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Landlord legislation: your checklist
Whether you are a committed, “professional” landlord with specific objectives for a buy to let business, or a so-called “accidental” landlord who happens to find themselves with a property to let, your activities are regulated by legislation – 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 it’s 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 …
Do you need building insurance for landlords?
If you let a property, you may be counting the pennies, because everything you spend on the property may come out of the rent you are collecting. You may already be paying a managing agent, a mortgage and a handyman …
Scrapping of agent’s fees may push up rents
The government’s relatively recent proposal to abolish the right of property agencies to charge tenants fees for their services, has led to some consternation in the letting industry. The backdrop Certainly this was a populist move in terms of public …
Is it worth making a small claim?
If you are a landlord, you almost certainly want to protect your buy to let investment with the appropriate level of insurance. The economics of running a successful buy to let business are on a fine edge, however, and you …
Changes to the Green Tax
Buy to let landlords seem to be have been hit left, right and centre in the past year or so. Last year, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer phased in the removal of tax relief on interest paid for buy …
Landlord insurance tips
Some landlords are fully committed buy to let investors with a view to making their living from the business. Others might have found themselves to be landlords almost by accident, thanks to a single property they might have inherited or …
Let property news round up
Latest statistics To judge by the number and value of mortgages that continue to be granted, the purchase of buy to let property continues to ride high. Statistics published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), for example, show that …
