One in Five Homes Are Now Buy to Lets, Says Government
Buy to let has mushroomed from 10% of homes in the 1990’s to grab a 20% share in the latest English Housing Survey from the government’s Office of National Statistics. Essentially, the report reveals the number of buy to let homes has doubled since 2003. The latest...
Buy To Let Confidence At Lowest For A Decade
Buy to let landlord confidence is reeling after a series of tax hikes viewed as attacks on property investors. Research revealed that 59% of landlords believe that scrapping tax relief on finance interest for high earners and a 3% surcharge on stamp duty for second...
Buy To Let Is Risk To Economy, Says Bank Of England
Britain’s booming buy to let market could undermine the nation’s financial stability as mortgage interest rates are set to rise, says the Bank of England. In the Bank’s latest financial stability report, worries that easy access to buy to let borrowing has triggered a...
Lettings Laws Should Be Tougher- Ombudsman Report
Property Ombudsman Christopher Hamer claims new laws demanding letting agents join a redress scheme to deal with complaints from landlords and tenants does not go far enough in punishing bad practice in the industry. Hamer writes in his report for last year that...
New And Improved Credit Checking Service for Landlords and Agents
We are working on a brand new website which will bring some extra features to the website. One of those features we have decided we just couldn’t wait and have released today under the current website. Tenant Vetting Service (credit checks) We have introduced a...
Landlords Building Insurance
Guild subscribers can get discounted landlords buildings insurance especially designed for landlords
B & Q TradePoint
