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Are you increasing your rents?
Landlords of buy to let property have been under increasing financial pressure in recent years. Probably the biggest challenge to running a profitable business has been the effective increase in taxation, following the decision to abandon tax relief on mortgage …
Protecting yourself from property fraud
Property fraud is one of the fastest growing crimes in the UK, according to press reports. The principle is alarmingly straight forward and simply described by the property website Just Do Property. It involves the effective theft of your property …
Landlord Insurance for Students
If you have teenagers yourself, you probably know that students tend to be in a class of their own â and, as tenants, this typically puts them in a special category as far as the landlord, in terms of his …
Landlords adapting to market changes
Contrary to many expectations, landlords and prospective landlords seem to be increasingly attracted to investment in the buy to let property market. According to a Property Investor Survey on the 7th of June 2017, the proportion of landlords looking to …
Landlords and cannabis farms
It might be something you never thought youâd have to worry about as a landlord, but there is growing evidence that some tenants are using private rented accommodation for the cultivation of cannabis. Time was, when criminals choose relatively large …
Making some MEES time
Does the acronym âMEESâ or the expanded âMinimum Energy Efficient Standardsâ mean anything to you? If theyâve both drawn a blank, then you may have cause for concern. MEES If youâre in the dark about the above, youâre far from …
Landlord legislation: your checklist
Whether you are a committed, âprofessionalâ landlord with specific objectives for a buy to let business, or a so-called âaccidentalâ landlord who happens to find themselves with a property to let, your activities are regulated by legislation â an increasingly …
What attracts tenants?
Knowing what attracts your tenants and understanding what they want from their rented accommodation, is an important part of being a landlord. The knowledge gives you vital market information, allowing you to optimise the rent you charge, the priority you …
CMP to be made compulsory for letting agents
There are changes on the way for the CMP (Client Money Protection) scheme. These will be beneficial to the industry at large and itâs important that landlords and letting agents understand them. The background Prior to 2007, disputes could arise …
What types of landlord insurance are there?
There is a general consensus that changes to tax rules and ever-increasing regulation have made life more difficult for landlords of let property in the past couple of years. Those difficulties have been made no easier by the growing trend …
