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Landlord hopes sink over buy to let flood insurance...

The likely results of losing flood insurance are sinking-in to landlords with at risk property as much of the country lies underwater and weather forecasters predict even more rain. Great swathes of England...

Landlords claim Titanic captain haunts buy to let home...

Buy to let investors Neil and Louise Bonner are selling the childhood home of ill-fated Titanic skipper Captain Edward John – amid claims the house is haunted by him. Tenants have reported a series...

18:45 PM, 2nd May 2012, About 13 years ago | 1

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Landlords ready to sink more cash in to buy to let...

Landlords are still purchasing more buy to let homes, according to research by a mortgage lender. Property investors piled cash in to buy to let in the first three months of 2012, adding an average 1.8...

£7,500 chapel was cheapest property sold in March...

The cheapest property in England and Wales sold for just £7,500 in March. The stone-built Methodist Chapel in Felindre, Knighton, Powys, is a derelict building in the main street of the small Welsh village.

16:57 PM, 1st May 2012, About 13 years ago | 2

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Taskforce set to tackle beds in sheds scandal...

Beds in sheds landlords face a crackdown by a special government taskforce aimed at closing down criminal landlords and tracking down illegal immigrants. Housing minister Grant Shapps and immigration minister...

17:06 PM, 30th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 6

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Drugs police raid a cannabis factory once every hour...

Drugs squads are raiding a cannabis factory nearly once every hour and seizing drugs worth hundreds of millions of pounds in an industry dubbed a growing menace by police commanders. On average, 21 drugs...

16:59 PM, 30th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 0

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Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 112...

This week’s edition features Ben Reeve-Lewis at the Property Investors Show, a challenge from Mark to Tony Robbins, Vanessa Warwick tackles tenant referencing and Neil looks at some completed finance...

Property hijacks prompt fraud alert from the FSA...

Financial watchdog is alerting landlords to watch out for property hijacking by fraudsters and crooked mortgage brokers. The Financial Services Authority has circulated the warning to all small financial...

Corporates sink millions into student letting...

Corporate investment in student letting was up 50% to £1.15 billion last year as rents and yields continue to go through the roof. The flood of institutional money into student accommodation has continued...

88% of young adults can’t afford to buy a home...

Seven out of eight young adults do not believe they can buy a home of their own in the next five years, according to research by the Post office. Instead, they will rent buy to let homes or stay with friends...

16:43 PM, 26th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 9

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Luxury home sales hit new high as rest of market falters...

Sales of homes worth £2 million or more are rising – and most are in just four upmarket neighbourhoods of London. Just over half of all multimillion pound home sales last year were in swish Kensington,

Buy to let regulation vote delayed again by Eurocrats...

European politicians have delayed voting on buy to let regulation and other key home loan proposals. The vote was scheduled to go before the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee...

Pointless property spending ruined the UK economy...

It’s not the money the government prints that triggers a resurgence in the economy, but the way everyone spends the cash, argues credit strategist Ben Bennett. The point of no return for the economy...

17:07 PM, 25th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 2

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Newham council wants to traffic tenants out of London...

Housing minister Grant Shapps has accused Newham Council, East London, of ‘playing politics with peoples’ lives’ over a radical plan to shunt homeless families out of the capital because benefit...

16:54 PM, 24th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 11

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Is your name listed in the fraudster’s phone book?

Property investors targeted by fraudsters are about to receive a letter or email from financial watchdogs warning them crooks are trying to con them out of cash. More than 75,000 names are on a secret...

Landlords drop housing benefit tenants as cuts bite...

Tenants on housing benefits are struggling to rent buy to let homes as landlords withdraw from the market. The market is set to deteriorate further over the next three years as huge numbers of landlords...

15:24 PM, 23rd April 2012, About 13 years ago | 22

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Landlords are the wrong target for buy to let regulation...

Landlords are the wrong target for buy to let regulation, according to the latest behind-the-scenes thinking. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the ‘rogue’ landlords debate, politicians...

14:57 PM, 23rd April 2012, About 13 years ago | 7

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Landlord claim for CGT relief kicked out by tax tribunal...

Landlords who have switched personal property investments into a company cannot claim capital gains tax reliefs on the transfers, according to a landmark tax tribunal case. Traders have claimed incorporation...

12:42 PM, 20th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 12

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Rising number of tenants struggle to pay rent, says ARLA...

Tenants are facing a financial struggle to pay their rents, according to the latest survey by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA). Around 40% of letting agents told their trade body that...

It’s love not war between landlords and tenants...

Deposit protection keeper Steve Harriott is promoting a love-in between landlords and tenants over the myth that they are constantly at war over money. After five years of tenancy deposit protection laws,

12:55 PM, 19th April 2012, About 13 years ago | 0

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