Richard Blanco

Property Investor Show At Excel In London

I’m looking forward to meeting lots of landlords
and property professionals at this year’s event and in particular exploring
some of the key challenges that we face. 
These are my top ten challenges for London landlords as we move into
Autumn 2018:

1. Your Tax
Strategy:  Do you have one?  We are now in year 2 of the section 24 tax
changes which restrict the tax relief on mortgage interest payments even though
they are a reasonable cost of running our businesses.   Worryingly, only 49% of landlords fully
understand […]

What could renting look like in a decade’s
time?  Shifts in attitude from government
and the Bank of England have jolted landlords and investors into taking a step
back and looking long into the future.  I
speak regularly at events across London and in 2016 and 2017 I witnessed a fog
of depression descend on many of my colleagues.   This was also reflected in the NLA’s index
of landlord optimism in their lettings business plummeting to an all time
low.  Worryingly still according to NLA
research only 49% of landlords fully understand the implications […]

The abolition of no fault eviction is back on the
agenda.  According to a recent BBC
Panaroma show ‘Evicted For No Reason,’ the Labour Party, spurred on by housing
charities and the entrenched convictions of Jeremy Corbyn, wants to end the use
of section 21. The programme presents three case studies of tenants facing no
fault evictions.  Lauren McGlashan has
fallen out with her landlord who subsequently served a section 21 notice.  She has two months to find a new home for her
husband, retired mother and five children. 
Julie Archer was offered a new tenancy […]