Landlord magazine
New year finance review
Published on: 26th January 2012
The Co-op announced last week that it was stepping up lending into the buy-to-let mortgage market by a third this year. Their specialist lending arm, Platform has allocated at least £600m for buy-to-let loans in 2012. The attractiveness of the buy-to-let market to lenders is not surprising given the relative buoyancy of the rental market […]
Green Deal is Coming
Published on: 19th January 2012
Legislation should be in place by the end of the year to allow landlords to benefit from the Green Deal. How will it impact on landlords? The Green Deal is the much vaunted initiative to improve the energy efficiency in the UK’s housing stock. As regards landlords it is all about incentivising us into investing […]
Taxback opportunity
Published on: 12th January 2012
It’s January which means only one thing for most landlords, yes it’s time to get to grips with their self assessment tax return. I’m no different.(If you think you may have over paid in previous years then please read on!) I’m not looking forward to this years return. Having used up all my previous losses […]
Landlords Christmas Charity
Published on: 21st December 2011
OK it’s Christmas. Bah humbug & all that…. But are landlords really as mean and hard nosed as those in the media try and make out? Or is it the rather inconvenient truth that some of us really have a heart that actually pulses some human warmth? Personally, I‘ve been supporting the charity Shelter since […]
Houses – cheap as chips?
Published on: 15th December 2011
As the year comes to an end many landlords will be drawing up their plans for 2012. With the buy-to-let mortgage market improving many of us are thinking of adding to our buy-to-let portfolio. But should we…are houses cheap or are we buying an asset that’s value is just about to plunge? BTL Mortgages – […]
Property Hawk Christmas Party
Published on: 8th December 2011
Fancy coming to our Xmas Party….well read on….. Property Hawk believes in speaking up! We all know that when you act alone against government or big business you get nowhere! One voice just gets ignored or drowned out. Since Property Hawk was set up over 5 years ago we have tried to stick up for […]
LHA – train crash
Published on: 1st December 2011
I was contacted several weeks ago by one of our longstanding users. Kevin wrote to highlight the very real impact that the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) changes are having on his younger tenants: “This week I have had to speak to 2 of my under 35 tenants about the changes in January. One has been […]
DPS needs competition
Published on: 24th November 2011
I’m like the majority of small landlords in that I have opted to use the Deposit Protection Scheme (DPS) to protect my tenant deposits. Landlords have been required to place the tenants’ deposit with one of the approved schemes since April 2007,and that’s who Ive tended to opt for. My experience of the DPS I’ve got […]
BTL mortgage regulation
Published on: 17th November 2011
Europe is at it again! Not content with their crazy project “Euro” putting the whole global economy in jeopardy the Eurocrats are now looking at sticking their noses into our buy-to-let mortgage market. Please save us! Landlords who had been investing in property prior to the ‘credit crunch’ will have witnessed the dramatic fall in […]
Repaying the deposit
Published on: 10th November 2011
You might be aware that I’ve had a number of new tenants recently. This has involved me having to conduct several tenant ‘check ins’ and ‘check outs’. I’m relieved so far that the properties have all been handed over in ‘one piece’ and that more importantly; the new tenants seem legitimate members of the human […]
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