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Landlords Should be Prepared for Tenants Redundancy One thing that I can do to reduce the financial risks as a landlord is reference my tenants properly to ensure that I get the right tenant in the first place. From now on in particular landlords need to be paying more attention to a prospective tenants job. A couple of years ago a bank employee, mortgage broker or estate agent all might have seemed to a landlord as a pretty good catch. A reasonable income, a fairly secure job in turn allowing the tenant to pay a reasonable rent. Not anymore! Landlord Insurance Checklist - guidance for landlords. Generally landlord insurance policies have two elements to them. The bulk of any expense relates to insuring the structure of the building. Most landlord insurance policies also cover fixtures and fittings, which include such items as: carpets, laminate flooring, kitchens, bathrooms, white goods, light fittings and curtains. This landlord insurance cover is perfectly adequate for most landlords that let out an unfurnished property. It is worth checking that the landlord insurance policy has Do Landlords Need Energy Performance Certificates When Letting Property? Landlords will need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Landlords who market an investment property for letting now risk a £200 fine from the Local Trading Standards Officer if they do not have a Energy Performance Certificate in place on the rental property. What is an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ? Landlords Guidance on Gardens and Outside Space on Rental Property Landlords are probably well aware that many areas are suffering from an oversupply of apartments as speculative building has outpaced the demand from tenants. One of the reasons for this potential over supply is the fact that many of the young trendy tenants that these apartments were meant to appeal to are actually inherently more conservative in their tastes than both property developers and property investors first anticipated. Landlords should look at the property investment opportunities of PRC properties What do the initials PRC mean to you as a landlord and property investor? Probably not an awful lot. However, these type of properties which can be found literally around every street corner in the UK are frequently available at up to 50% below the market value of similar properties in the area. PRC properties therefore represent a potential golden investment opportunity for shrewd property investors. PRC Properties The initials PRC actually refer to the fact that these properties were const Gazundering in a Falling Property Market - Article for UK Landlords and Property Investors Landlords have to search hard for the positives in the current property market. House prices are falling; last week Halifax, the UK’s biggest mortgage lender released figures suggesting that the down turn is gathering pace. Halifax said its index of house prices fell by 1.3% last month, a bigger drop than analysts had expected. Landlords Calculating their Buy-to-Let Property Investment Returns What is involved in calculating property investment returns? The process of calculating investment returns can be very complicated indeed. On commercial property investors will go to great lengths to use techniques which discount future cash-flows (DCF) from individual investments to work out the potential returns and in turn their value. Property Developer Incentives for Landlords The property developer incentives In recent weeks, there have been reports of discounts on new homes of 30%-plus - particularly in urban centres supposedly crammed with high-rise apartments. But actually finding bargains on this scale might be difficult. This analysis suggests most builders - at this stage - are simply allowing a bigger margin for haggling over price, and most will look seriously at offers within 5%-10% of the asking price. Landlords Raising Rents in a Rising UK Rental Property Market Letting agents around London and the south east in particular are seeing up to 25% more activity in their letting business compared with a year ago. Much of this rental demand is coming from young professionals and City workers who are not prepared to gamble and buy property in a weak housing market. The result of this boom in property lettings activity are fast rising rents in certain areas as strong competition amongst potential tenants bids up prices.

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