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Houses of Multiple Occupation Jun 10, 2015: Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) are often a wonderful source of rental income. In comparison to a standard buy-to-let property the rental yields can often be double. However a number of other factors need to be considered before embarking on the HMO route.

Every month we track the performance of each of the 32 London boroughs to see:-

Is Reading ripe for property investment? May 28, 2015: Well as someone who has invested in Reading…I should know the answer to this! Interestingly the reason I invested in Reading was because my husband took a job down there and needed someone to stay. So we bought a two bed flat near the Shinfield Road and rented out a room up until a few years ago.

Will property thrive or dive in the next five years? May 28, 2015: I heard a real ‘sigh of relief’ from the property industry when the election results were announced.

They were genuinely scared that Labour would win and their policies would end up crashing the £2mn plus property market; cause buy to let landlords across the country to sell up; institutional investment landlords to pull out of their plans to expand in the UK and not actually build anywhere near enough properties either.

Essential guide for tenants – thanks to the government and PRS experts May 26, 2015: Last year I was privileged to be asked to join a big group of experts from the Electrical Safety Council to ARLA and RICS, National Union of Students and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme.

Our job was to help to produce a government guide for tenants to rent for those that live or are international students or professionals moving to England.

You would think that this was quite an easy task, but in actual fact it was pretty difficult.