Landlord magazine
Heating game changer for landlords
Published on: 5th July 2012
The responsibility for maintaining the heating in a tenants’ property is rightly the responsibility of the landlord under Section 11 (c) of the Housing Act 1985. It states a landlords obligation is: “to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for space heating and heating water”. A recent post in […]
Section 21 Versus Section 8 Notices
Published on: 28th June 2012
Landlords seeking possession frequently have to decide between the merits of using a Section 21 notice or a Section 8 notice. Both have merits but which one should landlords use? Rebecca Brough of solicitors Fidler and Pepper discusses the differences between the two types of notices. If you want to use the section 8 notice […]
Property Manager – Rents and upgrades
Published on: 21st June 2012
Landlords that the Property Hawk website even if only to download a free tenancy agreement will have come into contact with our free property management software, PM 3.0. The PM 3.0 sits at the heart of the website, enabling landlords to manage their lettings business anywhere using the principles of cloud computing. When a landlord […]
How to Manage Possession Costs
Published on: 14th June 2012
This week I have handed over the editors chair to Rebecca Brough of leading online solicitor Fidler and Pepper to outline some of the key features of their new fixed fee possession service for landlords. This high personalised service for the first time caps the possession costs faced by landlords and ensures that their legal […]
How to renew a tenancy
Published on: 7th June 2012
Renewing a tenancy is one of the most straightforward aspects of managing a tenancy. But many landlords, particularly newbie landlords are also lost as to what to do. I thought I would revisit the topic. The simple answer for most landlords is that you probably don’t have to do anything. The way the law stands […]
Increasing the rent
Published on: 31st May 2012
Increasing the rent is becoming a pleasant and regular occurence for many landlords. Rents are going up according to most rental indices. Yippee! Some of the most popular rental indices are: The Rentindex Homelet rental index Rentright Findaproperty Current rents We like the Rentindex (but we would) for the fact that it only uses Assured […]
Cashflow is king
Published on: 23rd May 2012
Cash is king, how many times have landlords heard this in the recent economic climate? But, it’s true. If you just take a trawl along to your local property auction you will be left in no doubt that if you have cash in your back pocket you have every chance of bagging yourself a property […]
Landlord legislation
Published on: 17th May 2012
The relationship between landlord and tenant should be a straightforward one. The paternalistic avuncular landlord and their respectful and appreciative tenant living together in harmony. However, underlying this harmonious existence is a whole plethora of legislation. The starting point if there is a disagreement between a landlord and tenant is the primary legislation governing the […]
Leaseholders Overcharged?
Published on: 3rd May 2012
Many landlords are freeholders of their buy-to-let investments. The idea of being a tenant but also a landlord is a bit of a paradox. For over 3 million leaseholders in the UK including many landlords it’s a daily reality. A leasehold interest is one which is subservient to that of the freeholder and the whole […]
US Property Investment Warning
Published on: 26th April 2012
US property investment on the face of it looks an absolute sure fire winning property investment. Fantastic rental yields of 15% plus, capital values at the lowest levels for years and a slowly improving US economy points to a great potential investment. Personally however I’ve not been convinced that US property investment was quite the […]
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