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It’s official – tenants are facing higher rents…
Rent Increases:
Tenants higher facing higher rents because the demand...
High Street landlords facing increasingly aggressive rents stance
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Before we go into the
details please allow me to point out that Simon...
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Tenants’ Fee Ban implemented in Wales
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Following on from the tenants’ fee ban...
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It’s official – tenants are facing higher rents…
Rent Increases:
Tenants higher facing higher rents because the demand...
High Street landlords facing increasingly aggressive rents stance
Commercial Rents:
High street
landlords are feeling the pain as...
Student accommodation provider in takeover bid
Student Lettings:
Student housing
provider Unite is set to acquire...
More landlords investing in HMOs
HMOs:
Given
the squeeze on buy-to-let landlords’ profits, landlords are...
Manchester is a “test-bed” for build-to-rent apartments
Build to Rent:
In the Manchester and Salford area there...
“Incoherent”, the Government’s approach to rental market says expert
Renting Policy:
Perhaps not surprising with all that’s going on...
Landlords now charging rents for pets…
Lets for Pets:
The introduction of the tenant fees ban...
Fusion appointed as exclusive tax partner to LandlordZONE
Fusion Consulting, a
leading tax advisory firm in London and winner of the “Best...
Labour needs to re-think its sequestration proposals
Right-to-buy:
Right-to-buy was a main plank in the Thatcher era...
Lack of Enforcement affecting PRS Standards
Enforcement:
Landlords are well aware of the blizzard of new...
Tenants’ Fee Ban implemented in Wales
Tenants’ Fee Ban:
Following on from the tenants’ fee ban...
Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance reaches final stages of the Insurance Choice Awards
After 10 weeks of voting, Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance
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Politicians need to focus on consumers when it comes to housing
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The Threat of Rent Control Rears its Ugly Head again!
Rent control poses a real threat to the UK's buy to let landlords.
Scottish Labour are...
Why the Impact of the Tenant Fee Ban is Actually Positive for Landlords
Jonathan Werth, Managing
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Section 21 to be banned in the UK
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Winter Proof Your Rental Properties
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My tenant left without telling me…
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Hamilton Fraser’s Property Podcast – Make Landlording Great Again in 2019
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Refinancing buy to let properties – Section 24 issues
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“It was an accident!” – How can you prepare your property for accidental damage?
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Across the board fall in fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages…
BTL Mortgages:
Research out today
(Thursday, September 12th) from online...
Fusion appointed as exclusive tax partner to LandlordZONE
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have been named finalists...
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