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Published on: 16th March 2009
Landlords, now living in a world of falling property prices, lowering property transactions and a contracting buy-to-let mortgage market may be interested to know that not everything is shrinking. Take for instance Property Hawks membership. Landlord insurance – discounted professional rates – quick quotes We have just signed up our 30,000th user and therefore I […]
Are Rents Falling?
Published on: 12th March 2009
The ‘Landlord news’ at the moment is full of stories of falling rents. Findaproperty recently revealed that rents are falling in central London. After the fall out in the banking sector and following on from several years of strong rental growth we are not surprised by this trend. Property Hawk has set out to find […]
Rental Market Interview
Published on: 9th March 2009
An interview with Findaproperty.com head of research, Andrew Smith about their recently launched monthly rental index. He reflects on the February ststistsics and the increase in rental stock that they have recorded. Rental stock levels are up 43 per cent in the last six months driven largely by ‘frustrated vendors’ putting their properties up for […]
Tenant Manual And Document
Any landlord that has set up a new tenancy recently, prepares themselves for a barrage of questions from their new tenant following the handover of the property. Landlord insurance – professional rates – available to Property Hawk landlords Sometimes landlords are pleasantly surprised and the tenancy proceeds without further contact with the tenant; the rent […]
Feast to Famine to Feast?
Published on: 5th March 2009
Landlords, there’s no doubt about it. We live in extraordinary and complex times. Who would have thought a couple of years ago that some whiz, bang, financial derivatives such as mortgage backed securities or credit default swaps invented in London and exported around the world would come back and bite us all on the butt? […]
Landlord Reminder System
Published on: 24th February 2009
That reminds me ….we have now installed a comprehensive ‘landlord Reminder system’ as part of our FREE property management software. The ‘Reminders system’ allows landlords to set up regular monthly or weekly email Reminders generated out from all their management data, housed in a single email memorandum. We decided to compound all the Reminder elements […]
BTL Mortgages – Best Deals
Published on: 23rd February 2009
There is no doubt the buy-to-let mortgage market has been decimated over the last 18 months. Many of the large buy-to-let lenders have been nationalised such as Mortgage Express or Northern Rock. Other lenders have priced themselves out of the market or effectively withdrawn such as the likes of Paragon & GMAC The result is […]
Mortgage Rates – Where Next?
Published on: 18th February 2009
A key business consideration for any landlord is financing and more specifically the level and direction of interest rates. This has massive implications for their business whether it relates to additional lending or refinancing their existing portfolio. Who would have predicted 2 or even 1 year ago that base rates would be at 1%, their […]
Free Tenant Insurance & Advice
Published on: 10th February 2009
Landlords are watching with concern as the number of job lay offs increase. All we can do is just hope that it is not one of our tenants. A period of unemployment means that many tenants will be unable to afford some of their largest outgoings. One of their biggest is undoubtedly rent, and this […]
Has Property Stopped Falling?
Published on: 9th February 2009
The Property Report comes from Rightmoves head office. Miles Shipside at Rightmove looks at the state of consumer confidence in the UK housing market. Interview from www.cantos.com the online financial broadcaster providing video interviews with FTSE CEOs and business commentators FREE TENANCY AGREEMENTS FREE LANDLORD SOFTWARE
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