Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
Over the years, I have written a number of articles comparing property to standard pensions. Here I am defining “standard pensions” as being the sort where you usually invest via your company and the money is taken off somewhere to be invested by an anonymous fund manager (unless you are one of the supposedly lucky people (debate that!) to have […]
Read moreQ. What have inflation and the tabloid’s nemesis Abu Qatada got in common? A. Well, once you have got them in your system, they are very hard to get rid of. Like the famous Islamic cleric, inflation seems to be endemic to Britain. We seem to have always had it and we can’t seem to get rid of it, unlike […]
Read morePrivate rented sector consultant David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com looks at calls for reform of tax in the private rented sector. In last weeks’ blog I looked at the housing associations, private landlords and the case for housing associations to get involved in “market renting”. In the course of that blog I also mused on the government’s increasing willingness to get […]
Read moreIt must be the new government having an effect on me (or maybe it is the sun) but I have decided to go a bit political this week. Base rate remains on hold this month but one thing that won’t be staying on hold is the mechanism that is used to up rate pensions to account for inflation. It looks […]
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