Tag: survey

Tenants Too Scared to Contact Their Landlord

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 4

A Shelter commissioned YouGov survey has found many of Generation Rent are being failed by their landlord. Shelter are worried...

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...

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Judges back valuers in buy to let negligence appeal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 13

Buy to let landlords have lost the chance to claim compensation from surveyors who overvalued an investment property following a...

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Bank of England is Googling housing market data

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The real worth of official housing market statistics has received another knock with the revelation that Bank of England researchers...

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Broadland Housing win eco-home money

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors believes more should follow Broadland Housing’s lead and look to the EU for funds...

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Home ownership beyond reach of ‘Generation Rent’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

High housing costs are hitting ‘Generation Rent’ hard, leaving them struggling to make ends meet. When utility bills, council tax...

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New app could take industry out of the dark ages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

New technology should be taking the property market forward but agents aren’t embracing it, an Imfuna Let survey has found....

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Two jailed for fraud of £50million

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A £50million mortgage fraud said to be ‘off the scale in terms of the sentencing guidelines for fraud cases’ by...

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Tax expert comments on Paragon Group landlord survey

Author: This article was written by guest author - Steve Sims

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Many landlords are handing unnecessary cash over to the tax man because they do not know what expenses they can...

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Landlords forced out of housing benefit market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 5

As MPs debated the Welfare Reform Bill at report stage on Monday, 13 June, a survey by the National Landlords...

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Landlords could do more to save money on taxes say Paragon

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Many landlords surveyed by Paragon could save money on tax, they’ve found not all were as efficient as they could...

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One in three Brits predict house prices will rise in next year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Data from the recent Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker reveals that a third of Britons expect house prices to rise...

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Crunch time for home hunters who can’t buy or rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Britain is careering towards a housing crunch as an increasing number of home hunters cannot afford to rent or buy...

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Our survey says – there are too many property surveys

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Yet another property index is churning out data in a crowded market – this time for buy to let from...

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Falling house prices expected to stabilise later this year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The Halifax House Price Index shows that house prices are continuing to fall slowly but signs of “moderate improvement” in...

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Buy to let landlords maintaining their portfolio size

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Just one in one hundred buy to let landlords think now is a good time to reduce their portfolios, according...

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Property prices finally seem to have hit the bottom

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices were up 0.8% in April – the first time prices have crept above zero in 2011 and the...

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66 percent of adults under 45 years old have given up any thought of buying their own property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The pattern of home ownership in Britain is undergoing a major upheaval with nearly two thirds of adults under 45...

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Buy to let love affair is still blossoming for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

It’s official – thousands more tenants are chasing fewer buy to lets as online property portal Rightmove reports searches for...

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Nationwide confirms lifeless housing market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property prices are unlikely to bounce back strongly regardless of how the economy improves over the rest of the year,...

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Should I be using an agent to let/manage my property?

Author: Paul Shamplina

27th May 2011, 15 years ago | 5

I regularly give talks all around the country at landlord forums and property events. At the beginning of a talk,...