The Advantages of Using an Online Letting Agent

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With the rise of online property portals, there is now a whole new breed of letting agents out there. Online letting agents do everything a regular letting agent does, but they operate purely online. You can still contact them and deal with real people, but there is no shop front. For landlords used to dealing […]

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LSE study says tax grab will push-up rents

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A London School of Economics academic study says Buy-to-let tax will push up the rents and will hurt tenants more than landlords. Tenants could bear the brunt of buy-to-let tax changes, that’s the conclusion of a recent study produced by the LSE. Kath Scanlon, one of Britain’s leading housing academics, has said the Government’s overt […]

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Case of the week – Section 21s and late deposit protection

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The number one reason that new members call the Landlord Advice Team is that they have received a letter telling them their deposit was incorrectly protected and that they cannot evict their problem tenant.
Usually in these cases, the landlord has not protected the deposit at all and our advice is always to return the deposit and serve a fresh notice in these cases.
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Long-term landlords caught letting as “holiday lets”

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According to research carried out by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) nearly two thirds of all listings on Airbnb in London are for lets of 90 days or more. This means that these landlords are breaking letting regulations in England, which state that lets on a short term basis can be for no longer than […]

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Real estate worth one-fifth of UK net wealth…

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Commercial real estate (CRE) is worth a staggering £1,662bn and represents over one-fifth (20.6%) of total net wealth in the UK, that’s according to new research. British Property Federation (BPF) have released the figures in a Toscafund report they commissione which claims to show that CRE also contributed £94.2bn (about 5.4%) to the UK’s GDP […]

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ITZA revisited

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I am revisiting ITZA in the light of an experience I am enduring concerning some tenants that are inexperienced of rent review. Tenant contention is that an ITZA adopted/agreed for a previous review should be used again for a current review. Unless the ITZA is documented in a binding agreement, there is no reason why […]

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The Future of Property Investment

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In a market that is constantly exposed to new challenges and opportunities, one thing that we can be certain about is uncertainty. With house prices expected to rise by 25% in the next 5 years and “big data” to overtake property lead generation methods, we can expect many changes within a relatively short period of […]

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Rental "Building Boom" will transform the market

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The Build-to-Rent scheme was launched in 2012 as part of a series of government initiatives to increase the supply of high quality homes available for market rent in the private sector. The Government’s aim was and still is to encourage more institutional investment and professional management into the private rented sector. Until now most rental […]

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RLA leading panel at Landlord and Letting show

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The Landlord & Letting Show will be in Manchester next month, with the RLA leading a panel discussion on the Northern Powerhouse – and what it means for housing.
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Tax changes should make landlord “squeal”

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Landlords, still reeling from George Osborne’s budget tax shocks, have been told by a Tory Minister that they should be “squealing” under the crackdown. Designed to make landlords’ lives more difficult in a Tory bid to help more people buy their own homes, the changes caught landlords by surprise following the election of what they […]

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