Thanks to the Great Buy-to-let Bashing, mortgage interest payments – a legitimate cost of doing business – are no longer tax deductible. The innocuous-sounding “Section 24” tax rule was billed as a way to give first-time buyers a leg up against investors. (In 2015, the then Chancellor also slapped an extra 3% on stamp duty on all buy-to- let purchases. … Read More
What the interest rate rise means for buy-to-let landlords
Is Britain’s first interest rate rise in 10 years the last straw for landlords? We’ve had higher taxes, tougher mortgage rules and a slow market — and now our biggest cost is going up. What should we make of it all?
Rents to rise but property prices set for slow growth
Rents have been flat, but the pace is predicted to pick up. House prices, however, have adjusted to a new normal, with significantly slower growth than what we have been used to.
How to survive – and thrive – amid the siege on landlords
Section 24, tenant fee bans, Brexit… Landlords feel under siege amid an onslaught of tax and red tape. Is it really that bad? And what can you do to survive and thrive amid all this?
Where to invest in the new rental hotspots
Investors in search of better buy-to-let returns are looking away from London, to cities where prices are low and build-to-rent schemes are booming
Why we should scrap leasehold property
Lisa and Ray Chapple, aged 34 and 35, bought their three-bedroom terrace off plan only seven years ago, but say they would now “struggle to sell”. That’s because their house in Taylor Wimpey’s Speakman Gardens scheme, in Liverpool, is leasehold with a clause stating that the ground rent of £250 a year will double every decade for 50 years — … Read More
Sunday Times coverage: How to let your spare room
Looking for tax-free rental income? Follow these rules and it’s elementary Forget Rigsby. The typical owner who lets out their spare room is no longer a miserly live-in landlord like the one from the 1970s sitcom Rising Damp — fiftysomething and long since separated, spying on his bedsit tenants. Nowadays, they’re likely to be younger and struggling to afford the … Read More
Why new tax rules could put landlords in the red
If you are a buy-to-let owner, a dartboard sporting George Osborne’s face might be high on your Christmas wish list. And if it isn’t, you are probably one of the hundreds of thousands of small landlords still unaware of how they will be hit by a tax change introduced by the former chancellor. Vanessa Warwick, a landlord and co-founder of … Read More
The Sunday Times coverage: Oops, we did it again
Martina Lees shares her top tips for Britain’s growing army of accidental landlords I blame my husband. When Daniel and I got married — intentionally — we ended up letting his bachelor pad in southwest London — accidentally. It helped us to travel the world, start a business and buy our first family home. It also made us landlords. There … Read More
First look at The Accidental Landlord in print
After 288 pages, 18 months and one baby born halfway through, Daniel and Martina open the box with the first printed books of The Accidental Landlord.
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