Landlord Insider

In this post, we will be answering some tax questions about capital gains tax. Here, learn how other landlords have worked out their CGT, how they minimise this tax bill, and how capital gains tax can change if you move abroad. 

Further to our last software tip on mortgages, there are some slightly more complicated scenarios with mortgages that the software can also handle. In this post, we’ll look at one scenario which came up recently with one of our subscribers. 

Rightly or wrongly, it is a widely held belief that homeowning voters tend, on average, to be conservative voters. It is perhaps with this in mind, that has led Boris Johnson to propose an expansion of the government’s Right to Buy Scheme. The Prime Minister hopes to extend the Right to Buy Scheme to include housing association tenants alongside their council home counterparts. 

There are an estimated 5 million leasehold homes in the UK, and many of the leaseholders occupying these homes will be liable for service charges. 

There have been a lot of updates so far on legislation that is aimed at governing the private rental sector. In turn this will have an impact on landlords. In today’s post Mary Latham will be explaining what landlords can expect to see on the horizon this year.