- Property investment in buy to let on the increase againThe number of properties being purchased with buy to let mortgages increased by around 84,000 in 2011, according to latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). During the fourth quarter of 2011, a total of 34,800 buy to let mortgages...
- Shelter demands tougher sentences for serial rogue landlordsRogue landlords are still cashing in on the high demand for rented homes, and trapping families in squalid and sometimes dangerous conditions claims Shelter. The charity has repeated its call to housing minister Grant Shapps to keep the Government’s promises...
- Landlords welcome return of corporate lettings in the Home CountiesAfter a slow couple of years, corporate lettings have returned to the Surrey area which is injecting a welcome boost to the sluggish property market. Sitting on the south-west border of London, affluent villages such as Virginia Water was previously popular with...
- Housing association becomes buy to let landlord to help generate incomeA shortage of professionally managed high-quality accommodation available for private rent to young professionals has tempted a housing association to enter the uy to let market. Thames Valley...
- Landlord fined for failing to keep flat in good and clean decorative repairA landlord who failed to keep the flat he rented out ‘in good and clean decorative repair’ has been fined £1,750 and ordered to pay costs of £600. Amar Shazad, from Walthamstow, admitted eight offences at...
- Aldermore boosts sales and BDM support teamMortgage Solutions
Aldermore Residential Mortgages has added two new members to strengthen its sales team.
- Slow PPI redress an “open goal” for claims firms, warns Which?Mortgage Solutions
Which? has urged banks to streamline their payment protection insurance (PPI) claim process or risk exposing customers to claims management companies, after just a quarter of the promised amount of redress was paid out in 2011.
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