Recent Articles in Buy to let property checklists

Redfern Home Ownership report, is it any good?
Nov 17, 2016

Financial pressures on young people are at the centre of the fall in home ownership, according to the first major review into home ownership in more than 10 years...

November 2016 property price update - with data from the UK house price index and Hometrack
Nov 14, 2016

Prices, selling time, regional variation, what do you need to know about the current state of the property market?

Why yields are no longer an accurate measure of success for landlords
Nov 7, 2016

With price growth slowing and rents rising, we have seen, in the main, a rise in yields for the PRS. However, this measure just looks at landlord ‘turnover’ and ignores the fact that landlords are facing one of the toughest few years from a profitability perspective. So, what's the real story...

The solution to London’s housing crisis? Make London bigger
Nov 3, 2016

Regular or casual visitors to the capital cannot avoid the sight of homeless people begging or sleeping rough around stations and in parks, while hundreds of thousands of Londoners can barely afford to rent, let alone purchase, a home...

5 ways to check crime levels when house-hunting
Nov 2, 2016

You’ve found the property of your dreams. It has all the bedrooms you need, the kitchen’s pretty new, the garden has lots of potential. You’ve even checked out the local schools… but have you thought about crime rates?