Landlord magazine
WATCH OUT LANDLORDS – TAXMAN!
Published on: 12th March 2008
“Ghost” tax officers The Financial Times has reported that “Ghost” tax officers are being employed by the Revenue to check advertising cards in shops and supermarkets in order to catch out landlords that are letting out their properties and failing to declare it according to accountancy firm PKF. To get up to date guidance on […]
STRUGGLING WITH MY PAYMENTS
Published on: 5th March 2008
The latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reveals that there has been a sharp rise in arrears and repossessions amongst buy-to-let landlords as the ‘credit crunch’ bites. Landlords that are more than 3 months in arrears have gone up from 0.58% of loans at the end of 06 to 0.73% by the […]
HOW TO PREPARE AN INVENTORY
Published on: 3rd March 2008
Do you need a FREE inventory form? The change over of tenancy for many landlords produces a very long To Do List for a landlord. They need to make sure they can select the right tenant, set up the tenancy and most importantly start collecting their valuable rental income. Want to now the ten basic […]
INSIDE TRACK ON BTL MORTGAGES
Published on: 28th February 2008
The dust is just starting to settle on the ‘credit crunch’ and landlords & BTL mortgage lenders are beginning to get some kind of clarity of what the buy-to-let mortgage market of the future will look like. Many landlords have been holding fire on remortgaging or buying additional residential investment properties waiting to see how […]
HOUSE PRICE CRASH HYPE
Published on: 25th February 2008
David Lawrenson, property investment and buy-to-let expert warns landlords not to believe the house price crash hype. The media is still doing their best to talk up a recession and a fall in house prices. However, out in the real world, the real market (outside the awful oversupplied and in places fraud ridden new build […]
INTERNET SHOPPING FOR LANDLORDS
Published on: 18th February 2008
Landlords are all aware of the convenience of shopping on line. This is why more landlords than ever are choosing to find and then buy goods and services using the Internet. Internet shopping made up 15p in every pound of retail spending last year. Spending on the web leapt to a record £46.6bn in 2007 […]
TDS – ARE YOU A LEGAL LANDLORD?
Published on: 11th February 2008
As most of you will be aware, since 6 April 2007 landlords of assured shorthold tenancies taking a damage deposit now have to arrange for this to be protected under one of the three government authorised Tenancy Deposit Schemes (TDS), or face penalties. There are two types of scheme: The Custodial Scheme. This is free […]
RAISING THE RENT
Published on: 6th February 2008
The Financial Times reported at the weekend that many estate and letting agents are seeing booming demand for rental property as first time buyers and foreign workers defer buying homes amid continued uncertainty over house prices. Agents around London and the south east in particular are seeing up to 25% more activity in their letting […]
CGT – SHOULD LANDLORDS SELL?
Published on: 4th February 2008
The pre-budget report from Alistair Darling in early October was heralded as a budget for residential property investors. Why? Because one of the main headlines was that the capital gains tax rate from 6th April 2008 would be reduced to a flat rate of 18%. What this means is that people who have been investing […]
LANDLORDS WILL NEED AN EPC IN 08
Published on: 31st January 2008
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) Landlords that thought they had seen the last of any more ludicrous legislation from this Government affecting their buy-to-let investment properties will be sadly disappointed. The latest crazy bit of paperwork dreamt up by the bureaucrats in Whitehall coming via a European directive from their counterparts in Brussels is the Energy […]
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