As the property market enters the more lucrative summer months for those who depend on seasonal trade, experts in the sector report things have never been better for landlords with second home insurance. Landlords across the UK are reporting record rental increases and lower void periods for many a year and the ever more obvious [...]
Anyone looking for a good alternative to curtains and nets can do worse than having blinds which come in a varied selection, and are also very user friendly. However, with so many styles to choose from it can be a difficult job to decide which type of blinds to fit on your windows. All blinds [...]
A South West city that that has for many years been close to the top of surveys trying to find the best place in England to live, may be becoming a victim of its own success. Exeter, nestled right at the end of the UK’s south western extreme of the motorway network, has for many [...]
The delicate financial situation in the Republic of Ireland is still affecting great swathes of the population and landlords keen to avoid having to claim on their unoccupied home insurance policy are feeling the pinch. A spate of court cases across the republic has highlighted how many investors in the private letting sector are now [...]
A leading online mortgage provider is forecasting that more residential landlords than ever before will be taking up second home insurance in the coming year. The company, The Mortgage Works, an online subsidiary of Nationwide, believe the results of a recent survey they carried out on mortgage brokers will be reflected in the market place [...]
The uncertainty of the housing market has once more been illustrated by the most recent report on property prices emanating from the Halifax. According to the largest mortgage provider in the UK, house prices in January rose by 0.8%. The news surprised people on the periphery of the industry but experts saw little significance in [...]
With the advent of a surge in interest surrounding interior design around the UK, comes the chance for many would be designers to sign up to college courses. Many local colleges have noted the dramatic increase in the number of people wanting to take a more active part in the way their home looks and [...]
The need for landlords to keep up to date with legal requirements was once again highlighted when two landlords in a Northern city were fined for neglecting to obtain the necessary paperwork to run their businesses. Brian Rafter and Mohammed Asher are both landlords in Manchester. Both of them were fined by Manchester magistrates for [...]
A survey carried out by the UK’s largest online letting agency suggests that landlords go into 2011 full of confidence in their business prospects. The results from Upad’s January Landlord Confidence Index shows that 63% of landlords questioned on whether they felt more or less confident in the buy-to-let market, replied in the affirmative. This [...]
As figures come in suggesting that 2010 was one of the most disaster strewn years in the recorded history of the world, landlords are being urged to make sure their landlord insurance policies are up to date and offer comprehensive cover. The warning from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) centres around flooding in particular, [...]