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London landlords spend £5,000 a year on repairs

Maintenance is the biggest buy to let expense for landlords – with a quarter spending more than £5,000 a year on repairs on central London homes.

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Hundreds of Buy to Lets Unsafe To Live In

Nearly 600 homes were upgraded last year after complaints about poor standards from tenants to Westminster City Council.

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100 buy to let homes raided by council hit squads

Enforcement squads and police have blitzed 100 rogue landlords in a week in a tough crackdown on an ambitious licensing scheme for 35,000 buy to lets.

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Letting agent complaints overwhelm ombudsman

Complaints about letting agents have soared in the past year, according to figures from The Property Ombudsman.

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Tax man is tracking income shifting couples

Married couples who have joint ownership of a buy-to-let property are urged to consider altering the split of rental profits in order to lower their tax bill.

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Spy-in-the-sky zooms in on beds-in-sheds

A spy in the sky plane zooming in on illegal landlords with thermal imaging cameras is to take to the night skies over Slough.

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Student housing code sweeps nation

The UK’s first accreditation scheme for student landlords has been hailed as a success one year on.

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Landlords see buy-to-lets as retirement fund

More landlords see buy-to-let properties as their retirement fund, with most planning to supplement their pensions from property.

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Tax man in unfair crackdown on landlords

The tax man is cutting corners in a crackdown on landlords and unfairly pursuing those who have properly declared their tax, claims an accountant.

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Judges reject home office tax claim

A new ruling by judges could change how landlords claim mileage expenses when travelling between their home and rental properties.

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