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Furniture Can Make the Difference in Your Rental Property
As the election draws near, debates and interviews with politicians all become part of the furniture, but what does it mean to the buy to…
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Buy to Let Property Renting is a Business
Many landlords are employed in business or professions; private renting is an additional income, perhaps to provide an income in older age, so I am…
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Don’t Let Bed Bugs Bite Your Buy to Let Profits
Mention bed bugs and it feels like a step into the past; Families living in over-crowded accommodation, children crowded into one, possibly urine stained and…
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More Competition for the Buy to Let Private Landlord
The private landlord has a hard time; whilst many are aware that tenants will seek private rented properties because of better standards, sometimes better areas,…
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Be Ready for the Buy to Let Olympics
The TV screens have been full of the Winter Olympics, the sports being televised seeming more death-defying than in the Summer Olympics, which will follow…
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New PRA Guidelines for Portfolio Landlords
The new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) guidelines for portfolio landlords came into operation on 30 September. Here we look at how they will affect landlords….
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Why buy-to-let is an outstanding wealth-management and retirement income strategy
The concern about adequate retirement income is one of the most important financial issues for those aged 30-50. Today they face a ‘triple whammy’: Pensions…
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Airbnb’s Direct Impact on the Private Rental Sector
When tax changes were announced last year, landlords in the private rental sector were quick to say they would withdraw from the sector. This is…
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3 ways economies of scale makes property investment rewarding again
Buy-to-let landlords have had a pretty rough time of it recently, what with the hike in Stamp Duty, Article 4 legislation and punishing changes to…
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Private Rental Investment Growing – Despite The Government
Despite what is a clear favouring of home ownership as the Governments’ tenure of choice, buy to let investment and the private sector is growing…
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A New Housing Minister
The country waited with baited breath whilst our new Prime Minister formed her cabinet, and none more so than private sector landlords, wondering whether the…
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Fewer Properties To Rent
A recent copy of the Metro gave as a headline ‘Fewer Homes up for rent after duty rise’. This is hardly a surprise to anyone…
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Long Live Buy to Let
So the media would have you believe that ‘buy to let’ is dead… That the government has made ‘buy to let’ profit impossible..? Utter rubbish!…
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April 1st – Are You Ready
Landlords need to be ready as 1st April sees the imposition of Stamp Duty Land Tax. This means that landlords buying further buy to let…
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How Naughty Landlords Try To Avoid Tax
HMRC has for a while now been targeting landlords who try to avoid paying tax by failing to declare their lettings income properly. While some…