Results for tag "Buy-to-let"
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A First Time Landlords Guide to Renting
Becoming a landlord can be a difficult process, leaving first time and accidental landlords asking what does a landlord need to do before renting. Understanding how to evaluate a rental opportunity...
March 23, 2021
Government Urged to Tackle Rogue Landlords
The National Residential Landlords association has urged the UK government to address its failure to effectively address the impact of rogue landlords across the private rental sector. The governme...
August 25, 2021
How to Protect Your Rental Property
It goes without saying that when a landlord enters into a new rental agreement they expect to return to the property come the end of the fixed term, without seeing their investment be left in a sta...
August 18, 2021
Rent Cuts See Landlord Profits Fall
Research carried out by specialists in savings and lending, Shawbrook Bank have revealed the extent to which payment holidays and rent reductions have impacted rental income over the lockdown...
August 10, 2021
Buy to Let Mortgages Lead the Charge in Energy Efficiency
Recent months have seen renewed belief in the rental market as landlords are now able to take advantage of more buy to let mortgage options since the beginning of the COVID virus outbreak. Consumer...
July 22, 2021
Selling a Rental Property: A Landlord’s Guide
Similarly to finding new tenants, the sale of a rental property is no small feat. Whilst many say that selling a property can easily become one of the more stressful aspects of life here we offer a...
June 14, 2021
What Taxes Do Landlords Need to Pay?
Whilst there are many variables that will ultimately dictate the amount of tax a landlord will be required to pay, there are also numerous exemptions that rental property owners can take advantage ...
May 04, 2021
How Much Profit Can You Make From Renting?
Naturally, landlords want to make a return on their rental property investment, but unfortunately it isn’t just as simple as collecting rental payments each month. Especially ringing true for...
April 29, 2021
Choosing Furniture for Your Rental Property
Furnished or unfurnished, both can offer drastically different experiences for landlords and renters alike, but how do you furnish a rental property? We are here to dispel the common misconceptions...
April 14, 2021
What Insurance Do You Need as a Landlord?
In many ways landlord insurance policies are not too dissimilar to your everyday home insurance cover; however the important distinction between the two is that landlord insurance is intended to pr...
April 06, 2021
How to Attract Good Tenants to Your Rental Property?
Knowing how to attract good tenants to your rental property is the ambition of many a landlord. After all, having a solid relationship with your tenants could potentially lead to a longer tenancy p...
March 10, 2021
Self Storage: A Guide For Landlords
Self storage is one often overlooked factor which, if approached correctly, means landlords can offer a secure space in which to store old furniture, belongings, bits and bobs, and anything other o...
March 04, 2021
Retired Renters: A Guide For Landlords
The number of retired renters is, surprisingly, on the rise. If you’re a landlord who is currently putting the finishing touches to a property and is about to list it via an online property agent, ...
March 04, 2021
Buy-To-Let Loans For Auctioned Properties
If you’re looking to make a prudent investment when it comes to property, one very smart way to do it via a property auction. Although this can often net you a steal, the times frames needed to com...
March 04, 2021
Written Tenancies: A Landlord’s Guide
Although it is possible in some cases that a landlord may rent a property verbally and the oral contract for tenanting a property can be legally biding, it is certainly not advisable to do so. As o...
March 04, 2021
Has My Property Increased In Value? A Landlord’s Guide
Today’s property market can be somewhat unpredictable. During the third quarter of 2017, house prices skyrocketed, with many locations in the North of the country as well as the Midlands increasing...
March 04, 2021
Houses vs. Flats: A Landlord’s Investment Guide
Over recent years, there has been a charted rise in landlords seeking to expand their property portfolios. If you are one of them and you have already listed properties via an online property agent...
March 04, 2021
Buy To Let Mortgages: A Landlords’s Guide
Over the last few years, and thanks in part to the changing landscape of property investment, the entire market is generating less profit. Despite the role of a landlord being an increasingly tough...
March 04, 2021
Refusing Entry to a Rental Property
Whilst new landlords may expect to enter any property in their rental portfolio at any time they see fit, this is not the case. But, with mid-term inspections, urgent repairs and property viewings ...
March 04, 2021
Illegal Sublets: What To Look Out For
Over the last few years, websites like Airbnb have given rise to short term rentals, allowing people to let rooms in their properties, or even whole properties for profit. A lot of this is often do...
