Tag: Strategy

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HMO Planning Rules Confuse Student Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th September 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Councils are imposing arcane planning rules in an attempt to stop student landlords opening new shared houses. Landlords in Portsmouth...

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How Facebook Can Help Landlords & Letting Agents

Author: Mark Alexander

16th September 2011, 15 years ago | 2

I’ve heard reports of 30 prospective tenants applying for every property on landlords and lettings agents books. What do they...

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Keep it Simple – Take Your First Steps in Property by Recycling Your Deposit

Author: Your Property Network

9th September 2011, 15 years ago | 5

At Your Property Network we are often approached by first time property investors who are confused about the best way...

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Marketing UK Property Events & Increasing Attendee Numbers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th September 2011, 15 years ago | 7

Over 300,000 people and businesses you want to promote your event to receive our eNewsletters every week. Having organised, promoted...

Property Auction Due Diligence & How Much To Bid

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th September 2011, 15 years ago | 4

I have purchased some of my best property deals at auctions but it is not for the faint hearted. When...

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Property118 Landlords eNewsletter – Issue 60

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

There’s not much to report about our Directory this week, safe to say that we are now four weeks into...

Property118 Landlords eNewsletter – Issue 59

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

We are continuing to work on improving our Directory speed and ease of use prior to uploading over 200,000 businesses...

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Buy to Let Clubs Blamed for Ripping Off Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property clubs that rip off landlords are blamed for rising rental home repossessions. The clubs ran relentless...

How Free Tenant Referencing Businesses Are Influencing Landlords Strategies

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th August 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Mark Alexander, Property118 founder and landlord since 1989 is updating his lettings strategy to utilise two free tenant referencing services...

Green Deal Firm to Pay Agents £1,000 for Landlord Leads

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Landlords who carry out work to upgrade buy to let properties under the Green Deal could be paying out up...

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London’s calling corporate investors in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

London buy to let landlords may soon have to fight toe-to-toe with institutional investors for prime residential property. Soaring rents...

Landlords lock pets out of the buy to let boom

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th July 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Pets are suffering from a raw deal in the buy to let boom as landlords refuse to allow them to...

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SCAM ALERT – please tell your tenants and landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd July 2011, 15 years ago | 5

Thank you to Susanne, a landlord known to us via the Property tribes forum, for sharing the following story with...

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Spam attacks and hacking Grrrr – can’t you tell the kids are on holiday?

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Earlier this week I wrote a Blog about my my Twitter account getting hacked. Changing the password fixed it. Since...

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Using social media to reduce rental voids

Author: Neil Patterson

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

In this video blog Mark Alexander, buy to let landlord and founder of Property118.com explains how he uses Social Media...

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Aggressive Twitter virus wreaks havoc – what to do

Author: Mark Alexander

20th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The virus comes in the form of a Twitter Direct Message from somebody you know  and says “your not going...

The Importance of Testimonials (promotional article)

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

If you owned a hotel you would want to have lots of excellent reviews on Trip Advisor wouldn’t you? That’s...

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Property investors mount Inside Track legal challenge

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property investors are set to challenge collapsed property firms Inside Track and Instant Access Properties over misselling...

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What does 50 percent BMV mean to you?

Author: Mark Alexander

25th June 2011, 15 years ago | 9

Something is only worth what the highest bidder is prepared to pay. If you see something in the sales marked...

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Building bonanza sparked by plan for 100,000 homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Housing minister Grant Shapps has signalled a new homes building bonanza by kicking off plans to hand over thousands of...

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Directors banned for £3 million landbanking con

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Three landbanking scammers were disqualified as directors after they sold worthless farm plots at hugely inflated prices with the fake...