Buy to Let
Bow is on the up
Bow is on the up - and amongst the vast regeneration of this spectacularly located London village, a new landmark development of cutting edge, executive city homes is being created by award winning house builder, Higgins Homes.
Landlords’ lives made even easier online
Accommodationforstudents.com (AFS) has upgraded its website and introduced three new time and money saving services. Each enables landlords to fill and manage their properties more efficiently. The services – Potential Tennant Alerts, MyDeposits and Home3Assistance - are now live and available to use.
Surrey flats offer a smart way to invest
Family and Friends Advantage promises generous returns for those helping first-time buyers on to the property ladder at Taylor Wimpey’s Hinchley Park development of new homes in Surrey.
Lettings market remains buoyant
The lettings market remains buoyant, as increased tenant demand and a shortage of properties pushes rents higher, says the latest RICS Residential Lettings Survey.
It pays to invest in Invito
Rental potential on George Wimpey’s new flats in East London makes them popular investment properties.
Rent arrears are main cause of possessions
47 per cent of possessions by landlords are due to tenants not paying their rent, according to research published by the National Landlords Association (NLA).
Buy-to-let lending remains subdued
The freezing up of the buy-to-let mortgage market that emerged as an unwelcome side-effect of the credit crunch appears to have eased a little, according to the latest buy-to-let survey results from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
50 per cent off deposit protection fee for NLA landlords
Members of the National Landlords Association (NLA) can join my|deposits, the Government-authorised tenancy deposit protection scheme, for only £10 during its bonanza summer sale.
Lewisham flats make a sound investment
Taylor Wimpey highlights the rental potential of brand new apartments at its Axis development of flats in Lewisham.
Sheffield letting agent advises landlords to ‘buy now’
In light of the Land Registry’s latest price index which showed that house prices were on average 8.4 per cent higher than this time last year, Rick Flay from Belvoir Sheffield, the leading letting agent in Sheffield is advising landlords that future forecasts indicate that house prices will remain level or drop to much lower levels, making it the ideal time to invest in a buy-to-let property.
Letting agent predicts continental shift
In light of new figures demonstrating that the private rented sector is in fact increasing, Rick Flay from Belvoir Sheffield, the leading letting agent in Sheffield is advising landlords UK-wide to gear up for changes heading their way.
New Gumtree scam comes to light
A number of defrauded tenants have contacted the NLA about a new wave of scams on the online classifieds website, Gumtree.
Residential rents in central London surge by 9.2%
Rents in London’s prime residential market are on the rise, up 9.2% in the 12 months to the end of June 2010, according to the Knight Frank London Lettings Index.
1 in 5 landlords have had tenants with rent arrears
A fifth of private-residential landlords have had tenants in rent arrears over the last three months, according to new research published today by the National Landlords Association (NLA).
Tenant demand continues to grow
Nearly three times as many landlords reported that tenant demand was rising rather than falling during the second quarter of the year, Paragon Mortgages' PRS Trends Report has revealed.