March 04, 2021
Selective Landlord Licensing Schemes: The Lowdown
There has been astronomical growth within the Private Rental Sector over the last 20 years. One big change that’s been ushered in is the government’s attempt to curb issues like anti social behavio...
March 04, 2021
Planning Your Buy-to-Let Mortgage
If you’re thinking of investing in property, a buy-to-let mortgage could help give you a substantial return on your investment. However, when choosing both your property and your mortgage, it’s imp...
March 04, 2021
Selling Your Rental Property: Tenanted or Not?
If time has come where you’re thinking of selling your property, it’s important to decide whether you sell it in situ via an online property agent, with your tenants still there, or evict them firs...
March 04, 2021
Are New Build Homes Better For Buy-to-Lets?
If you’re a landlord who is scouting for new properties to invest in via an online property agent for a buy-to-let mortgage, then it’s doubtless you’ve considered all the types of house which are a...
March 03, 2021
Dealing With Tenant Abandonment
ContentsWhat Is Tenant Abandonment? Why Does Tenant Abandonment Happen? What Is an Abandonment Notice? What Is the Effect of Notice of Abandonment? Can I Change the Locks if a Tenant Has Left? W...
March 02, 2021
A Guide to Becoming a Landlord
Despite the widespread financial uncertainty witnessed in recent months, landlords and the buy to let market seem undeterred, with the number of buy to let landlords increasing by 83% in 2021 alone...
February 22, 2021
Tax for Landlords
Landlords are taxed on money they receive in rental income. This means all the money they receive in rental income, not just the profits (ie monthly rental income minus their buy-to-...
February 19, 2021
Investing in Property? Read this
Property has always been a good asset class to invest in. Over the long-term it tends to be more profitable than the likes of stocks and shares. As a landlord you’ll receive a monthly income, while...
February 19, 2021
What Do New Landlords Need to Know?
With the NRLA stating that around 36% of its polled landlords are ready to leave the sector on the back of tremendous losses during COVID, alongside record demand for rental properties a path has b...
February 19, 2021
Why Your Tenants are Older These Days
Have you been fielding enquiries for your rental from a lot of middle-aged potential tenants these days? Certainly, the difficulty with affording property means many older peopl...
February 19, 2021
How Do I Find a Good Buy to Let?
For many buy to let properties can be an appealing investment, with the promise of high returns through consistent rental income. But, with letting fees, mortgage interest payments, repairs and oth...
February 19, 2021
What Tenants Want in a Rental Property
All landlords hope to find their ideal tenant quickly, but knowing what tenants want in a rental property goes a long way in not only choosing a future buy to let opportunity, but the tailoring of ...
February 18, 2021
Why Let Out Your Property Online?
In the dim and not-so-distant past, the only way to let out your property was to put it in the hands of a high street letting agent. Believe it or not, that was only around a decade ago...
February 18, 2021
Buy to Let: Old or New Property?
So, you’ve decided you definitely want to purchase a buy to let. Good idea – provided you have worked out your sums and already thought carefully about your target market. ...
February 17, 2021
How Do Buy to Let Mortgages Work?
In the last 12 months alone landlords have taken out over 200,000 buy to let mortgages. With this borrowing being valued at over £36 billion in value, we ask what is a buy to let mortgage and how d...
February 17, 2021
Virtual Viewings for Tenants
Looking for a rental property in the UK but caught up in coronavirus lockdown? There have been many lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 and depending on when you’re reading this, you...
February 17, 2021
Converting a Residential Mortgage to Buy to Let
ContentsWhat Is a Buy to Let Mortgage? Can You Change From a Regular Mortgage to Buy to Let? What Happens if You Don’t Change Your Mortgage to Buy to Let?What Is the Difference Between Bu...
February 17, 2021
What Is the Best Month to Rent Out Your Property
If you’re new to buy to let and keen to rent out your property, should you just go ahead and do it? Or, should you consider whether it might be more opportune to wait a little while? If...
February 17, 2021
Top Tips For Renting Your Property
Renting your property to tenants for the first time can be daunting. Owners may be ready to dive into the private rental sector, but with the number of rules and regulations landlords must abide by...
February 16, 2021
How Much Money Do You Need to Buy a Buy to Let?
