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17 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Landlord Regulations To Be Scrapped!

You may or may not have heard that the government are planning to scrap the new landlord regulations which the previous government set up. However I am still undecided about whether this is a good thing or not… In Grant Shapps announcement, he revealed that he no longer planned to implement a national register for [...]

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10 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

What Can We Expect From The Emergency Budget?

One of the most frustrating aspects about the coming Emergency Budget is that no one seems to know how badly property investors will be affected. Aside from the rumoured change of swapping the 18% Capital Gains Tax charge for 20%, 40% and 50% income tax fees for profits made from selling property, I personally have [...]

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03 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Property Investments Made Easier…

I simply love phone applications that make searching for property investments even easier, so the latest iPhone app to be released by HomesGoFast.com was exactly up my street.

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27 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Bye Bye HIPs

Now I don’t know about you but since the Housing Minister announced that they are abolishing HIPs I haven’t known how to react. On the one side this is great news for homeowners as it means that they won’t have to pay at least £500 to create them, but on the other, this pack actually [...]

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20 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Property Women Awards 2010

If you are a female property investor, then you’ll be more than aware of the National Landlords Associations ‘Property Women Awards 2010’…

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13 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Escape The 5% Stamp Duty Tax!

It is rare that I ever go over the £1m benchmark on individual property investments, but the arrival of the 5% stamp duty fee has really got me thinking about what I am going to do in the future should I ever want to go down this road.

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22 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Buy to Let Sector Under Threat

You might remember me commenting the other week on the fact that there are now over 500,000 empty properties across the UK which are currently lying vacant due to councils not wanting to lose their government funds. Well, the housing crisis just keeps on getting better and better…

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15 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Could Your Possessions Be Affecting Where You Invest?

I read a really fascinating piece the other day about the amount of possessions homeowners take with them when they move…

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08 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Government Overlooks 500,000 Empty Properties

Considering that the government is meant to be all about cutting the social housing list, they are making a poor job of it.

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01 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Does The New Stamp Duty Holiday Apply To You?

I may no longer be classed as a ‘first time buyer’, but following the governments revelation of their new 2 year first time buyer stamp duty holiday last week I have to admit that I was interested in how they were going to regulate it.

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