Recent Articles in Buy to Let

Cowboy builders exist because we let them – so it’s time to stop supporting rogue tradesmen
Aug 18, 2014

One of the main reasons the ‘bad guys’ get to continually mess up renovation and maintenance jobs on people’s properties is because we don’t want to pay 20% VAT. Find out how to reduce the VAT from 20% to 5%!

It’s unfair to accuse landlords of ‘raking it in’
Aug 18, 2014

For many landlords, 2014 has been a year of ‘relief’. Unless you have been lucky enough to find a bargain in an area which has recovered its value, landlords’ earnings have had a pretty rough time over the last six years.

Land Registry reveals what's happening with property prices where you live
Aug 18, 2014

Even at city and town levels, the value of the property you want to buy or sell can be going up when the regional data says, on average, prices are going down. So as well as tracking the regional data, we also track the latest property prices movements for major towns and cities in the UK  

What's the latest on property prices in the UK?
Aug 14, 2014

Every other month we look in detail at what the property price reports are saying to see if we can spot what the latest trends are and look beyond the ‘headline’s to help buyers, sellers and investors really understand what’s happening to property prices and more importantly why.  

What to think through when choosing a letting agent
Aug 13, 2014

Despite the fact that there are in excess of 100 checks a property needs to pass to be legally let, the government, local authorities and people like trading standards do very little to make sure a letting agent is operating a legitimate business. In this article I look at how to choose a letting agent.