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A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
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London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...
29 January 2019
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New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...
04 October 2018
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One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...
09 July 2018
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There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...
04 June 2018
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A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...
26 October 2017
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Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...
19 September 2017
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A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...
08 September 2017
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Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
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An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...
13 December 2016
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Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...
09 November 2016
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A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...
24 October 2016
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Despite huge turmoil in the buy to let sector, there has been a significant rise in mortgage activity in the past...
11 October 2016
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The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...
18 July 2016
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New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...
15 July 2016
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A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
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Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...
21 April 2016
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Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...
15 April 2016
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The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...
04 April 2016
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Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...
23 February 2016
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George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...
21 January 2016
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The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...
11 January 2016
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Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
07 January 2016
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A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...
06 January 2016
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A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...
06 January 2016
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Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
05 January 2016
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The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...
04 January 2016
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An online petition seeking the reversal of the Osborne clampdown on buy to let tax breaks has secured around 47,000 signatures...
31 December 2015
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Buy to let tax relief is still set to total around £15 billion annually even after changes to tax relief are introduced,...
21 December 2015
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HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...
10 December 2015
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An online petition asking the government to rethink its raft of tax measures imposed on buy to let landlords this year...
07 December 2015
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A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...
04 December 2015
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Research shows that landlords are scaling-back repairs over the winter in order to optimise finances when a new wear and tear tax...
20 November 2015
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The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...
16 November 2015
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The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...
10 November 2015
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Thanks to Accountancy Age for drawing to our attention to the fact that not every country is tightening up on the tax...
04 November 2015
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While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...
26 October 2015
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The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...
12 October 2015
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The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
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The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign. Two Peterborough-based property developers are...
17 August 2015
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A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...
13 August 2015
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Around 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by changes to the annual wear and tear allowance. That’s the result of...
13 August 2015
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The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...
10 August 2015
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A survey suggests that renters are worried that landlords who have to pay more tax as a result of changes in...
05 August 2015
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A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...
22 July 2015
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HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...