Tag: Landlords

Lender offers landlords £50m to help enhance energy efficiency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

Buy-to-let landlords who want to improve the sustainability of their investment properties can access a lending fund with lower mortgage...

Commercial agents and landlords warned of energy efficiency regulation changes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2022, 4 years ago | 19

Propertymark is warning commercial letting agents and landlords about a change in energy efficiency regulations for business buildings. They say...

Funding help is needed to make homes more energy efficient

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

Only cash help to make homes and businesses energy efficient will enable the government to meet a pledge set out...

UK house prices set to fall for the next two years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

House prices in the UK are predicted to fall for the next two years before they will increase again, the...

Majority of property investors looking to invest next year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

More than 50% of property investors are looking to further expand their portfolio in 2023 – despite the uncertainty of...

Landlords! We have lost the moral high ground and it’s not coming back

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th November 2022, 4 years ago | 22

While landlords have never been flavour of the month, we have lost the moral high ground over standards in private...

The Autumn Statement – property sector reacts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2022, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 years ago | 20

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

FAO Shelter – This is not a love note from The Landlord Crusader

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2022, 4 years ago | 56

It’s a good job I was sitting down when I read a striking story on Property118 this week because it...

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

Author: Readers Question

8th November 2022, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 years ago | 3

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