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Shawbrook Bank MD Discusses Restrictions On Finance Cost Relief

Shawbrook Bank MD Discusses Restrictions On Finance Cost Relief...

In this 97 second video, Shawbrook Bank Managing Director Stephen Johnson discusses buy-to-let tax changes and their potential impact. His key message is that if you do nothing your cashflow could be particularly...

Over a quarter of tenants haven’t mentioned their pets

Over a quarter of tenants haven’t mentioned their pets...

Pet lovers often feel they have to hide their animals from their landlords in order to secure accommodation, a new survey has found. The research revealed that 27% of UK renters with pets DID NOT notify...

Fined £173,000 for renting an illegally converted garage

Fined £173,000 for renting an illegally converted garage...

Amir Golesorkhi turned his garage into two small, substandard flats and had been letting them out to tenants for seven years while he was living in the main house with his wife in Colindale, North London.

National Landlord Investment Show sparks lobbying by Iain Duncan Smith

National Landlord Investment Show sparks lobbying by Iain Duncan...

The UK’s leading property investment show has brought the controversial subject of landlord licensing and laws into the national press by its Expert Property Panel, including Iain Duncan Smith MP and...

TPO act on agents who did not pass rent on to Landlords

TPO act on agents who did not pass rent on to Landlords...

There have been recent articles in Property118 from readers regarding lack of support for landlord complaints against agents. However, The Property Ombudsman (TPO) redress scheme have expelled three agents...

Rent Guarantee Insurance From Property118

Rent Guarantee Insurance From Property118...

You can now buy top level Rent Guarantee Insurance through Property 118, offering high level cover with no excess at all. Click Here Rent Guarantee Insurance protects landlords from tenants defaulting...

Rent to Rent Operator Prosecuted and Fined

Rent to Rent Operator Prosecuted and Fined...

A Rent-to-Rent operator called Arthur Zurvskij has been found guilty by Willesden Magistrates Court of illegally sub-letting a five bedroom house to seven tenants. The owner of the property, who lived...

Landlord Action calls for unregulated eviction companies to join a redress scheme

Landlord Action calls for unregulated eviction companies to join...

Over the years, Landlord Action has been instructed to take on several cases following the malpractice of other eviction firms. With repossessions for landlords now taking on average 43 weeks*, Landlord...

TDS launches Code of Recommended Practice

TDS launches Code of Recommended Practice...

The UK’s longest running provider of tenancy deposit schemes, TDS, today launches its Code of Recommended Practice for deposit protection, continuing its on-going remit of improving standards in the...

June gross mortgage lending figures up 9% on May

June gross mortgage lending figures up 9% on May...

UK Finance which incorporates the old Council of Mortage Lenders (CML) has released estimated June gross mortgage lending figures showing £22.1 billion of borrowing up 9% on May figures of £20.3 billion.

Section 24 could cause the next pension crisis

Section 24 could cause the next pension crisis...

The impact of recent changes to the way buy-to-let properties are taxed could create the next pension crisis as individuals are becoming over-reliant on property to fund their retirement years, says the...

English Housing Survey – Private Rented Sector 2015-2016 released

English Housing Survey – Private Rented Sector 2015-2016...

The English Housing Survey on the Private Rented Sector (PRS) 2015-2016 was released yesterday by the Department for Communities and Local Government. Click Here to see the full report Despite popular...

Weakened government u-turns on digital tax return plans

Weakened government u-turns on digital tax return plans...

Commenting on the Government’s decision to U-turn on its controversial Making Tax Digital Programme, Richard Lambert, Chief Executive Officer at the National Landlords Association (NLA), said: “We...

Belvoir acquires Brook FS t/a Mortgage Brook Advice Bureau to help mitigate ban on tenant fees

Belvoir acquires Brook FS t/a Mortgage Brook Advice Bureau to...

Belvoir, which has over 300 offices on the High Street and is currently the UK’s largest property franchise has announced the acquisition of Brook Financial Services Ltd, which trades as Mortgage Advice...

TDS Charitable Foundation report

TDS Charitable Foundation report...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme’s charitable foundation has released a report ‘How do we stamp out damp, condensation and mould in the private rented sector?‘ Kate Faulkner of designsonproperty.co.uk...

Paragon report shows landlord’s no. 1 priority is reversal of Section 24

Paragon report shows landlord’s no. 1 priority is reversal...

Paragon Mortgages’ Private Rental Sector (PRS) Trends Report for Q2 2017 was based on interviews with 201 experienced residential landlords. The landlords surveyed were asked to list in order of their...

Landlords attacked for being wealthy fallacy

Landlords attacked for being wealthy fallacy...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) have reported on figures obtained from DUP MP Jim Shannon’s parliamentary questions requesting figures on HMRC self assessment tax brackets for the 1.9...

78% of BTL purchases now for Limited companies

78% of BTL purchases now for Limited companies...

Mortgages for Business have reported that 78% of all Buy to Let applications are now in the name of limited companies post Section 24 mortgage interest relief reductions coming into force. 73% of all completions...

Ex MPC member says attacks on landlords are profoundly wrongheaded

Ex MPC member says attacks on landlords are profoundly wrongheaded...

Professor David Miles was a Monetary Policy Committee member at the Bank of England from 2009 until 2015 and has said the tax attacks against landlords by the government with Section 24 and Stamp Duty...

‘No deposit’ insurance product debate

‘No deposit’ insurance product debate...

With tenancy deposits coming under fire recently, Eddie Hooker, CEO of Hamilton Fraser, parent company to mydeposits, looks at whether alternative insurance products, offering a deposit free solution,

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