ContentsDo You Need a Bigger Deposit for a Buy to Let Mortgage? How Much Is an Arrangement Free on a Buy to Let?Can I Buy to Let as a First-Time Buyer? Buy to Let mortgage tax relief ...
February 16, 2021
Should You Let Your Property Furnished or Unfurnished?
Alongside how much landlords should charge their tenants for rent, whether or not to let out a rental property in a furnished or unfurnished state is a universal apprehensi...
February 16, 2021
What Will You Charge for Rent?
Getting the right rental price for your buy-to-let property is crucial. Too high and you won’t attract tenants, resulting in awful void periods; too low and you may not recoup your investment. ...
February 15, 2021
All You Need To Know About Renting to Students
Renting to students can prove very lucrative these days – especially if you have a house with more than one bedroom. Get the right location ie near a university or college and within walk...
February 15, 2021
What Does a Landlord Need to Do Before Renting
Preparing a property for a tenancy is a universal task shared by all landlords, regales of experience. Whilst after numerous years every owner will find their foo...
February 15, 2021
How Do I Prepare for a Rental Viewing as a Tenant?
It is understandable that in the excitement of finding your dream home tenants can all too easily rush the process of renting a property, forgetting key considerations before putting their name to ...
February 15, 2021
Buying a New Build as an Investment
The initial months of 2021 saw the greatest number of new homes be built in over two decades with approximately 50,000 new properties being built. With recent months seeing a slight omiss...
February 12, 2021
Renting for Millennials and Students
Despite the shutdown of the property market earlier this year, the private rental market is still alive and kicking. And, according to property analysts it looks like it’s going to continue to thri...
February 12, 2021
How to Work Out Rental Yield
When choosing a rental property, owners will naturally be looking to make a return on their buy to let investment. This is commonly achieved through establishing a high rent, bu...
February 12, 2021
Increasing Rent as a Private Landlord
Over recent months the demand for rental opportunities across the Uk has skyrocketed, seeing void periods fall by the wayside as landlords are finding tenants in record time. For renters, howe...
February 12, 2021
Online vs High Street Letting Agents
For those that are new to letting a property, having a good letting agent can make all the difference in the search for your first tenants and securing initial rental income. Make the wrong choice ...
February 12, 2021
How Do I Attract Tenants to My Property?
For both new and experienced landlords, finding tenants is certainly no easy task. Many owners choose to turn to high street or online letting agents to help them attract quality tenants, but ...
February 12, 2021
How Much Do Landlords In London Owe Through Borrowing?
Despite a raft of changes to landlord tax relief in recent years, buy to let investing is still alive and kicking. That’s especially the case in some of the UK’s largest cities, such as Manchester,...
February 12, 2021
Landlords and Capital Gains Tax for Rental Properties
As a landlord you will gain passive monthly rental income from your buy to let and capital appreciation as the years flit pas; it’s exactly this capital appr...
February 12, 2021
How to Choose a Great Letting Agent
It is natural for first-time and accidental landlords to want to have their initial steps into the private rental sector guided by the hand of a professional letting agent. With mountains of regula...
February 12, 2021
Best Buy-to-Let Hotspots in London
ContentsWhat Are the Best Areas in London for Property Investors?Canning Town, East London Croydon, South London Hounslow, West London Colindale, North London West Drayton, West...
February 11, 2021
What Do I Need to Know Before Becoming a Landlord?
ContentsWhat to Consider Before Becoming a LandlordDo You Need a License to Be a Landlord?Is Landlord Insurance Worth Having?Do I Need a Buy to Let Mortgage?Does the Property Comply With Safety Con...
February 11, 2021
UK Buy to Let Popular for Overseas Buyers
UK property is proving an attractive choice to overseas buyers – thanks to low interest rates and the current Stamp Duty Holiday. But the clever foreign investors and UK ...
February 11, 2021
Securing a Landlord Mortgage
A ‘landlord’ or Buy to Let mortgage differs considerably from a standard residential mortgage. For a start it is more difficult to obtain and, secondly, it will also prove more expensive. ...
February 11, 2021
Are You Putting Off Tenants With High Upfront Costs?
Naturally, landlords will wish to see maximal rental income to ensure returns on their buy to let investment, however with the private rental sector emerging from the pandemic, leaving&nb...
February 11, 2021