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TIPS ON BEING A STUDENT LANDLORD
Tips on being a student landlord Many landlords are first introduced to landlording as students. I remember in the 80’s watching from my bedroom window as the landlord turned up in his Porsche; collected the rent cheques and then went. I thought that’s the life for me! Since becoming a landlord I have dabbled with […]
PARAGON ON THE ROCKS?
In light of the announcement last week by Paragon the UK’s largest specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider that it is having the same funding issues that hit the Northern Rock; we ask the question “what happens to buy-to-let landlords if their mortgage company were to go bust?” Buy-to-let mortgages not like they were The recent events […]
TRANSPORT OPPORTUNITIES
David Lawrenson, the buy-to-let and property investment expert gives his personal views on whether the new high speed transport link from the Channel Tunnel and whether there are potential investment opportunities for buy-to-let landlords. From Ebbsfleet in North West Kent, Paris is just two hours and a bit away – and it looks on the […]
NEW ALTERNATIVE TO TDS
Those landlords that have been taking a deposit from their tenant since 6th April 07 should know that they need to use either the “custodial” scheme where a third party holds the deposit or one of the two “insurance” backed schemes allowing the landlord to hold it. A landlord also has to tell tenants which […]
MANAGING MADE EASY – PT3
One of the reasons that Property Hawk came about was to help make a landlord’s life a little easier by providing FREE software with which a landlord is able to administer the day to day responsibilities of running their lettings business. Many landlords have visited the Property Hawk website to collect our FREE tenancy agreement […]
NEW BUILD OPPORTUNITIES
I have spent the last year or so warning landlords & especially newbie landlords against the perils of being caught by the allure of off-plan marketers selling sexy new city centre properties. It therefore might appear hypocritical to now promote the concept of buying new build property. However, there are circumstances when new residential properties […]
LANDLORDS SHOULD WRITE A WILL
It all sounds a bit morbid. However, landlords being high net worth individuals need to consider what happens to their property investment assets when the day finally comes and they no longer are around. What happens if a landlord gets hit by a bus? God forbid what would happen if one day a landlord stepped […]
A TENANT GOES AWOL
In many ways it’s the landlord’s nightmare. You as the landlord turn up one morning unexpectedly and there it is; your buy-to-let property, empty and abandoned like the ‘Mary Celeste’. With any luck the tenant has just removed themselves and their possessions and not any of your residential investment property. Unfortunately, I was not so […]
BUY TO LET MORTGAGES
The buy-to-let mortgage industry has gone from nothing in 1997 to an industry that in the first 6 months of this year saw loans being taken out of £21.2 billion. The stock of buy-to-let loans taken out is now £108 billion equating to 10% of all mortgage balances. The good news The good news for […]
THE FUTURE OF BUY TO LET
The fact is that the future prospects for buy-to-let lie largely in the hands of the politicians. Not because they might implement penal tax charges on landlords as had been feared by removing the ability for landlords to offset the interest on their buy-to-let loans against rental income when calculating their rental businesses profits; or […]
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