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Preparing Your Block of Flats for Renting
Investing in and renting out property is a huge business in the UK, but if you’re thinking of giving it a try, you may find that it’s not as easy as it sounds to manage an entire block of flats. We’ve compiled a great list of things that must be done to ensure that you…
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The UK’s best rental markets for buy-to-let landlords
Lettings management platform, Howsy, has revealed the most appealing markets for UK landlords based on the annual rental return available as a percentage of the property investment cost. Howsy looked at the average annual rent in every area of the UK and what it equates to as a percentage of the cost of a property…
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Average tenant deposit set to drop for first time since 2015 as £1.9bn paid in this year
Research by Hamilton Fraser’s deposit alternative scheme Ome, has revealed the current cost of the average deposit facing UK’s tenants and how this has changed since 2015. The Hamilton Fraser Group has an extensive knowledge and database of deposit protection having operated the government authorised scheme mydeposits since 2007, as well as operating its own…
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Cost of maintaining a buy-to-let hits £12k a year in parts of the UK
Leading property management platform, Howsy, has looked at the cost of maintaining a buy-to-let property each year and how this varies across the UK. Buy-to-let can be a tricky business if you don’t tackle it properly and there are a whole host of costs that can trip up the amateur investor. From the more obvious…
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How to Be a Landlord: A Comprehensive Guide
There’s a lot of money to be made in the real estate industry. But of course, you will need to make major investments first. Becoming a landlord is one of the best ways you can leverage real estate investments and make very good returns. A landlord is a real estate investor who earns an income…
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Why buy-to-let is still worth it
Buy-to-let can be a great way to make use of property you can’t or don’t want to live in. It’s also a great way to make money without having to do a whole lot of work. Despite what you may have read about tax relief and proposed changes to the system, BTL is still a…
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Compare Letting Agent Fees
Don’t you just hate overpaying for something, then not getting a good service or product in return? If you’re a landlord looking for a letting agent, you’re obviously interested in letting agent fees and comparing the best performing agents. No doubt a good agent is of paramount importance. Wrong choices lead to bad tenants, vacant…
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Room rents rise 8% in the wake of Tenant Fee Act but seasonal demand decline hits some cities
Leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has released it’s Room Rental Index for the second quarter of 2019, looking at the cost of renting a room across the UK’s major cities. Ideal flatmate crunched the numbers from more than 29,000 room share listings on its site added between April and June and found that in…
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How the end of no-faults evictions will impact landlords
Over recent times, the term “no-faults evictions” has become a very contentious one. Those opposed to the concept paint a picture of families being dragged out of their homes by ruthless landlords who want to raise the rent as high as possible regardless of the consequences. Those in favour point to the fact many landlords…
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Real Estate Rental Business. How to Build Safe Platform
There’s a lot of profit in managing rental facilities, as long as the essentials are in place. These days that means building out credible platforms to assist the enterprise. Modern cloud portals are a robust solution because they allow customers and businesses to manage all their rental transactions seamlessly. Security Considerations for a Platform A…
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New Landlord Advice: Essential Support Services To Help You
The number of people taking up property investment has been rising year on year, with figures increasing by up to 5% annually. In the UK, there are now over 2.5 million landlords managing rental properties. There is great significance in this information, as it means the practice is seeing a large influx of first-time landlords…
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Let Alliance Transforms Tenant Referencing in Partnership with TransUnion
Let Alliance has completed a two-year strategic project that has resulted in redefining the way that tenant referencing works in the UK, with references now returned the same day. Until now tenant referencing across the lettings industry has relied upon tenant referencing companies accessing publicly available credit information only. This credit information is limited to…
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Tenant fee ban will reduce deposit fees by £2.9bn a year
The latest research by property compliance specialists, VeriSmart, has revealed the huge sum of money currently tied up in the private rental market across England and how this will change with the introduction of the tenant fee ban on the 1st June. VeriSmart analysed data from Gov.uk which shows that there are 4,530,000 tenants currently…
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Leeds is leading room rental growth, but London remains the most unaffordable
Leading flat sharing platform, ideal flatmate, has released its Room Rental Index for Q1 looking at the cost of renting a room across the UK’s major cities. ideal flatmate analysed the cost of thousands of spare rooms listed on its platform looking at the differing cost of renting across each major UK city, each borough…
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18.6m spare room surplus could be the solution to Britain’s broken housing market
Research by leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has looked at the excess number of spare rooms across the UK and how this surplus could address the UK’s property stock shortage. Using data from Twenty CI, ideal flatmate found that there are 30.5m dwellings in the UK, home to a total of 84.4m bedrooms. According…
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