Editor’s Letter: Goodbye and Thank You
Dear Readers, Today is my last day as editor of Landlord Today. Following more than four years in the role, I have decided to move on to pastures new. It has been an absolute pleasure [...]
Mortgage approvals surge as landlords look to ‘diversify their property portfolios’
A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are looking to take advantage of cheaper borrowing rates, growing demand from renters, and the existing stamp duty holiday by adding to the property portfolio, new figures suggest. Mortgage [...]
The private rental market ‘still isn’t showing any signs of slowing down’
The number of new prospective tenants continued to increase last month, reaching an all-time high, according to ARLA Propertymark’s latest PRS report. The average letting agent branch registered 101 new tenants, which breaks July’s previous [...]
First-time buyers frozen out of the market
Demand for rented homes looks set to increase in the coming months as new data suggests that many people who do not yet own property will not do so for quite some time. The gap [...]
Landlords urged to be on guard against cannabis farms
Landlords are being urged to remain attentive when viewing or inspecting rental homes in order to weed out tenants that may be growing cannabis in their investment properties. The warning comes from police in Portsmouth [...]
Urgent action needed to address mounting tenant debt
A lot more needs to be done to financially support landlords and renters during the existing Covid-19 pandemic, according to Housing Hand. UK rent guarantor service is concerned that the challenges in the private rented [...]
Sharp rise in properties selling for above asking price as buyer demand spikes
One in eight properties sold for more than the original asking price in August as housing demand peaked following the chancellor’s decision to introduce a stamp duty holiday to kickstart the economy. The 13% of [...]
Top tips to winter-proof your garden
With the weather taking a turn for the worse in recent days, buy-to-let landlords who own properties with gardens would do well to ensure their properties are winter-ready before temperatures potentially plunge to levels much [...]
LendInvest introduces products for first-time landlords and student lets
Lendinvest has revamped its buy-to-let range, with new products for student lets and deals for first-time landlords, while the lending platform has increased its maximum loan-to-values (LTVs) to 80% with a maximum loan size of [...]
A missed opportunity ‘to provide support to individual landlords’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s new 'Job Support Scheme', unveiled last week, has been welcomed by millions of workers across the country, but the initiative in its existing form fails to provide a much needed boost to [...]