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Students Don’t Mind the Quality but Opt for the Bandwidth

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Students rate good internet access as their top priority when looking for a home. A good online experience is better...

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Property118 Landlords eNewsletter – Issue 60

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

There’s not much to report about our Directory this week, safe to say that we are now four weeks into...

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Secret Home Sharers Can Run up Fines for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Sharing digs is booming in popularity as young home-seekers are failing to raise mortgages to buy properties of their own....

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Limited Options for Corporate Buy to Let Loans

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 3

As the largest buy to let lender pulls out of the corporate buy to let market, landlords with companies now...

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Loan Shark Landlord Fined for Demanding 5,600% APR

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A thug landlord who ruled his tenants with threats and intimidation lent them cash at more than 5,600% APR. Loan...

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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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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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Google launches new mortgage comparison site

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Google has quietly launched a trial run of a mortgage comparison site that includes buy to let mortgages. Links to...

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Cheryl Cole is the Nation’s top room-mate

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

If you’re thinking of your ideal celebrity tenant, would you think practically and pick a chef, handyman, cleaner or interior...

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The Mortgage Works withdraws from Buy to let niche markets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

From today The Mortgage Works has announced three new Buy to let products, but have also tempered this news with...

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Backpack firm offers £10,000 fee to property sourcers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors who can source backpacking youth hostels for a franchise holiday firm can pick up a £10,000 finders fee....

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Council takes over run down HMO property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A shared house landlord has lost control of his property after a council banned him from holding a house in...

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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...

What to do if your letting agent goes bust

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th June 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Landlords are regularly falling victim to rogue letting agents who suddenly shut up shop and take their money and run....

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Latest property horror stories

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Council spends £25,000 on repairing death-trap HMO A death-trap letting property seized by a council because the tenants lived in...

3 Dangerous Types of Tenant – Part 2: Illegal Subletting

Author: Paul Shamplina

22nd June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Over the last couple of years, the problem of unauthorised subletting has been growing. From last year alone, our instructions...

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Landlords forced out of housing benefit market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 5

As MPs debated the Welfare Reform Bill at report stage on Monday, 13 June, a survey by the National Landlords...

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Landlord conman had 32 false identities

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A property investor set up a web of false identities as ghost tenants at shared houses as part of a...

Property dream collapses in £3m debt nightmare

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

A student landlord’s dreams of property riches collapsed in to a nightmare of £3 million in debts as he broke...

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Buy to let landlord refitted dangerous gas supply

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Tenants’ lives were at risk when gas was reconnected to dangerous fittings after a safety engineer cut off the supply...