Landlord magazine
TDS – SIX MONTHS ON
Published on: 26th October 2007
David Lawrenson, the buy-to-let and property investment expert gives his personal views on how the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) is fairing 6 months after launch. Landlords the Tenancy Deposit Scheme – a refresh How are tenancy deposit schemes faring 6 months after they started? At a recent speech I gave to a trade association, the […]
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY
Published on: 22nd October 2007
Buy-to-let investors over the last few years have associated the word property as a bi-word for fast investment profits, extraordinary investment returns and stories of individual investors going from rags to riches over night. With house prices booming in the UK; up by 300% in 10 years, more and more UK landlords have looked to […]
CGT LANDLORD SPECIAL
Published on: 17th October 2007
A tax giveaway for landlords? Landlords are set to be one of the main beneficiaries from the proposed tax changes signalled by the Chancellors Pre-budget Statement last week. This Statement which outlines what changes are to be made for the tax year 08-09 or effectively the tax regime that is to come into force on […]
FINANCIAL FREEDOM FOR LANDLORDS
Published on: 15th October 2007
You may be reading this at work on Monday morning thinking there must be any easier way of making a living. I can tell you there is. I secured my financial freedom at the ripe old age of 37. It didn’t happen over night though. A decade of hard work aided by a housing boom […]
FREE WAYS TO ADVERTISE LETS
Published on: 10th October 2007
Can landlords really market their property for free? One of the Property Hawk team recently came across a landlord discussion forum where a landlord had asked which were the best free letting websites? We set out to investigate. The internet has seen a boom in recent years of property marketing websites; many of these however […]
BUY TO RETIRE LANDLORDS
Published on: 8th October 2007
For many people a property is more than a place to live. It is the start of a whole new lifestyle and better quality of life. What could be better than all of this being financed out of the rent paid by somebody else? For most landlords a place to retire to is likely to […]
KEEPING TENANTS WARM
Published on: 1st October 2007
How can landlords keep their tenants warm this winter? “Save on heating bills, put them on the fire” I‘ve heard one landlord remark. Property Hawk clearly has a slightly more responsible attitude. Seriously with the last vestiges of the ‘Summer’ disappearing, a landlord’s thoughts naturally turn towards securing their buy-to-let investment property for the Winter. […]
IDENTITY THEFT – D.Lawrenson
Published on: 25th September 2007
As the incidence of credit and ID fraud increases, so landlords have had to collect more and more information on tenants to ensure that they don’t get the tenant from hell. Only by using a proper referencing system can they be sure that the person standing in front us who wants to rent a house, […]
VANISHING TENANTS – ABANDONMENT
Published on: 24th September 2007
The event of a tenant suddenly disappearing is unfortunately not an uncommon incident for landlords. It will normally occur when a tenant is having financial or personal problems and for many landlords the initial feeling is that of relief. However, the relief experienced by a landlord at this apparent sudden resolution to what might have […]
NORTHERN ROCKS LANDLORDS
Published on: 20th September 2007
I’m afraid this week a landlord would have to have been living in a hut on an island in the middle of the South Pacific to have escaped the hullabaloo surrounding the UK’s 5th biggest mortgage lender. Property Hawk sets out to find out what it all means for UK landlords or is it all […]
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