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Tips

Are You at Risk from the New Tenancy Rules

The new tenancy legislation affecting rental thresholds is now in effect, from the 1st of October. The rental threshold for assured short-hold tenancies (ASTs) has just been raised from £25,000 in annual rents payable (equivalent to £2,083.33 per month) to £100,000 per annum (or £8,333.33 per month). If you are a landlord with a portfolio [...]

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Tips for Letting Your Property

More properties may enter the lettings market in the coming months. A large part of this will come from homeowners who are now having problems meeting their mortgage payments. A recent More Than Business survey reported that owners of at least 1.75 million properties in the UK have indicated their willingness to let their homes [...]

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Aspects of Home Mortgage Modification

You would have attempted several times to keep track of your home mortgage and hence make payments on time. However, you may not have found any improvement in your financial hardship, where missing payments becomes unavoidable. In that case, you might look for ways to keep your house in working with your creditor.  As you, [...]

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Is It Advantageous to Fix A Variable Rate

Interest rate continues to stay at historic lows. At a recent meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee decided to keep the official base rate at 0.5 per cent until their next meeting in about a month’s time. Indeed, interest costs are so low that they comprise a smaller proportion of household incomes these days than in [...]

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Renting a Property Can Make You an Easy Target for Scams

Financial scams will always be around. However, when the economy is making things hard on everyone the scams seem to be more common. People are desperate for a good deal and would be thieves are ready to offer a deal to unsuspecting victims. Recently a research study by Shelter revealed that up to 1 million [...]

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Buy to Let Landlords Must Consider Tenant Welfare

In an earlier blog, we underlined the need to purchase buy to let insurance for your rental property. Lately, the National Landlord Association (NLA) has been very critical of rogue buy to let insurance customers who “choose to exploit their tenants.” “We roundly condemn the worst excesses in the private-rented sector where a small minority [...]

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Tips on Finding a Good Place to Rent

Finding a place to rent can be a daunting task. But if you organise your activities properly, there can be less inconvenience and moving pains in it for you. Here are a few tips on how you can manage the process. Do thorough preparation Good preparation and research is everything. Before anything else, determine what [...]

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Is Buy to Let Rent Insurance Necessary

The quiet rise in residential rents since the start of the year has boosted returns for landlords. Buy to let returns on equity are improving as well as cash flows. And, with burgeoning tenant demand, analysts forecast that rents will continue rising in the next year or two. Not bad at all, especially for a [...]

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Finding That Dream Home

Choosing a house is an important decision but it is easy to let the heart rule the head. So it can really pay to give some honest answers to these simple questions about the type of property you are looking for: Where Do You Want To Be Do you need to be close to a [...]

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