Tag: Buy to let

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Students are the most profitable tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Landlords seeking high yields need to focus their property businesses on students and young professionals. Students are clear leaders in...

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Do estate agents really know the price of a house?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

How a house is really valued is the subject of a seemingly never ending debate raging between economists, estate agents,...

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The rise and rise of buy to let in figures

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The rise of buy to let as a major social phenomenon for households is reflected in the latest housing survey...

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Should you pay off that buy to let mortgage?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Buy to let landlords often wonder if paying their mortgage off early is a good investment. The answer is it...

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Lenders Turn Up Buy to Let Heat on the EU

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

One of Britain’s largest landlord mortgage lenders has stepped up the pressure on Brussels not to regulate buy to let....

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How Parents Can Avoid Student Digs Tax Traps

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buying a home for a son or daughter to live in while at university seems like a good plan for...

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More tenants in arrears as rents keep rising

Author: Neil Patterson

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 75,000 buy to let tenants are in rent arrears – a 13% increase on the same period last year,...

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Gang-of-five challenges EU buy to let regulation

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

A gang-of-five of mortgage industry trade bodies has joined forces to challenge European Union proposals for mortgages that include tougher...

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Property investors mount Inside Track legal challenge

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property investors are set to challenge collapsed property firms Inside Track and Instant Access Properties over misselling...

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Mortgage rates are at their cheapest since 1988

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Mortgage rates have tumbled to their cheapest since records started almost 25 years ago. Fixed and tracker rate mortgages are...

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One property tax for the rich…and another for the rest

Author: This article was written by guest author - Steve Sims

28th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Paying stamp duty and capital gains tax on a property sale is definitely a case of one law for the...

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Give buy to let more tax breaks, urges Paragon MD

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Buy to let movers and shakers have urged the government to consider the private residential landlords as businesses to promote...

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Judges back valuers in buy to let negligence appeal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 13

Buy to let landlords have lost the chance to claim compensation from surveyors who overvalued an investment property following a...

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New EPC laws postponed after legal time-out

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Upcoming changes to energy performance certificate rules for landlords have been put on hold because they have failed to clear...

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Buy to let garden share grows in popularity

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Relationships between students and green-fingered neighbours have blossomed after they dug deep to bring an unloved garden back to life....

BoE find buy to let still on the up

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Bank of England’s Agents’ summary of business conditions June findings have further emphasized the sluggish activity in the housing...

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Bridging lenders aim for £8 billion buy to let boost

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let lending is likely to increase by billions over the next three years as smaller, independent lenders come...

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EU ready to regulate buy to let mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 2

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is not commenting on news that a major battle over regulating buy to let mortgages...

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Rent prices still going up according to LSL

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17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rents are raging out of control in some areas of the country as tenants desperate for a home gazump their...

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New buy to let lender hits the market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Independent commercial finance and bridging specialist Crystal Mortgages has launched a new range of buy to let products for landlords....

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Tax expert comments on Paragon Group landlord survey

Author: This article was written by guest author - Steve Sims

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Many landlords are handing unnecessary cash over to the tax man because they do not know what expenses they can...