Knowledge Base
Our Knowledge Base is full of helpful blog articles, guides and checklists to help you through your property insurance journey. There are also in-depth guides to key categories, including unoccupied house insurance.
Is your second home properly insured during the crisis?
With the sunnier days and lighter evenings, you are probably missing the chance of getting away to your second home. Like the former chief medical officer for Scotland, though, you know…
Right To Rent Checks Eased
To help reduce the administrative burden for landlords and to limit their exposure to the coronavirus, the need for Right to Rent checks are being eased, reports Landlord Today. The Right to…
HMOs & Legislations for Landlords
What is a HMO? A House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is a house-sharing arrangement. They include tenants renting on a room by room basis. They could be sharing essential facilities…
Flooding: How It Affects Your Insurance
Floods and Storms The winter season never seems to end in the UK. With it, comes the worry about flooding to property in the wake of storms, and heavy rain….
Inheriting a Property? Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Inheritance...
Are you in the 36% of brits set to inherit a property? A survey found that 36% of Brits will be inheriting a property, equivalent to 18.64 million people. The…
Maximising Your Profits As A Buy To Let Landlord
For landlords who are struggling to make a success of their buy to let business, Which? magazine on the 23rd of February suggests some ways in which they might boost their profits: Invest…
Airbnb and your insurance
It has become the go-to solution for many landlords looking to fill short-term tenancies that may be available, but has the spread of sites such as Airbnb grown out of…
Tenants Who Receive Universal Credit
The new six-in-one benefits scheme known as universal credit continues to be rolled out across the country. It replaces the method by which your tenants may have previously received housing…
Landlords and disabled tenants
March the 16th is Disabled Access Day in the UK – a day specifically marked for raising awareness about the needs of the disabled to a long list of buildings and amenities, including…
Voids – and Rents – Down
February is likely to have been met with a mixture of relief and concern by landlords. The good news was that the length of voids appears to have gone down,…
MIND YOUR MEES
If you’ve not yet brought your let property into line with the Domestic Minimum Energy Efficiency (MEES) Regulations, make sure to do so by the 1st of April. That is…
Landlords’ legislation for 2020
Another year, another raft of new legislation for landlords. Whether you are a seasoned hand or new to your role as a landlord, it can be difficult keeping up with…
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