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Record 50,000 new tenants enter the UK buy-to-let market

Posted by discountlandlord 678 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let landlords tenants
Demand for rental accommodation reached record levels in the second quarter of the year. read more »
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Landlords struggle to make mortgage repayments

Posted by discountlandlord 679 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let landlords tenants
Four out of ten landlords admit that rents from tenants are barely covering their mortgage repayments and any increase in interest rates could lead t[...] read more »
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Poor inventories cost landlords £12 million a year

Posted by discountlandlord 679 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let landlords inventories
Badly-prepared inventories are costing the UKs buy-to-let sector as much as £12 million a year. read more »
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New house swap market

Posted by discountlandlord 690 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: landlords property market
Home swap has become a very popular idea among Britons. Indeed, especially for people living near major sport events, festivals or popular areas. read more »
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Britons throw away money by auto renewing their home insurance policy

Posted by discountlandlord 691 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: home insurance landlords
Britons could save money by looking around for cover when their home insurance policy come to an end, according to moneysupermarket.com insurance. read more »
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UK homeowners to insure their gardens

Posted by discountlandlord 692 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: home insurance homeowners landlords
According to Post Office home insurance: “UK homeowners spend more on home and garden items as summer approaches”. read more »
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Private landlords to slash rent in order to keep tenants

Posted by discountlandlord 693 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: landlords regulations tenants
Private landlords are facing to slash rents if they want to keep their current tenants because of large cutback on housing benefit by the Chancellor.[...] read more »
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Britons take less than 24 minutes to buy a house

Posted by discountlandlord 693 days ago, popular 692 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let property market
The average homebuyer spends just 21 minutes viewing a property before deciding to buy it, new research says. read more »
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Record of British buying property in Turkey

Posted by discountlandlord 696 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let home owners
According to the Land Registry “32,000 British buy to let insurance policyholders own property in Turkey.” read more »
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Buy–to-let market is facing the highest rent in Western Europe.

Posted by discountlandlord 697 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let landlords tenants
UK tenants face the highest rents in Western Europe, with London the second most expensive place to rent, research has showed. read more »
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Private evictions increasing during the recession

Posted by discountlandlord 699 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let landlords tenants
According to legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell, private landlords filed 23% more repossession claims against their tenants during the credit[...] read more »
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New tenants` guide for students

Posted by discountlandlord 699 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let students tenants
The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) and the National Union of Students (NUS) have produced a tenants’ guide containing recommendation for students m[...] read more »
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London housing market crisis

Posted by discountlandlord 700 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let tenants housing benefits
According to the Guardian: “In capping housing benefits, the chancellor blamed the housing benefit bill on greedy families who are looking to net ove[...] read more »
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The influence of the Olympics on the Buy-To-Let Market

Posted by discountlandlord 700 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let olympics
With just two years to go until the official start of the 2012 Olympic Games, the transformation of south east London has started already. read more »
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Emergency budget and Capital Gains Tax

Posted by discountlandlord 704 days ago (http://www.discountlandlord.co.uk)
Category: Business | Tags: buy-to-let government landlords
22th June 2010 is the date of the emergency budget announced by the new government and many in the property market industry are concerned about how n[...] read more »
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