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7 Steps To Make Your House Eco-Friendly On A Budget

17 March, 20170 Comments
In today’s modern society, we all know the importance of protecting the environment and the impact pollution (noise, air, light) has on our lives. However, many of us feel that we do not have the time nor the budget to make changes towards environmental sustainability. This is why Vivo Property Buyers has outlined 7 Steps
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Planning a Home Renovation? 5 Things to Remember

21 July, 20161 Comments
Are you planning a home renovation? It’s exciting, but there are a number of things you need to remember before you dive in. Here are five key things to keep in mind… You need a budget The biggest consideration when renovating a property is, of course, your budget. It’s incredibly important to spend sufficient time
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Investors to quit the market and sell off 500,000 properties

04 February, 20160 Comments
According to new research from the NLA landlords will sell off 500,000 properties in the next 12 months thanks to landlord confidence is at its lowest since the dark days of the banking crisis. The proportion of landlords looking to sell in the next 12 months has doubled since July 2015, just after George Osborne’s
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Cherie Blair wades in on landlord tar relief cuts

Cherie Blair – Mortgage tax relief cuts breaches human rights

04 February, 20160 Comments
Cherie Blair MBE QC is the latest to wade in on the battle of the ‘unfair’ mortgage tax relief changes for landlord. Mrs Blair’s law firm Omnia Strategy has sent a legal letter to the HMRC stating that the changes breach landlords’ human rights. The letter must be responded to by the Government by Wednesday
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SAL and RLA reaction to government petition response

01 September, 20150 Comments
The e-petition which opposes the Government’s Summer Budget proposals to change the tax relief charges for private residential landlords has now attracted over 20,000 signatures has now drawn a response from Government. The Government maintains the move will affect fewer than 1 in 5 landlords, that residential property is a passive investment like shareholding, and
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Wear & tear allowance removal

13 August, 20150 Comments
The NLA has reported on new findings which show that at 47% almost half of landlords will be affected by the removal of the annual wear and tear allowance. The research has found that 24% of landlords let their properties fully furnished, 22% let a mixture of both furnished and unfurnished properties and just over
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Rising rent fears from tenants

04 August, 20150 Comments
As I am sure you all aware by now the mortgage tax reliefs that private residential landlords currently receive are being scrapped, thanks to George Osborne and his budget. As a result, questions have been raised as to whether it is in fact landlords that will feel the impact of these cuts, or whether the
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Just 1 bad tenant can wipe out an entire pension pot …

08 April, 20140 Comments
With 25% of retirees planning to user their pension pot to buy an annuity, following reforms announced in this year’s Budget, LRS wonders how prepared these ‘silver-savers’ actually are for becoming a landlord. Following the biggest shake-up of the pensions system in generations, pensioners can now take more of their pension pot as up-front cash,
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If you raised the rent would your tenants fall into arrears ?

18 March, 20140 Comments
As the Chancellor puts the finishing touches to his Budget, due to be delivered tomorrow, coupled with the government stating that the UK’s economy is on the road to recovery – LRS would like to ask are your tenants flush or if you raised the rents would they fall into arrears? Business in the big
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