Landlord magazine
FILLING OUT A SECTION 213 NOTICE
Published on: 12th May 2008
Do landlords need a section 213 notice? One of the less well known aspects of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) legislation is that not only does it require the landlord to protect the tenant’s deposit under an approved scheme. Landlords also need to provide certain prescribed information to the tenant explaining how the tenant’s deposit […]
GAZUNDERING IS BACK
Published on: 7th May 2008
Landlords have to search hard for the positives in the current property market. House prices are falling; last week Halifax, the UK’s biggest mortgage lender released figures suggesting that the down turn is gathering pace. Halifax said its index of house prices fell by 1.3% last month, a bigger drop than analysts had expected. More […]
CREDIT CRUNCH ‘LIVE’
Published on: 30th April 2008
As a landlord you want to know what really is going on out there in the property investment world. Unlike other landlord websites that regurgitate meaningless news feeds with empty headlines like ‘buy-to-let still booming’ which anybody with half a brain knows is far from the truth. We at Property Hawk are committed to getting […]
THE BMV MYTH EXPLODED
Published on: 22nd April 2008
What are Below Market Value (BMV) properties? BMV is an abreviation for the term Below Market Value. Below Market Value (BMV) properties are residential properties that are available below their market value. This is normally because the owners are faced with some kind of financial difficulty and want to or need to dispose of their […]
CALCULATING BUY TO LET RETURNS
Published on: 21st April 2008
How do Landlords calculate their returns on their property investments? Buying a residential investment property is very different to buying a home. For a start what landlords are really buying is a property investment and letting business. Therefore a key part of a landlord’s decision making process of whether to invest or not in a […]
LANDLORDS SHOULD START BUYING
Published on: 14th April 2008
Should landlords start buying more property? Is it a good time for landlords to buy property? With the ‘credit crunch’, global economic jitters and general media ‘stir up’ of a property price crash are there actual property investment opportunities out there or should landlords be wary of setting themselves up for a property price fall. […]
PROPERTY DEVELOPER INCENTIVES
Published on: 2nd April 2008
Property market gloom throws up incentives for landlords The gloom surrounding the housing market has caused many potential purchasers to hold back from buying, resulting in sales volumes contracting significantly. This is all hitting house builders hard depressing sales volumes and future profits. We only have to look at the way the share price of […]
FILLING OUT A TENANCY AGREEMENT
Published on: 31st March 2008
Do I need a written tenancy agreement? Firstly, it is perfectly possible to let your property without filling out a tenancy agreement. A landlord can grant a tenancy verbally providing: it takes effect on the day it is granted it is for a term not exceeding 3 years, and it is at the best […]
WHAT’S HAPPENING OUT THERE?
Published on: 20th March 2008
With the banks stock markets and any other market you care to think of appearing to be in crisis or melt down; Property Hawk decided to see what is happening on the streets for every day buy-to-let landlords in the UK right now. Thank God that’s not me! We start by highlighting one case quoted […]
VIEW OF A PESSIMISTIC OPTIMIST
Published on: 17th March 2008
Hawkeyes view of the UK property market, future fall or rise of property prices. I’m an optimist by nature. I have already lived through one housing depression during the early nineties. Some economists predicted at the time that house prices would fall for a decade. I ignored the doom mongers and instead started to build […]
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