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ARLA Call on Landlords to Think Green...

The Green Deal has fallen on deaf ears according to the latest research from the Association of Residential Letting Agents. The research found that half (51%) of the landlords questioned hadn’t heard...

Student landlords face planning postcode lottery...

Inconsistent planning policies for student landlords are making some cities no-go zones for property investors. The problems arise from ‘article 4 directions’ for small shared rental properties –...

Estate agent secretly tried to let home he should have sold...

An estate agent tried to make some money on the side by renting an empty home he was trying to sell. Your Move sales consultant Daniel Morriss, 25, advertised the two-bed house to let online as a furnished...

House prices expected to stagnate for rest of 2012...

House prices are stagnating and are expected to stay the same for the rest of the year, according to one of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders. May house prices increased 0.5% after a 2.3% drop in April...

Euro MPs kick out EU buy to let mortgage regulation...

Buy to let mortgage lenders are sighing with relief after the European parliament voted to exclude landlord loans from tough new lending rules. The UK’s Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has campaigned...

More surveys confirm North/South property divide...

Buy to let rents slipped back 4.3% to an average £919 a month in May, according to letting agents haart. Average rents across the country fell, but slightly increased across the UK when excluding London...

Sex spy landlord secretly filmed couples in bed...

A landlord addicted to porn secretly watched couples having sex with a spy camera secreted in an alarm clock on a bedside table in a holiday cottage bedroom. A judge told Jonathan Waugh, 52, that he was...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 117...

Read the headlines from the past week featuring the latest columns and commentary from the buy to let and housing industry, as well as the latest news.

Smug landlords win seal of approval from tenants...

Landlords are not the heartless profit seekers exploiting vulnerable tenants in shoddy housing that they are often purported to be, according to new research. In fact, most tenants are more than pleased...

Landlords face compulsory nationwide deposit protection...

The countdown to nationwide tenant deposit protection is on as Scotland joins the scheme already running in England and Wales from July 2. The Scottish Government has approved two more protection schemes,

DPG and Zoopla merger finally completes...

The merger of Zoopla and Digital Property Group has been officially announced, finally; the deal was struck last October and passed by the Office of Trading Standards in April. The move is seen as an...

HMO landlord fined £5,500 for letting filthy home...

The landlord of a filthy and overcrowded shared house was fined £5,500 after admitting 23 licensing and management offences to magistrates. Jan Assakzai 42, of Friars Road, East Ham, London, picked up...

HMRC targets landlord tax cheats in property crack down...

Landlords who have failed to pay tax on the sale or buy to let rents face extra scrutiny from a new HM Revenue & Customs tax force. A team of investigators covering East Anglia, London, Leeds, York,

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Lease extension – how to calculate the premium...

Most lenders insist that a term of at least 35 years must exist on a lease in addition to the required mortgage term. Therefore, if a borrower requests a 25 year mortgage term the remaining lease term...

Rent Costs Buy to Let Tenants More Than Half their Pay...

Rent costs nearly a third of buy to let tenants 50% or more of their take home pay, according to research by online property portal Rightmove. While paying private rents averages 38% of take home pay for...

Struck-off solicitor branded slum landlord for house of filth...

A struck-off solicitor and an estate agent who managed a house shared by 12 tenants who lived in filthy conditions have been branded slum landlords by their local council. Both picked up rents from the...

House price crash triggers tax windfall on inherited homes...

Falling house prices has meant up to £90 million has been overpaid in inheritance tax by families and friends who have been left a home in a will. Insurance firm NFU Mutual reckons the tax is reclaimable...

14:27 PM, 29th May 2012, About 12 years ago | 0

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Cheapest homes in England sell for just £8,000...

The cheapest homes in England and Wales were sold for just £8,000 in April, according to the latest Land Registry data. Two homes sold for £8,000 out of more than 51,000 that changed hands.

Letting agents slammed as fees go through the roof...

Letting agents are charging fees of up to £600 to tenants who want to privately rent a home in Wales, says housing charity Shelter. Shelter claims letting agents mask the true cost of letting a property...

16:02 PM, 28th May 2012, About 12 years ago | 3

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Property investors face a new £420 million tax blitz...

Landlords and second home owners who leave their properties standing empty face a new tax blitz. The government is to introduce proposals to let local authorities raise an extra £420 million a year in...

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