Landlord magazine
How to make 25k tax free a year
Published on: 5th November 2015
I’m fascinated by ‘financial engineering’ and how every so often, quirks of timing cause financial opportunities to present themselves. An alignment of the ‘financial stars’ can scream out – this investment is too good to be true! Buy-to-let boom in the 90s I remember in nineties, running my slide rule over the gross rental yields […]
Final Rental Payment
Published on: 29th October 2015
Rental period confusion One of the most confusing aspects of letting out a property is calculating the final rent payment. What on the face of it seems a pretty straight forward matter is complicated by the fact that we are still adhering largely to a Roman system of measuring time e.g. the Roman calendar. This […]
Caveat Emptor /seller beware too
Published on: 23rd October 2015
Caveat emptor for the non-linguists means ‘Let the buyer beware’. Loosely translated: ‘watch your back when you buy a property, because if you miss anything – tough!’ Hence most of us employ a solicitor to trawl the legal ‘undergrowth’ to ensure that we don’t end up with a property ‘dog’. The minefield is particularly treacherous […]
Supervised accounts
Published on: 16th October 2015
Property Hawks Property Manager software is mainly designed for individual buy to let landlords to manage their own property portfolio. However, we do appreciate that some landlords using Property Manager may have property under shared or joint ownership. We also have a number of landlords coming to us because they would like their accountant or […]
A landlords jobs for winter
Published on: 8th October 2015
Here we go again. The leaves are turning a riot of oranges & reds before we descend headlong into the darkness of winter. I’m feeling smug though. I’ve managed to pull in the exterior decoration of one of my properties. This should keep the timber work water-tight for another 5 years or so. The sash […]
Landlords still on top
Published on: 1st October 2015
Landlords could be forgiven for feeling a little brow-beaten. Over the last 12 months, we have faced: Rent controls Landlords have avoided Labour’s proposed rent controls thanks to the surprise general election result. Although the electorate succeeded in seeing sense just in time, it came as warning; and the spectre of rent controls still looms […]
New Section 21 Notice for 2015
Published on: 24th September 2015
The Government have produced a new Section 21 Notice. We have updated the version of our free Section 21 Notice available to download using our free property management software accordingly. There are also some new rules and regulations surrounding Section 21 Notices which will come into force on 1st October 2015. Expert landlord lawyer, Rebecca […]
The loss of mortgage interest relief
Published on: 27th August 2015
A number of users have contacted us to share their concern over the proposed tax changes in the Budget that will limit and then remove the ability to off-set BTL mortgage interest payments against rental profits. One of our users, who understandably wishes to remain anonymous, has outlined how losing the ability to off-set mortgage […]
Landlord Boiler Insurance?
Published on: 14th August 2015
Is Landlords Boiler insurance worth it? Getting your boiler fixed can be costly for landlords. Anywhere from a minimum £60 call out fee to £350 if a landlords heat exchanger needs replacing. That is if a landlord can get someone out to fix it at all. If not a landlord’s tenants could be without hot […]
BTL Lending Criteria to Tighten
Published on: 13th August 2015
Landlords looking for a buy-to-let mortgage will face more restrictive lending criteria in the future. High street lenders are planning to put stricter checks in place to help head off a potential ‘buy-to-let boom’. The BTL lenders are keen to avoid government regulation of the BTL mortgage market; which remains largely free of Financial Conduct […]
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