Claims for Hosuing Benefit – help your tenants to pay the rent Download the Full Newsletter Editorial: Following one of the UK’s longest periods of sustained economic growth, encouraging too much borrowing, it seems ironic that our government is hell bent on record borrowing (£175 billion this year) to try and get us out of [...]
Selecting Your Tenants – the most important task for landlords and agents? Download the Full Newsletter Editorial: Vince Cable in his new book—”The Storm: The world Economic Crisis and What it Means”—quotes an old Arabic saying: “Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right” He [...]
Can Training Make a Difference? Download the Full Newsletter Despite reports of renewed sales surges and actual rises in property prices, overall prices are still on the decline, rents are coming under pressure and the UK economy is in a pretty dire state. Way over-optimistic government growth forecasts from last year will need to be [...]
Let’s Hear it for the Letting Agent Download the Full Newsletter As the economic troubles persist, and from all indications this week it will be some time before all this is over, landlords will increasingly have to deal with tenancy problems. Despite a relatively buoyant lettings market (certainly compared to sales), increasing redundancies, fewer temporary [...]
December 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE Newsletter. Motivational Coaching & Property Investment Download the Full Newsletter The Credit Crunch has brought home to us important lessons about asset values, how they can be over-inflated and how rapidly these can be destroyed. With commercial property values likely to decline by 50% peak to trough, and likewise [...]
November 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE Newsletter. Energy Performance Certificate Review Download the Full Newsletter Welcome to the November 2008 Issue, I don’t need to tell you things are bad—the 1.5% rate cut says it all and although the feeling is that the banking situation is solved, this cannot be taken for granted. The banks [...]
Welcome to the October 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE Newsletter. Fire Safety Order – October 2008 Issue 33 Download the Full Newsletter Welcome to the October 2008 Issue, We’re living through some unprecedented and scary times: if you are a landlord or running a business it’s now about survival. Regardless of whether your properties are [...]
Welcome to the July 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE Newsletter. Problem Tenants – August 2008 Issue 32 Download the Full Newsletter It’s hard to believe it’s 12 months since the long running boom in the housing market came to an abrupt halt. The “credit crunch” suddenly froze the wholesale money markets around the world, practically [...]
Welcome to the July 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE Newsletter. Problem Tenants – July 2008 Issue 31 Download the Full Newsletter With the downturn in both residential and commercial property appearing to be getting worse, there’s now a serious risk that the UK economy could enter recession territory. Amid growing concerns from one report after [...]
Welcome to the June 2008 edition of the LandlordZONE® Newsletter. Conveyancing, HIPS & EPCs – June 2008 Issue 30 Download the Full Newsletter As I write this, mid-June 2008, things look pretty gloomy. The credit crunch is putting the banks under extreme pressure (we still don’t know the full story) leading to a contracting property [...]
