Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/Jan12/index.html Editorial: The ongoing recession and the squeeze on mortgage lending are producing something of a bonanza for cash-rich landlords – those able to secure low interest mortgages with a good deposit. If you’re careful you can pick-up good properties at bargain basement prices, whilst being virtually guaranteed [...]
Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/Dec11/index.html Editorial: In these times of great economic uncertainty, coupled with the hardships of the approaching winter weather, landlords need more trouble like a hole in the head. So paying attention to good property management: fire precautions, the subject of this Newsletter, freezing pipes and damp / condesation [...]
Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/Sept11/index.html Editorial: Whilst the residential lettings market is holding up very well, with record rental demand in some areas, it’s a different story with commercial. The VAT rise this year, a threat of future inflation, talks of interest rates rising, lack of consumer confidence, rising unemployment, falling house [...]
Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/NovDec10/index.html Editorial: The future is impossible to predict and more often than not forecasters get it wrong, but there seem to me some obvious factors which will have an impact on renting in the future: (1) structural changes to the jobs market (2) rising tuition fees, and (3) [...]
Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/SeptOct10/index.html Editorial: Looks like we’re going through another period of uncertainty, which is never good for markets. Cuts on the way, and we will know a lot more about these and their projected impact over the next 4 years, on the 20th of October. The banks are not [...]
Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/MayJune10/index.html Editorial: Landlords can look forward to operating their businesses under a new coalition government regime, which is likely to be very different. Whether this changes things for the better remains to be seen, but so far the signs are quite good. We’ve been saying for some time [...]
Avoid the Voids Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/Apr10/index.html Editorial: Have the days of the amateur landlord really come to an end? Well, it’s certainly more difficult than it was to make landlording profitable, but it’s by no means impossible. Being in one of the few remaining “cottage industries” – and likely to [...]
Sound Proofing for Landlords Download the Full Newsletter Digital Book version: http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/digital-book/index.html Editorial: We face uncertain times ahead, but there is one thing we can all be absolutely certain about: with national debt around £1,000 billion and rising, for at least the next four years, taxes will increase for everyone. If we are to believe [...]
Pest Control for Landlords Download the Full Newsletter Editorial: As the government publish yet another report into the Private Rented Sector (PRS), this time by the Treasury (Investment in the UK private rented sector Feb 2010), it would seem obvious from reading it that they are looking to the sector to give much needed relief [...]
Damp, Condensation and Mould – How to Deal with it! Download the Full Newsletter December 2009 As we near the year-end and enter the quiet season for landlords, it’s perhaps time to reflect on what’s happened over the last 12 months. Despite going through the worst recession since the 1930s the lettings market has held [...]
