Check out the tool here Mark is a champion of investors and puts a hell of a lot of effort into improving knowledge and teaching amateur & professional Landlords alike how to minimise risk and maximise returns. He’d be very grateful of your feedback on the new feature – send him an email to mark@property118.com […]
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Updated 1st April 2016 Since this post was originally written on 12th January 2014, Liverpool City Council has now completely withdrawn the exemptions for empty properties. Click here for more information. The most important change is as follows: Empty property discount From 1st April 2016 discounts for empty homes that are either furnished or unfurnished have been […]
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Dear Luciana, We at Homesure Property regularly house asylum seekers, often at very short notice, providing them with clean, safe, and suitable accommodation at the relevant local authority housing rate. We support the local authority who lean on us heavily as they know that we work quickly to house their clients, especially when other agents […]
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If you’d like further information, don’t hesitate to contact him at Robert Irving Burns. Outsourcing commercial property estate management offers the opportunity to spend more time focussing on other priorities and business activities at the core of your business. Having professionals use their resources enables you to offer clients more value and frees up the […]
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I like it when a property investment company makes the point of including a lettings agents’ fees into their return on investment yields. Many investment companies will ignore these ‘optional’ costs & fees to massage the ROI figures and make them look more attractive. Just like a good quality hedge fund, you will have a […]
He is to introduce week long supervised job centre sessions with the message “No attendance, no benefit. That is only fair. At last, no longer will a life on benefits be an option if you can work.” So what does all of this mean for the private rented sector? Well, the obvious fear to arise […]
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Hi guys, 95% mortgages will be readily available from the high street lenders due to the governments Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee Scheme. George Osborne outlined details of the scheme on the 23rd July and is as follows: The Chancellor has issued details to lenders of the government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme, to […]
From a landlord’s point of view however, it is often the cause of great frustration as outgoing Tenants magically change their opinion on cleanliness when they leave. Properties are very rarely handed back to a landlord or Agent in the same condition that it was handed over. Ovens that “must be professionally cleaned before I […]
Hi All, Owners of property in Spain may be carrying risks that they are unaware of. Spanish property owners may have problems with probate in Spain – do not assume that your UK will is sufficient! If you own property in Spain, or anywhere else abroad, you should undertake to have a will produced that […]
Whilst training up a new member of staff I was sent on a viewing in, well let’s call it, a less desirable area of Liverpool. My viewer was an out-of-town student with a young child. She was looking for somewhere reasonably priced, but suitable to bring up her child at the same time. Whilst on […]
