buildings and content insurance

Buildings and Contents Insurance for Landlords – Why You Need It

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Reading Time: 6 minutes As a landlord, keeping track of your important paperwork and legal duties can be overwhelming at times. With documents to sign, certificates to renew and inspections to schedule, ordering your […]

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Universal Credit & Impact On Rent Arrears

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Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the topics causing a great deal of debate at the moment for private sector landlords is universal credit and the predicted impact that it will have on rent […]

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Renting Out A House For The First Time

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Recent years has seen the demand for long term and short term rentals soar. Rising house prices are making it more difficult for people to get on the property ladder. To […]

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Non Resident Landlord? Reminder to Apply for Tax Relief!

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Reading Time: 3 minutes What is a Non Resident landlord? A non resident landlord is essentially a landlord who lives overseas for more than 6 months of the year and rents out a property in […]

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Does your a property need a carbon monoxide alarm?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Almost everyone knows that all properties – rented or not – should have a smoke detector installed. Smoke detectors protect those at home from the dangers of fire – but […]

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HHSRS

Landlords and the HHSRS – What is the Housing Health and Safety Rating System?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) has been the standard assessment for property safety since 2006. Despite having been active for 15 years, the system has been criticised […]

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Do Your Tenants Have the Right to Rent?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Landlords will have a little more paperwork in the near future as regulations come into force that put the onus on you to check a tenant’s immigration status. Fines of […]

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Turning Pensions Into Property

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Whether you’re already receiving your pension or you’re approaching pension age, it is good to review the different options available to you. One option that many pensioners overlook is turning […]

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Rent guarantee insurance and legal expense insurance – does it really pay?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes For any landlord wanting a peace of mind that the rent they are due will definitely be paid and any legal work associated with that payment and eviction process be […]

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Investing in Buy to Let Property

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Buy to let property is a popular purchase trend in the current market, and many people looking to invest their savings are considering becoming a landlord in order to achieve […]

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Does a Happy Tenant Make for a Happy Landlord?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A happy tenant makes for a happy Landlord and when relationships are strong, not much should go wrong at the beginning, during and most importantly at the end of a […]

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Prepare to Maximise Your Rental Income

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The holiday season is nearly over and the phone lines are already starting to pick up with tenant enquiries.  As long as the property is appealing, the price is right […]

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Advertising Property Online – Creating A Perfect Ad

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Helping our landlords find new tenants starts with making sure their property advert attracts the right tenant online.  In fact a ‘pool’ of the right tenants to choose from is […]

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Landlord electrical safety – when did you last check your wires?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes According to Electrical Safety First, a UK based charity, electricity is the cause of more than 20,000 fires a year – almost half of all accidental UK house fires. With […]

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Referencing a Tenant The Minute You Get An Enquiry

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Reading Time: 6 minutes What do we really need to know about our tenants and why?  UK Landlords that go down the road of self-management will at some point either talk or meet potential […]

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landlord's insurance

Landlord’s insurance: What you need and why you need it

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Landlord’s insurance protects landlords against financial losses associated with their rental property. With the ever-increasing demand for rentals, landlords need to safeguard their homes – and their rental income – […]

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Is a Verbal Tenancy Agreement Legally Binding?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The simple answer is “yes”, a verbal tenancy agreement is as legally binding (reference case: Johnson v. Patry) as a written tenancy agreement, however, we would never advise you enter into […]

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tenant eviction

Everything you need to know about tenant evictions

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As a landlord, evicting a tenant can be a daunting, stressful and often upsetting prospect. In this blog post, we’ve answered a few questions to explain how evictions work, what […]

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How to Prepare Your Boiler for Winter

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Following our popular article on how to prevent your pipes from freezing, we thought you might like an advanced heads up on how to prepare your boiler for the winter. […]

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Accidental Landlord? Top 10 Tips For First Timers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year, thousands of homeowners are forced into becoming an ‘accidental landlord‘ for reasons such as they are unable to sell a property or have moved in with a partner […]

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