Tag: mortgage

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Landlords upset over paying £315,000 HMO fees to council

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Disgruntled landlords have paid out £315,000 fees in a year to comply with a council’s new house in multiple occupation...

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Buy to let underpins the housing market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let borrowing is underpinning the mortgage market as the Bank of England and lenders report a surge in...

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Buy to let mortgage market is stuck in a rut

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let mortgage availability is seemingly not improving despite the best efforts of property professionals to talk up the...

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Google launches new mortgage comparison site

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Google has quietly launched a trial run of a mortgage comparison site that includes buy to let mortgages. Links to...

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Has the credit crunch been good or bad for buy to let landlords?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th July 2011, 15 years ago | 12

I'd very much like to get your views on what's been good about the credit crunch and what's not been...

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Rental arrears down, say LSL

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rental arrears decreased for the second month in a row, according to LSL Property Services latest buy to let index....

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Strategies for coping with property pressure

Author: Vanessa Warwick

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

We love to keep things topical and relevant on Property Tribes, so to celebrate the recent Wimbledon Championships, I posted...

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Mortgage fraudster stole landlord IDs to con lenders

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A mortgage adviser who stole buy to let landlord’s identities to con lenders out of £3 million has started a...

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The Mortgage Works withdraws from Buy to let niche markets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

From today The Mortgage Works has announced three new Buy to let products, but have also tempered this news with...

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House prices stuck in a rut for up to 10 years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices are stuck in a rut and are unlikely to recover to anywhere near pre-credit crunch prices any time...

Mortgage Trust launches new Buy to let product range

Author: Neil Patterson

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

In a press release today Mortgage Trust launched its new Buy to let product range with a quote from John...

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Mortgage lending – the truth behind the statistics

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The number of home loans increased in May, according to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)....

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Rogue letting agent closes owing clients up to £500,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 19

Police are seeking a letting agent who has disappeared owing landlords and tenants hundreds of thousands in rents and deposits....

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Students are the most profitable tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Landlords seeking high yields need to focus their property businesses on students and young professionals. Students are clear leaders in...

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Do estate agents really know the price of a house?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

How a house is really valued is the subject of a seemingly never ending debate raging between economists, estate agents,...

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House Prices Up, Say Halifax

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The rollercoastering nature of the property market has been further confirmed by Halifax’s latest index. Over the past 12 months...

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SAFEagent closes on 1,000 member mark

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 1,000 letting agents have pledged to offer better protection to landlord and tenant monies by signing up to the...

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Should you pay off that buy to let mortgage?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Buy to let landlords often wonder if paying their mortgage off early is a good investment. The answer is it...

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Lenders Turn Up Buy to Let Heat on the EU

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

One of Britain’s largest landlord mortgage lenders has stepped up the pressure on Brussels not to regulate buy to let....

Quick guide to property surveys and valuations

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buying a home or investing in a letting property are important financial decisions, but many buyers fall in to the...