Tag: Private Landlords

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Islamic Bank Offers Buy to Let Loans for First Time

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th December 2011, 15 years ago | 5

Islamic Bank of Britain has joined the throng as the latest lender to offer buy to let mortgages to landlords....

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New App to Help Contents Claims

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd December 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Readyclaim.co.uk are making it even more difficult for landlords to avoid adopting new technology as they launch their new online...

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Unwrap a £150 Christmas Gift from the Tax Man

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st December 2011, 15 years ago | 10

Every landlord can unwrap a generous £150 gift to himself courtesy of the taxman. Buried in tax law is a...

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Judge Strips HMO Landlord of £112,500 Illegal Rents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A landlord who defied planning laws to convert three houses in to houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) has been stripped...

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1 in 7 Homes a Buy to Let … and the Number’s Growing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of buy to let properties has increased by 756,000 homes since 2007, according to the latest government housing...

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Tenants at Risk in 1 Million Shoddy Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

One in three buy to let homes have major safety hazards putting tenants at risk, claims a government survey of...

Avoiding the Void

Author: Angus Ryan

28th November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Void periods are an occupational hazard of letting property and something that the vast majority of landlords will experience at...

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Landlord Forced Tenants to Share Cramped Rooms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlord Pavlos Chatzinopoulos was fined £2,515 for making tenants share with cramped rooms with tenants they did not know. Swindon...

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Letting Firm Probe Follows Student Complaints

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 40

A student landlord who charged a tenant £290 for cleaning two flies from a windowsill is under investigation by a...

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What if the PRS didn’t exist?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 5

By Guest Columnist Ben Reeve-Lewis I work for a council in London. I’m the landlord’s nemesis, the bogey man, a...

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Water Damage the Biggest Costs to Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Leaky pipes and sinks cost the UK’s landlords £2million a day and over 9 billion litres of water a year,...

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Don’t Forget Rent’s Not the Only Buy to Let Income

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Landlords might think that rent is the only income generated by their property business – but they may need to...

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Buy to Let Landlords Snubbed Under New Housing Deal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Government has launched a make-or-break housing strategy designed to boost the economy, create jobs and help people buy homes...

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Housing Strategy Key Points

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 3

The much awaited Government housing strategy was unveiled today with many seeing it not as the “radical and unashamedly ambitious...

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When is an AST not an AST?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Answer? – When it’s an Assured Tenancy. Rubbish joke I know. Most conversations I read on Property 118 and other...

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Buy to Let Landlords are Snapping Up More Big City Properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 25% of landlords have invested in more buy to let property this year, says the Association of Residential Letting...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 71

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

We now regularly produce more than 20 articles a week which is quite a lot to choose from and decide...

HMO Landlady Sacks Tenant

Author: HMOLandlady

14th November 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Continuing on the maintenance theme (somehow I think this could be ongoing!), I’m in the midst of a continuing dilemma:...

Private Landlords Will Need To Be Much More Vigilant if Proposals Go Ahead

Author: Mary Latham

11th November 2011, 15 years ago | 54

Tenants with anti social behaviour orders will be forced into the private rented sector if proposals to give housing associations...

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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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Tenants From Hell

Author: Mark Alexander

10th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Tenants from Hell is my latest amateur production to promote Property118.com and contains music from AC/DC used in the Iron...