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.
How to set up an HMO
In the private rental sector, Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) occupy a special part of the market, which is increasingly attractive to landlords. Medway Property News, for example, has produced…
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…
UK tourism boosts demands for holiday lets
Nearly 30 million foreign visitors come to the UK each year, said Landlord News on the 24th of August 2018, in a reminder about the importance of arranging adequate holiday let insurance if you…
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,…
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…
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