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Latest Mortgage Figures Reveal A Soft Market
The latest Mortgage Trends Update from UK Finance reveals that the mortgage market is softening, with a decrease in the number of completed mortgages in September 2018 across the first…
HMO landlords be prepared
Landlords of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) faced tougher new restrictions on the standards of their let properties from the beginning of this month. The 1st October 2018 marked the…
More HMOs To Require Licences
More than 170,000 Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are to be drawn into the licensing regime operated by local authority housing departments, the Residential Landlords’ Association has estimated. Until now, only HMOs…
Government urged to stamp out housing taxes so young people can...
RICS (the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) is urging the Government to overhaul the housing tax system, including ending stamp duty on certain properties. By doing so, RICS say this…
Asking prices for UK homes falling reveals latest research
PropertyWire reports that asking prices in England and Wales were down 0.3% this month, whilst values were also down in Scotland. According to the latest figures from the Home.co.uk index,…
Calls for Government to stop ‘penalising’ BTL landlords
According to haart estate agents, the Government must start supporting landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) or risk seeing a decline in much needed rental property listings due to…
Expat UK landlords warned by the UK’s Land Registry Office over...
An article in Emigrate magazine is warning UK expats who have an investment property in the UK to be wary of property fraud. Almost four million British people live abroad…
Increase in the number of BTL landlords selling up
New data reveals a rise in the number of landlords selling up in April this year. According to ARLA Propertymark’s Private Rented Sector Report for April 2018, letting agents saw…
Landlords’ tax hikes hitting military personnel renting out their homes while...
‘Accidental landlord’ armed services personnel who rent their homes out while deployed abroad or elsewhere in the UK are being hit by the Government’s tax hikes on private rented housing…
Government introduces bill to double council tax on empty homes
The UK government is introducing legislation designed to bring empty homes back into use and tackle the housing crisis by allowing councils to raise the amount of tax they can…
Homeowners not allowed to decorate their properties unless they have permission
We reported last February how thousands of owners of new-build homes are being hit with unexpected costs when they go to buy the freehold (currently 1.4 million houses have been…
New Laws For Scottish Renters Gives More Security
Major changes to Scottish law came into effect on Friday (1st December) that have been described as a “new dawn” for private renters by Shelter Scotland. Anyone signing a tenancy from 1…
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