Councils rake in £327 million from property licensing schemes
The enormous revenues being generated by council property licensing schemes have been revealed by data gathered by PropTech ...
‘Looming end to furnished holiday lets rules will push out landlords’
Claim is made by three tax experts just two weeks before HMRC's huge changes to FHL tax benefits, enjoyed by landlords since ...
Council cock-up helps landlord bat off rent repayment claim
Pressure group Justice for Tenants pressed ahead with licensing rent repayment even after Southwark Council admitted that it ...
Leading lawyer says new PRS database to prove costly for landlords
Mortgage firms and the taxman will be taking a keen interest in the new landlord database and the transparency it will facilitate, says leading lawyer.
Leading surveyor welcomes plans to end ‘feudal’ leasehold system
Dorian Wragg of Bruton Knowles says Labour's leasehold reform ambitions are laudable, but wonders if leaseholds will want to take on the management of their own blocks.
Landlord ‘companies’ now most common type of firm in UK
Latest data from Hamptons shows the extraordinary rise in the use of limited companies mainly by high-tax-rate paying landlords.