Landlord Guides

After deciding to invest in student letting, one of the first decisions is trading status - and a question regularly asked is if owning and renting through a company is better than trading under your own name. The answer from most tax advisers will be a non-committal ‘it depen

Shared house landlords should pick up tax breaks in a bid to encourage them to provide more homes, lower rents and longer tenancies to young renters struggling to find homes, according to a new report. Giving landlords running houses in multiple occupation or buy to lets this

Working from a home office to run a property business is a popular option for thousands of landlords, but many are underclaiming expenses in fear of triggering a capital gains tax bill. The worry is that turning over part of your home to business marks that part of the propert

Stagnant home prices and easier to access buy to let borrowing has allowed landlords to add more properties to their portfolios. The size of the average letting business portfolio went up to 14.1 properties over the last quarter, according to a study by specialist landlord len

Letting agents may soon have to take steps to safeguard landlord cash if they agree to sign up to a new scheme with The Property Ombudsman. Letting agents are not regulated and have no legal obligation to protect rents collected for landlords. Several high-profile letting a

Student housing is still one of the best performing property investments outperforming many other sectors, according to a report from property consultants Savills. The firm’s student housing spotlight for 2012 is aimed at corporate investors, but includes insights and data use