Landlord magazine
Avoiding A Cannabis Farm
Published on: 3rd June 2009
How can landlords avoid having their rental property turned into a ‘cannabis farm’? Landlords who think that because they let to ‘respectable tenants’ will avoid having their buy-to-let property turned into a cannabis farm may be operating under a misapprehension. This is because many operators use ‘Front Couples’ to start off the tenancy according to […]
Gas Safety Register
Published on: 1st June 2009
Gas safety changes for landlords. Landlords letting property with any gas appliances should be aware of the new regulatory regime that came into force from the 1st of April. The old system was regulated by CORGI. The new system operated by the out sourcing company Capita is called the Gas Safe Register. For details of […]
Letting Agents – A Rip Off?
Published on: 28th May 2009
For years landlords have had an uneasy relationship with letting agents. Some are no doubt very good. Some fulfil the function of ensuring that a landlord’s property remains let, by providing a let only service. In many cases they manage the entire letting and management of the buy-to-let property allowing a landlord to concentrate on […]
Best of the BTL Blogs
Published on: 26th May 2009
There has been some feverous posting by our BTL bloggers, with over 50 posts so far in May alone. This month has also marked the launch of our Twitter service – landlordnews. So if you want to keep up to date with minute by minute breaking news of what’s going on with the world of […]
Managing a Rent Reduction
Published on: 20th May 2009
Landlords looking to reduce their tenants rent. It’s a sign of the times that we should be talking to landlords about managing a rent reduction. Over the last couple of years most landlords have faced the opposite challenge of ensuring that they do not get behind the market rent by instigating regular rent increases. However, […]
Tesco-isation of Landlords
Published on: 18th May 2009
‘Tesco-isation’ threatens landlords Nelson once described the British as a nation of shop keepers. Well looking at the number of small retailers that have gone out of business during the current down-turn, that may well be a little optimistic. However, over the last decade with the buy-to-let initiative we have seen a revolution amongst the […]
Green Shoots – Time to Buy
Published on: 14th May 2009
Landlord who have been watching the landlordnews carefully will have seen that this week the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) released figures showing that new buyer enquiries were at their highest level in almost ten years. With the property market almost 20% down from its 2007 peak many commentators are suggesting that we are […]
BTL Mortgage Update
Published on: 11th May 2009
Buy-to-let mortgage update The MPC announced last week that they intended to keep the Bank of England base rate on hold at 0.5%. This is the second month in a row that policy makers have held rates unchanged. In light of the stabilising interest rate situation we sent our own Mortgage Monkey in search of […]
Landlord Licence Looms
Published on: 8th May 2009
Landlords, just when you thought it was safe to come out of the bunker in the belief that this Government has unleashed its last salvo of idiotic half baked ideas. HIPs? LHA? The National Identity Card (now to be a voluntary scheme in Manchester!) They top it all by proposing that every UK landlord has […]
60% of leaseholders overcharged
Published on: 5th May 2009
A recent article in Property Week highlights claims by a London property manager that up to 60% of leaseholders and this includes residential landlords, are being ‘ripped off’ and paying inflated building insurance premiums. Chainbow,which manages more than 77 sites that are home to 3,600 leaseholders across the south-east, said building insurance scams are one […]
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