Once they’ve acquired a property and made it suitable for living in, a landlord’s role is all plain sailing from there on. It’s just collecting monthly instalments of rent for a living, right? Take the blinkers off and it actually requires much, much more than that, which is why property owners outsource some of their [...]
As a landlord, it is unlikely you are going to directly benefit yourself from the heat and hot water performance of your boiler but that doesn’t mean you should base your choice on the price alone. It can be beneficial as a landlord to carefully consider the boiler model that you invest in for your [...]
Problem tenants can be the cause of a substantial amount of stress, and require further care so to avoid being accused of harassment. As a landlord you must approach a problem tenant professionally and in accordance with the law, keeping in mind that you are not in a social setting but instead working as the [...]
There has been plenty of news around about first-time buyers having trouble getting themselves onto the property ladder and it seems as though this is having a negative impact on the housing market as a whole. The Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) has put out some research they did about the increased number of [...]
With more and more first time buyers struggling to get onto the property ladder. There has been an increase in people looking for rental properties. This has fuelled the increase in Buy to Let Mortgage borrowing in the third quarter of 2011 to 34’500, an increase of 16 percent on the previous quarter and an [...]
For a lot of landlords, there seems little point in paying an expensive high streetletting agent, what with the talk of the high demand for rental properties by tenants. Often, the high street letting agents will charge higher fees for getting your properties let compared to online letting agents. This is mainly due to the [...]
This winter proofing your rental property guide is for tenants who are currently renting a property. By making sure you look after the property over the winter months, the property will be less likely to suffer from any problems during the winter months and mean you have less reason to bother the landlord or management [...]
I read an article on Landlordzone.co.uk about how commercial property landlords are now facing a rise in tenant disputes and due to this, they are having to foot expensive legal costs amounting to millions a year, according to Cadogan Keelan Westall, the UK’s leading property insurance specialists. Some of the common legal problems they say [...]
