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Britain Set to Become a Nation of Home Renters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

More people will rent than buy their home in 15 years as attitudes to letting change, says Grainger, Britain’s biggest...

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Sellers Wipe £1.3 billion Off Home Values in Just a Month

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Frustrated sellers have wiped £1.3 billion off the value of homes on the market in just one month as they...

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Let Landlords Buy Homes with their Pensions, Urges CBI

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Business leaders are urging the government to make a major shift in pension rules to let retirement savers invest in...

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Buy to Let Rents Set to Surge by 20%

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Buy to let landlords will see properties generating a better return from rents than yields over the next five years,...

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Are your tenants fire safe?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

As winter kicks in, Let Insurance Services are impressing on landlords to have their fire safety measures in place. They...

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No More UK Interest Rate Fiddling as the Eurozone Burns

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Bank of England has left interest rates at the record low of 0.5% for yet another month. The result...

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Buy to Let Lending is Up – But It’s Not Booming

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The latest buy to let lending figures highlight a rise in landlord borrowing – but the statistics are shrouding an...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 70

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

In amongst all the headlines we have got some great news of our own this week and when you visit...

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Landlord Tax Cheats Targeted by HMRC Task Force

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords evading tax face a crack down from a new HM Revenue and Customs task force. Tax...

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Mortgage Lenders Paying Deposits on a Private Let????? Have you Gone Mad?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

8th November 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Most readers of my articles know about my work on landlord/tenant law issues. What many of you don’t know is...

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We Need More Trust Not More Legislation and Regulation

Author: Mary Latham

7th November 2011, 15 years ago | 3

There is a lot of talk these days about tenants needing security of tenure and organisations like Shelter would like...

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Buy to Let Mortgage Regulation is Logical, says the FSA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The UK will comply with proposals to regulate buy to let mortgages if the European Union decides to include the...

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Property Firm Lines up £2 billion Swoop on Buy to let flats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The geography of buy to let is due change as corporate investors move into the private letting market. The warning...

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Housebuilding Slumps to Lowest Level for 88 years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The building of new homes has slumped to the lowest level ever – running at half the number needed to...

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Landlords Reap Rewards as London Rents Rise 27%

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rents in London have soared by more than a quarter in two years, according to a firm of leading estate...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 69

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

We are delighted to introduce two new guest writers this week, HMO Landlady and Tulloch Priest. They have very kindly...

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Bank Pulls Plug on Britain’s Worst Landlord

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

A buy to let mortgage lender called in more than £1 million of loans when a landlord described as one...

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Economic Woes are Still Pushing House Prices Down

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The housing market is still falling – but the pace of the slide is slowing down, according to the latest...

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Maintenance Men – Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them!

Author: HMOLandlady

31st October 2011, 15 years ago | 10

A couple of weeks ago I started a discussion thread on Property Tribes about the trials and tribulations of dealing...

Why Do People Hate Landlords?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2011, 15 years ago | 5

I decided to write this article as a companion piece to Mary Latham’s recent article “I will not say sorry...

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Landlords Have Double the Choice of Buy to Let Mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of buy to let mortgages has more than doubled over the past three years – with more special...