Tag: Landlords

The Autumn Statement – property sector reacts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2022, 3 years ago | 2

The much-anticipated Autumn Statement has seen the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivering a mixed bag of tax rises...

Property damage and cleaning top tenancy deposit disputes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2022, 3 years ago | 4

More than half of tenancy deposit disputes during the last year concerned property damage and cleaning, The Deposit Protection Service...

1 in 5 landlords are looking to reduce portfolios

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2022, 3 years ago | 2

Landlords are making big adjustments to their portfolios to meet the cost-of-living crisis, research reveals. According to Handelsbanken, nearly three...

£82.7bn worth of rental properties occupied by fraudsters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2022, 3 years ago | 1

The rental sector has long been a leading target for fraudsters, criminals and money launderers with previous research estimating that...

Propertymark slams extension to no-fault notice periods in Wales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 3 years ago | 0

All new tenancies in Wales from 1 December will have a statutory six-month no-fault notice period, while existing tenancies that...

Mayor of London calls for emergency private renting summit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 3 years ago | 21

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called for an emergency private renting summit – but landlords aren’t invited. He...

Why do we value Asylum Seekers more than British homeless?

Author: Readers Question

14th November 2022, 3 years ago | 29

Hello, This is another of those strange anomalies/priorities which make little sense. We pick up thousands of asylum seekers in...

HMRC is targeting residential landlords with ‘nudge letters’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 3 years ago | 20

HMRC is targeting residential landlords in its latest ‘nudge campaign’ that it suspects are not declaring their full rental income,...

Legislation is destroying our business and we might as well sell up. My question is – How??

Author: Readers Question

8th November 2022, 3 years ago | 14

Hello, No landlord can be immune to the ever increasing attacks, not only on the buy to let business in...

More than a quarter of landlords want to sell – claim

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th November 2022, 3 years ago | 1

More than a quarter of landlords are planning to sell their rental properties because of the current buy to let...

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Landlords selling up account for 16% of property sales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th November 2022, 3 years ago | 6

As fed-up landlords brace for further tax rises and soaring mortgage rates, it has been revealed that the number of...

Government plots raid on landlords to plug £50bn black hole

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th November 2022, 3 years ago | 47

The government will target landlords in a bid to plug a £50bn hole in the country’s finances, reports reveal. The...

The Bank of England base rate rise – industry reacts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd November 2022, 3 years ago | 1

Reaction from the worlds of property and finance was swift after the Bank of England announced that its base rate...

Increased mortgage stress tests will push up rents, MPs told

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd November 2022, 3 years ago | 3

Not only will rents rise but tenants will find it more difficult to find homes over the next year or...

The slightly unusual dilemma of a Croydon landlord

Author: Readers Question

18th July 2018, 8 years ago | 23

This is our favourite and most popular ‘Readers Question’ to date, hence we re-bublish it from time to time. Dear...

FOS rule West Brom Tracker Rate Hike is fair

Author: Mark Alexander

16th November 2014, 11 years ago | 46

The FOS (Financial Ombudsman Service) have done it again!  In the past the FOS have controversially agreed that rate hikes...

The Social Housing crisis and Landlords

Author: Paul Shamplina

23rd April 2014, 12 years ago | 10

In May last year I did a TV programme called The One Show, where they filmed me serving a section...

Safety laws should be applied to ALL property owners

Author: Mark Alexander

2nd April 2014, 12 years ago | 10

I am in favour of new regulations which could help to save lives but I don’t understand why only the...

East Midlands Property Owners Expo – Date for your Diary

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th March 2014, 12 years ago | 0

East Midlands Property Owners is a professional residential landlords association but also a not-for-profit organisation. Its members own somewhere in...

Message from Anthony Wilson of Ashley Wilson Solicitors LLP

Author: Anthony Wilson

13th March 2014, 12 years ago | 0

My name is Tony Wilson. I have today committed £15,000.00 to the fund to enable Mark Alexander and Mark Smith...