Landlord magazine
THE LOCAL HOUSING ALLOWANCE
Published on: 28th January 2008
Expert property lawyer Tessa Shepperson takes a brief look at the proposed changes in the housing benefit system after the 6th April and how it is likely to impact on landlords. All change after April 07 Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is a new method of payment of housing benefit, which has been trialled in various […]
TIME FOR A PROPERTY ‘MAKEOVER’
Published on: 24th January 2008
Every landlord should know that it is the initial impact of their residential investment property that will sell it to a buyer or more importantly a potential tenant. Therefore, with spring just around the corner; should a landlord be looking at giving their residential investment property a bit more than a spring clean? If so […]
SHOULD LANDLORDS BUY OR SELL?
Published on: 17th January 2008
Headlines in the Telegraph this week were that: “House prices in Britain are the most over-inflated in the world and a fall in the value of homes is inevitable, leading economists have warned.” The paper stated that an international study had found that the cost of residential property in the UK has risen faster than […]
TAX DEMANDS
Published on: 14th January 2008
Tax deadline looming I’m sure that landlords need no reminding about what time of the year it is. The jollies and festivities are out the way – now to get down to doing your property rental businesses tax return & getting it submitted before the tax deadline of 31st January. That is unless you want […]
BIG BUSINESS IN BUY TO LET
Published on: 11th January 2008
David Lawrenson, the property investment and buy-to-let expert give his personal perspective on how the Government wants to encourage more direct involvement into the buy-to-let sector by big business. Politicians keen to get business into buy-to-let Both government and the opposition have separately announced plans for major reviews of housing provision and investment policy. Housing […]
IMPROVED INSURANCE SCHEME
Published on: 9th January 2008
Hundreds of our professional landlords have already used Property Hawk’s unique gateway to finding the landlord insurance that suits their type of buy-to-let property or size of residential investment portfolio. Search here to find the best landlord insurance deals. Landlords may be interested to learn that buy-to-let insurance brokers Alan Boswell, one of Property Hawk’s […]
LANDLORDS GOING TO COURT
Published on: 7th January 2008
Going to court should always be a landlord’s last resort. Unfortunately though, a court appearance is a fact of life for many landlords who are looking at regaining possession of their buy-to-let investment property, or are simply trying to retrieve rent & other monies owed to them by their tenant. It is almost certain that […]
BEWARE-LOW FLYING REINDEER
Published on: 19th December 2007
Dear all, You know it’s almost Xmas when you can hear the buzz of low flying reindeer at night, or could it possibly be the nearby East Midlands Airport. As another year of buy-to-let investing draws to an end, some landlords will be richer some poorer, but all of us will be older. It certainly […]
MORE LETTING TIPS
Published on: 11th December 2007
Many of you will have read part one of expert tips given by two of our readers Maggie and Terry Samuel on how to let out high quality properties to student tenants. These tips are not just useful to student landlords they are also of interest to all landlords letting out buy-to-let property. Maggie and […]
XMAS TAX PRESENT FOR DEVELOPERS
Published on: 5th December 2007
For those landlords who develop empty & derelict buy-to-let investment properties the tax man has a Christmas present for these landlords. In his pre-Budget report, Chancellor Alistair Darling announced a change in the VAT rules designed to provide incentives for landlords to take on derelict properties and hopefully breathe new life into rundown areas. From […]
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