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![Top tips to help protect yourself against property investment fraud](/img/default/llt.png)
Many people invest in property or sign up to investment club arrangements, which are not uncommon in the industry, but sometimes it...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Online letting agency launches new subscription model for landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
It is becoming increasingly clear that some letting agents may not survive the tenant fee ban coming into force next spring...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government changes leading to ‘confusion among tenants’](/img/default/llt.png)
More than half - 53% - of tenants in this country do not understand their rights and new regulations brought in...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![There is a misconception that most BTL landlords are wealthy](/img/default/llt.png)
There are around 2.4 million landlords in the UK, but what are the characteristics of the average buy-to-let investor? Two thirds of...
23 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Landlord incentivises needed to ‘stop rents from spiralling out of control’](/img/default/llt.png)
The government must start to provide financial incentives for buy-to-let landlords prepared to offer longer tenancies or risk seeing rents soar,...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Private landlords continue to be stigmatised by the media](/img/default/llt.png)
Changes to the buy-to-let tax regime are squeezing landlords’ margins, yet many are thinking about exiting the private rented sector not...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rents likely to rise as Bank of England increases interest rate to 0.75%](/img/default/llt.png)
Many buy-to-let landlords have so far refrained from passing on extra costs to tenants despite feeling the squeeze from a stamp duty...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Many BTL landlords worried their properties won't ‘cover their own costs’](/img/default/llt.png)
Bricks and mortar have provided stellar returns for many people over the past couple of decades, prompting many to rely on...
16 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Dominic Raab’s exit leaves us ‘staring down the barrel’ of a housing crisis](/img/default/llt.png)
Kit Malthouse has been named as the government’s latest housing minister after Dominic Raab, who spent just six months in the...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tenants face rent bombshell](/img/default/llt.png)
Rent hikes are inevitable unless the government reverses tax changes for landlords, it has been claimed. Tenants face paying an average of £23 a...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Third of landlords thinking of quitting BTL sector due to ‘challenging’ tenants](/img/default/llt.png)
MakeUrMove is warning that a significant number of buy-to-let landlords are thinking about quitting the private rented sector due to problem tenants...