Archives: Magazines
B2L RATES EQUAL RESIDENTIAL
‘Times are a changin’ The Financial Times this weekend reported that borrowing rates available to landlords for the first time were as cheap as main stream residential mortgages. This is in response to banks and building societies increasingly viewing buy-to-let as low risk lending. For many years financial institutions held the view that because landlords […]
How to Manage.
MANAGING MADE EASIER Here at Property Hawk we realise that managing property isn’t always straight forward. That is why we have developed our Free property management software to help landlords with the process. What we will do over the next few months is give tips on how it can be used to make managing your […]
Do Your Sums
It’s important You would think somebody mad if they stuck their savings into a building society account without finding out what interest rate they were earning was first. Most investors, even novice investors will do some basic investigation into the rates even if they are only investing a couple of hundred pounds. This basic financial […]
Should I join a Landlord Association?
Investors who have recently become landlords as well as those that have been doing it for some time will eventually come across one of the ‘trade’ landlord associations that claim to represent their interests. The main landlord bodies that exist in the UK are: RLA (Residential Landlords Association) NLA (National Landlords Association) What do […]
Property as a Pension?
Many property investors have bought into property over the last few years as a way of providing for or supplementing their pension. This is understandable given the turbulence over recent years in the Stock Market to which many pensions are linked and also the demise of the final salary pension where companies were responsible for […]
Landlords Welcome! NEW SITE
Dedicated to UK landlords Welcome to Property Hawk, the only FREE site dedicated to UK landlords. For those who have visited the site before you will hopefully notice a big improvement in the way it looks. We’ve listened! Our design team has spent the last few months listening to our users to make the site […]
Direct Property Investment Alternatives
‘A REIT good investment!’ Landlords or investors that wish to increase the size of their property investments without taking on the additional management responsibility of purchasing another property could be offered an alternative under a new investment product to be offered by Invista, the former property management arm of HBOS. Invista is looking at launching […]
5 ways for landlords to cut costs.
You couldn’t miss the headlines last week announcing the Bank of England’s decision to raise the base rate for the 3rd time in 5 months to 5.25%. This takes it to the highest level in almost six years. All this is having a very painful effect on landlord’s cash-flows. Each 0.25% rise increasing interest rates […]
Ten predictions for 2007
2007 will be a year of continuing trends, rather than dramatic changes in the buy-to-let world. A stable UK and global economy should mean pretty much more of the same for most of us. However, within the general environment of steady house price rises and general strong tenant demand there will be a number of […]
Tax calculations it’s a doddle
It’s that time of year again. You are stuffed with turkey but in the back of you mind is the looming tax return deadline and automatic £100 fine for those that fail to submit by the 31st January. The good news is that calculating the Land and Property section relating to your rental business is […]
FREE
Legal Updates
Join 160,000+
Registered Landlords
