For every Zig, there’s a Zag. For every Bubble, there’s a Burst. And, unfortunately, that’s right where we are now folks: inside that popped bubble, with nothing to sustain us on the near horizon. For those of you who have read my Landlord’s Survival Guide’ you will see – written eighteen months ago – a [...]
Oliver Romain of Landlord Magazine reports exclusively from the launch of the Rugg review by Dave Rhodes and Julie. Major reforms of the Private Rented Sector(PRS), including a drivers’ style licence for landlords and new tax breaks, have been recommended in a comprehensive review of the PRS. The independent, government commissioned review published by Julie [...]
“The rent of a house may be distinguished into two parts, of which the one may very properly be called the Building-rent; the other is commonly called the Ground-rent.” Adam Smith “An Inquiry into the Nature And Causes of the Wealth of Nations” 1776 Ground Rents are often complex and can be quite confusing to [...]
Andrew Harris, Gas Services Manager from Aspect Maintenance, advises that now winter has set in, landlords should be getting their boilers checked… Now that the cold snap has begun, homeowners and property tenants have begun to turn their boilers on; boilers that have been sitting dormant for months. Break downs inevitably occur, and, companies like [...]
This article has been contributed by Henry Davis of International Property.ie International Property.ie is run and managed by Henry Davis MBA. He has been developing Liverpool property since 1989, as well as property in Manchester, London and Eastern Europe Make life easy. 1. Make life easy, if buying an overseas property for letting, choose square [...]
The “Guardianâ€? newspaper over the last two Saturdays has let its readers loose with a string of mostly anti buy-to-let letters – and London’s “Metroâ€? free paper was at it too yesterday. But landlords should take note because some of the Guardian letter writers’ comments were fair and needed making. In particular, their attack on [...]
If you’re a landlord, or in any other business for that matter, sooner or later someone will owe you money. It also works the other way around, sometimes landlords owe their tenants! Whilst we must sympathise with those in financial difficulties, it’s often futile to prolong the agony; the banks and mortgage companies certainly don’t, [...]
=========================================================== The LandlordZONE Journal – “LandlordLOG� November 2005 – Issue 003 =========================================================== The UK Housing Act 2004 involves one of the biggest changes for landlords for many years and most of its provisions will be enacted in April 2006. We continue this series on the Housing Act with a primer on the new Housing Health [...]
Copyright LandlordZONE May 2005 It is important for landlords, and for tenants too, to “know the score”, in other words, to know about Credit Scores and to know how to check your own credit files. Increasingly, landlords and agents do credit checks and referencing on their prospective tenants, moving away from the traditional “gut feel” [...]
Who moved them goalposts? As you assure yourself that you have dotted all the “I’s� and crossed every singe last “T� for the completion of the lease on a new office, the solicitor calls and asks nonchalantly “Can you send over the Lease Plan?� the deafening 3 second silence on the your end of the [...]
