Tag: Landlords

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...

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, 12 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, 13 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, 13 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, 13 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...

London Housing Solutions Rips off Landlords and LHA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th March 2014, 13 years ago | 2

This report from Channel 4 investigates London Housing Solutions, a Rent to Rent company which is believed to have ripped...

Property118 Members vs West Bromwich Mortgage Company

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd March 2014, 13 years ago | 769

UPDATE – 31st March 2014 Since publishing this article our campaign has raised over £450,000 and legal action has now...

Immigration Minister resigns for employing an illegal immigrant

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2014, 13 years ago | 25

Mark Harper the Immigration Minister who took the Immigration Bill through Parliament in autumn 2013 has resigned for continuing to...

Do landlords have to pay class 2 National Insurance?

Author: Readers Question

4th February 2014, 13 years ago | 48

We have three properties which we let out via a letting agent. My husband works full time and I have...

Bank of Ireland Tracker Rate Legal Campaign Fundraising re-launched

Author: Mark Alexander

31st January 2014, 13 years ago | 0

The Bank of Ireland Tracker Rate Legal Campaign began in March 2013. History to date 100 affected BoI borrowers each paid...