Tag: Buy to let

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Buy to let bargains for sale as sellers cut prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Investment opportunities for buy to let landlords look good as mortgage availability increases and asking prices for homes continue to...

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Mortgage availability is as good as it gets for a while say lenders

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Mortgage lending seems to have bottomed out in 2010 after plunging from £362 billion at the top of the market...

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Revealed – how property was crippled by the recession

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

New figures from the government show how the banking crisis and recession crippled the housing market. In 2008/09 – the...

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Buy to let market expanded by 7% in 2010

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

The truth is finally out about how the buy to let market performed in 2010 as the Council of Mortgage...

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Homes sales have slowed again, say estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Home sales slipped to the lowest level for 18 months as estate agents reported a poor month of trading. Fewer...

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Tax green light for energy efficient landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords who want to demonstrate their green credentials can save tax and keep their tenants happy while...

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BBC has a cheap bash at landlords yet again!

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

The BBC has launched another story about substandard buy to let homes and ‘rogue landlords’ – but just who is...

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Buy to let mortgage deals hot up for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

New lenders are eyeing buy-to-let as others are shaping up their deals to give landlords a wider choice of rates...

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85% LTV buy to let is back!

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 16 years ago | 2

Somebody had to be first to do it but who would have expected it to be Kensington Mortgages?

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Have you got what it takes to be a landlord?

Author: Tessa Shepperson

6th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Have you got what it takes to be a landlord? Often people seem to think that being a landlord  is...

Switching on to finding tenants with a phone app

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Looking for a home to rent online from home or the office is easy – but tracking down properties is...

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How I choose my tenants

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 16 years ago | 3

Please remember that my properties are all mid range to upper end of the market.  My typical tenant profile is...

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How I minimise property management issues

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 16 years ago | 3

Please remember that my properties are all mid range to upper end of market properties aimed at the professional tenants...

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How I minimise rental voids

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 16 years ago | 6

A one month rental void accounts for 8.33% of your annual rental income.  For many landlords this is the difference...

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Property investors warned against NMD scammers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2011, 16 years ago | 1

Fraud investigators are warning property club investors against scammers that are offering bogus below-market-value deals with NMD (No Money Down)...

Guest Blog – Landlords … more despised than Katie Price?

Author: Vanessa Warwick

2nd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

  This article was written by Vanessa Warwick @4_Walls on The Property Tribes forum. 

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Landlords refuse to cut rents for benefit tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords are on a collision course with the government as most are determined to defy pleas to...

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Don’t make renting a home a life sentence, say under 30’s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

The shameful state of Britain’s housing market is revealed in a new poll of attitudes to renting carried out by...

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Mapping crime hot spots could affect rents and house prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords could see their rents and property prices plunge if they are listed in a crime black...

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Solar panel tax loophole is a bright idea for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st February 2011, 16 years ago | 6

Some landlords have had the bright idea of making money from their tenants by renting their roofs  to solar energy...

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Top cop’s buy to let was a cannabis factory

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

A red-faced top cop at Scotland Yard rented out his former home to a gang of drug dealers who set...