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.
Landlords and evictions
Have your tenants fallen behind with the rent, are they making a nuisance of themselves with neighbours, have they breached the terms of their tenancy agreement in any other way,…
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…
Security measures for your home
A very high percentage of burglaries are what might be termed “opportunist crimes”. That means essentially that the burglars have seen what may be a very short-term and easy opportunity,…
Students: Don’t forget to insure your contents!
You’ve probably enjoyed a long, hot summer abroad – or even at home this exceptionally hot British summer – and now September beckons you back to university or an exciting…
The cost of home insurance
After the drought comes the deluge – that is a frequent pattern of English summers and this year it is expected to be an exceptionally long, hot spell – which…
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…
Putting your home on Airbnb this Summer? Insurance need to know
You might not have your sights set on the £12 million or so rental income made by one landlord from Airbnb lettings (reported by the Independent newspaper on the 10th…
Landlords moving in to HMOs
Demand for affordable, shared accommodation is high, and rates of return for landlords are high. So it may be little wonder that more and more landlords are diversifying their let…
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…
Going on an extended holiday or business trip? Then don’t forget...
Have you finally had enough of cowering away this winter from assorted “beasts from the East”? Does a new financial year beckon you towards important business meetings and marketing campaigns…
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