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Mortgage Lending: Why banks and building societies should be lending to the self-employed buy-to-let investors! Leading national broker is urging the mortgage industry to catch up with modern living and end the view that a landlord with PAYE income is more secure than a contractor, or sole trader. According to the latest Office of National […]
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Rented Housing Reforms
Housing White Paper: The rented housing reforms will fail without backing the country’s landlords say RLA chairman. Efforts to reform and boost the supply of homes for private rent in today’s Housing White Paper will achieve little without backing those individuals making up the majority of the country’s landlords. The White Paper is forecast to […]
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Reforms rely on support for landlords
Efforts to reform and boost the supply of homes for private rent in the Housing White Paper will achieve little without backing those individuals making up the majority of the country’s landlords. Today’s White Paper is forecast to give a renewed push towards encouraging greater institutional investment in the sector. This is despite the London […]
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Time to bail but I have a Council notice of improvement?
Hi I have decided BTL is no longer for me. I wish to sell ahead of the upcoming accountancy changes (I.e. mortgage no longer deductible etc). Before I enlist an estate agent to sell the property, I have a few hurdles to overcome: – Council has served an improvement notice with 2 mo this for… Read more
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Management with history of extraordinary service charges
I have two flats in a block of around 120. The block is undergoing a programme of refurbishment – long over due and has a history, unknown to me of taking ‘extraordinary service charge’ and not carrying out the work, a number of years ago residents took the block management (not these) to a tribunal… Read more
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Deadline for Additional Licensing Consultation Replies Looms in the Royal Borough of Greenwich
The London borough of Greenwich are currently running a consultation on a new Additional licensing scheme which will affect the whole borough. This scheme, if approved, will run for 5 years and will apply to small HMOs which are not licensed under mandatory HMO licensing. The council have cited the reasons for introducing such a scheme […]
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New tax rules for unencumbered property?
My wife has a commercial property(convenience store) with 2 X 2 bedroom flats above. This complete unit is unencumbered by any mortgage. The 3 units are all rented out. Does the new tax rules being fazed in from this April affect all of these units or, is, as I think I might have read somewhere,… Read more
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Minimum agents term in their policies but not my contract?
I have been renting out my house for 20 months and am on my second set of tenants. I have been happy with the estate agents who deal with sourcing and checking tenants and collecting rent as I manage the property myself. Two of the four tenants are moving out and the remaining two have… Read more
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Electrical safety checks must be risk based
Government plans to introduce mandatory electrical safety checks in PRS homes are being backed by the RLA – however the body says tests must be risk based. The association agrees compulsory checks of the fixed wiring are necessary due to the wide range of homes and standards within the private rented sector and on this […]
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Government Housing White Paper due out tomorrow
In a U-turn on previous Cameron policy to promote home ownership above all else, the new May administration, under the housing Minister Gavin Barwell, is due to place more of the emphasis on helping people in the rental sector with its new Housing White Paper. The Government will seek to assist and encourage, with the… Read more
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