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Letting Business Or Charity
I often advise that if letting a property, family are the last people you should consider. Nothing breaks up a friendship, or affects family relations…
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Avoiding Landlord Stress
I am often surprised by some of the landlords I meet, who seem to go into the private letting business with little knowledge but high…
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London Rental Yield Map
If you want to be successful as a landlord in London, you’ve got to know where to find the best rental yields. A few…
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A taxing time for buy to let investors
With the Conservative party now secure in Government for another five years, there has never been a better time to get your tax affairs in…
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Post election – A win for landlords
‘The party’s over, it’s time to call it a day…’ goes the old song and that certainly seems to be the case for the Liberal…
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Property management is now easy
Victoria Whitlock, AKA ‘The Accidental Landlord’ explores the pros and cons of managing a property yourself vs using an agent. She considers a third way:…
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Universal Credit to be even more unpopular
Can Universal Credit become even more unpopular? Yes it can if a recent edition of ‘Inside Housing’ is to be believed. New regulations were enacted…
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Buy to let rents continue to rise
For investors in the rental market in the UK, one of the country’s hottest asset classes, the delicate balance between spending big in London for…
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Buy to let investment – Is it right for you?
The demand for rental properties across the UK has soared over the past 12 months, outstripping supply in all parts of the country. Whilst the…
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Universal Credit – starting near you soon
When we are children, it feels like Christmas never comes. Then when it arrives, we hope our joyful expectation is rewarded with presents, chocolates, good…
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Yet another Citizens Advice campaign
Is there no end to the damage that the Citizen's Advice Bureau will do to the private sector, despite the valuable work it does in…
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Pay off debt or buy to let
House prices are expected to rise to record levels in the coming year, exceeding their 2007 peak. Experts have suggested that the average cost of…
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A sympathetic landlord
The press are very clear that landlords are the stuff of fairy tales – generally the not very nice ones, the ogres, the trolls! We…
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Ultra Savvy Landlords Profit from Social Housing Market
At Orchard and Shipman, our nationwide property services company has a proposition that is satisfying more and more of today’s ‘Ultra-savvy’ Landlords and Investors by…
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Eviction costs soar
Landlords have always felt that the cost to get rid of the bad tenant was expensive, particularly when often allied to rent arrears and little…
