Tag: Housing Association

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Chancellor urged to boost tax relief for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Chancellor George Osborne is coming under more pressure from landlord and letting agent lobbies to ease buy to let tax...

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Eastern Landlords Association MARCH 2012 NEWSLETTER

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Deposits Three cheers for competition. A few weeks ago TDS, The Dispute Service, announced Deposit Guard, which at launch undercut...

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Let to buy is soaring, say lenders and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2012, 14 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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Fizzy hopes bubbly buy to let profits will boost social housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd February 2012, 14 years ago | 3

A cash-rich housing association is looking to buy to let to generate funds for social housing. Thames Valley Housing Association...

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Property is a Pension for 80% of Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Eight out of 10 landlords plan to supplement their pension income from letting property, according to the latest research by...

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Chance to Have your Say About Regulating Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th February 2012, 14 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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Housing Minister urges OAPs to down-size their homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th February 2012, 14 years ago | 2

The UK Government is backing plans to encourage elderly homeowners to down-size to smaller properties. The move will enable councils...

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Rents to be frozen from April 2012

Author: Mary Latham

6th February 2012, 14 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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Communal Areas of Apartments

Author: Ally Interiors

1st February 2012, 14 years ago | 1

We have all seen the dreaded coir carpet that has shrunk around the edges in trendy apartment blocks. The concrete...

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HMO licence fees up 650 percent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th January 2012, 14 years ago | 6

In the last year it has become very clear that many Local Authorities are looking very carefully at Private Sector...

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Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions – January 2012

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th January 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The Bank of England has released the Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions for January 2012, calling the market ‘subdued’. They...

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Here’s a radical idea – Stop Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Author: Mary Latham

13th January 2012, 14 years ago | 32

I am writing this after reading an article with the opening line “A Labour MP says that every MP he...

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Article 4 Directions – a Southampton Perspective

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Article 4 Directions for managing HMOs will only work if they are accompanied by good planning policies – a Southampton...

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Frustrated Sellers Forced to Consider Let-to-Move

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th January 2012, 14 years ago | 11

Frustrated sellers are turning into reluctant landlords as the stagnating housing market in some areas has driven buyers away. Around...

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What does the Future Hold for Buy to Let?

Author: Angus Ryan

19th December 2011, 14 years ago | 4

Why Property? Over the last 30 years UK property prices have achieved average compound growth of approximately 10% each year...

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The GOOD Landlords Campaign

Author: Mark Alexander

13th December 2011, 14 years ago | 141

Please leave a comment below if you think “The GOOD Landlords Campaign” is a good idea. One of my employees...

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Rip Off Letting Agents Prey on Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th December 2011, 14 years ago | 6

Letting agents are ripping off tenants with high fees that are not revealed until they come to let a home,...

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1 in 7 Homes a Buy to Let … and the Number’s Growing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

The number of buy to let properties has increased by 756,000 homes since 2007, according to the latest government housing...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 76

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

The latest news and views from the property market and private rented sector. This edition also includes guest articles from...

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Tenants at Risk in 1 Million Shoddy Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 2

One in three buy to let homes have major safety hazards putting tenants at risk, claims a government survey of...