Apr
13

Get your hands on your FREE copy of the UK’s leading magazine for active property people!

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Did you know that 55% of UK landlords own only one investment property? So many start with the intentions of building a portfolio – they start to ascend the learning curve, but never get the advantages of using those initial learnings again and again to build an ever expanding property portfolio. Warren Buffett is often… Read more

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Apr
13

Landlords going for cheaper properties

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Investment Strategy: New figures from Mortgages for Business show that in Quarter One 2017 landlords, presumably in response to tax changes, are opting for cheaper property purchases and consequently smaller mortgages. There’s also a trend towards buying more non-standard buy to lets in the form of more complex property purchases*. That’s according to the latest […]

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Apr
13

Focusing Minds In Local Government

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Next week we will be sending the following to all UK Councils.  Freedom of Information Request To Whom It May Concern We are attempting to quantify the impact on homelessness over the next 5 years in the [merge in name of Council] area. A survey carried out in November 2016 by Property118 (The Landlords Union)… Read more

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Apr
12

RLA to support new UK Housing Evidence Centre

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A new national housing research centre is being funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) will be independent from government, and is a collaboration between nine UK Universities and four non-HEI organisations […]

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Apr
12

Concerns over Right to Rent checks in Wales

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Right to Rent checks are currently in place across England following a trial period in 2015, however the rollout to Wales and Scotland is proving to be trickier than first anticipated. The checks face a number of obstacles before they can be implemented here in Wales as the Welsh Government has passed a series of […]

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Apr
12

Welfare Reform Impact

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Those who claim Universal Credit will apparently see a vital change to the “taper rate” which came into force on the 11th April 2017, the claimant’s UC award will be reduced by 63p for every £1 of net earning in excess of their work allowance, as opposed to by 65p for every £1.  Please follow… Read more

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Apr
12

Councils question multi-occupation conversions

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When new government regulations come into force later this year, councils will be able, instead of a long wait to get rogue landlords court, to issue fixed penalty notices of up to £30,000 for failing to comply with improvement and overcrowding notices, as well as apply banning orders. The Local Government Association (LGA) is now […]

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Apr
11

How to insure flats without planning permission?

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I have a house that has been converted into two self-contained flats recently. The flats have achieved building regulation certification for the conversion BUT NOT planning permission. My current insurers don’t specifically ask about planning permission even though they know it’s a house split into two flats but when, in the interests of full disclosure,… Read more

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Apr
11

Development land uplift clause and divorce?

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My husband and I have been married for 25 years, separated for 8 years. I have now decided to divorce him because of his unreasonable behaviour. We have several buy to let properties and also land with planning permission to build houses. Would it be possible for me to put an uplift clause or similar… Read more

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Apr
11

Landlords Cautiously Optimistic

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PRS Trends: Two years on from the post-election budget shock of the summer of 2015, when George Osborne’s tax raid on landlords was announced, ostensibly to create “a more level playing field” between landlords and homeowners,” the commencement of this measure in April 2017 is finally upon us. The removal of mortgage interest relief will […]

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