How to get property portfolio insurance the right way
The more properties you add to your portfolio, the more onerous and complicated becomes the administration of your buy to let business.
13 February 2018
Mixed commercial and residential building insurance explained
Members of Parliament and the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) share the view that flats above high street shops offer a huge potential in helping to solve the nation’s current housing shortage...
25 January 2018
Property hotspots for 2018
If 2018 is the year in which you are looking to invest in property for the first time, or to expand an existing portfolio, location remains the priority concern.Your choice of location is likely to be
11 January 2018
UK landlords among the poorest in Europe
At the labour party conference this September, leader Jeremy Corbyn revived the prospect of rent controls in as a tactic for reducing spiralling rents in the private sector.
12 October 2017
Tough new lending rules for portfolio landlords
The purchase of buy to let property is invariably made with the help of a buy to let mortgage. The essential principles on which that lending is made are quite different to those for owner occupiers..
22 September 2017
How to boost your rental income
Your buy to let property is a business – a business that relies on the income you receive from your tenants. An underlying and fundamental goal of your business, therefore, is to maximise your rental
04 September 2017
Tenants and AirBnB – what do you as a landlord need to know?
The sudden popularity of AirBnB is unlikely to have escaped your notice. The principles are very simple. Any home with a room to spare, or accommodation that is temporarily vacated altogether...
01 September 2017
Thinking of incorporation?
In the past few years, the tax regime under which landlords are operating has become ever more onerous – not least the steady erosion of the buy to let investor’s ability to claim tax relief...
08 August 2017
The benefits of landlord home emergency cover
The online legal advice centre, Compact Law, reminds landlords that they have a legal responsibility for ensuring that their let property is fit to be lived in and that repairs are carried out wheneve
10 May 2017
The tax free Rent a Room limit
Every little helps when the country faces a housing shortage of current proportions – especially when it comes to the demand for homes to rent.
17 April 2017
UK property hotspots revealed
Have you ever wondered just where in the country homes are selling faster than anywhere else?
10 April 2017
Landlords: should you incorporate?
Many landlords enter the buy to let market through the purchase of investment property or properties in their own name. Increasingly, however, landlords are looking to form limited liability companies
22 February 2017
