let boom

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th July 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Pets are suffering from a raw deal in the buy to let boom as landlords refuse to allow them to...

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What happens next to house prices and mortgages?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

So the property market is stuck in a rut and prices and mortgage lending bottom out, according to the latest...

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Revealed – UK cities with the most overpriced homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Oxford homes are the most overpriced in the country, according to an online survey. Two thirds of people think homes...

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SCAM ALERT – please tell your tenants and landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd July 2011, 15 years ago | 5

Thank you to Susanne, a landlord known to us via the Property tribes forum, for sharing the following story with...

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Council wants to invest taxpayer cash in buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Councillors want to dabble in property investment by spending millions on purchasing ‘substandard’ buy to let homes. The plan is...

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Buy to let lenders warn of cash grab for missed payments

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlords should separate their savings and current accounts from banks where they hold buy to let mortgages, loans or credit...

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Using social media to reduce rental voids

Author: Neil Patterson

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

In this video blog Mark Alexander, buy to let landlord and founder of Property118.com explains how he uses Social Media...

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Landlords upset over paying £315,000 HMO fees to council

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Disgruntled landlords have paid out £315,000 fees in a year to comply with a council’s new house in multiple occupation...

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Buy to let underpins the housing market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let borrowing is underpinning the mortgage market as the Bank of England and lenders report a surge in...

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Carpeting and flooring in your buy to let

Author: Ally Interiors

20th July 2011, 15 years ago | 5

It’s all too easy to put down the cheapest flooring possible when furnishing a rental property. But unless you want...