Year: 2018
What Insurance Do I Need for My Mobile Holiday Home?
It might be called a mobile holiday home, but mobility is probably one of the last things on your mind. Once the static caravan you have chosen as your holiday…
Guide To Subsidence And Subsidence Insurance
GUIDE TO SUBSIDENCE AND SUBSIDENCE INSURANCE Contents Introduction What is subsidence? What properties are affected? Types of subsidence Spotting subsidence Subsidence insurance Summary Guide to subsidence and subsidence insurance Introduction…
Latest Mortgage Figures Reveal A Soft Market
The latest Mortgage Trends Update from UK Finance reveals that the mortgage market is softening, with a decrease in the number of completed mortgages in September 2018 across the first…
HMO landlords be prepared
Landlords of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) faced tougher new restrictions on the standards of their let properties from the beginning of this month. The 1st October 2018 marked the…
More HMOs To Require Licences
More than 170,000 Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are to be drawn into the licensing regime operated by local authority housing departments, the Residential Landlords’ Association has estimated. Until now, only HMOs…
Students – are your belongings insured?
You’ve finally lived the dream and arrived at college or university. Freshers’ week is an uncomfortably dim and distant memory. And now it’s time to get down to some of…
The New Ppi Scandal – Leaseholds
The Guardian newspaper on the 20th of July 2018 described it as a “murky” yet “lucrative” corner of the residential property market in the UK – the leasehold system. Other press reports have…
Jobs to get done around your property this autumn
Don’t let the glorious summer we’ve just had lull you into a false sense of security. The coming winter is just as likely to throw its usual quota of storms,…
How to set up an HMO
In the private rental sector, Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) occupy a special part of the market, which is increasingly attractive to landlords. Medway Property News, for example, has produced…
Government urged to stamp out housing taxes so young people can...
RICS (the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) is urging the Government to overhaul the housing tax system, including ending stamp duty on certain properties. By doing so, RICS say this…
UK tourism boosts demands for holiday lets
Nearly 30 million foreign visitors come to the UK each year, said Landlord News on the 24th of August 2018, in a reminder about the importance of arranging adequate holiday let insurance if you…
Asking prices for UK homes falling reveals latest research
PropertyWire reports that asking prices in England and Wales were down 0.3% this month, whilst values were also down in Scotland. According to the latest figures from the Home.co.uk index,…
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