Archives for 2018

Take a look at the newly customisable Prospect expenses in PaTMa Prospector. Making it easier to accurately forecast your next buy-to-let project's profit.

A deeper look at the documents that must be supplied to a tenant before starting a tenancy in England. PaTMa Property Manager includes tools to make the process quick and easy.

Learn about the built-in property inventory software in PaTMa. Completing an inventory is quick and simple with PaTMa and includes the option to instantly send it to all tenants for online signing.

New tenancy checklist. Follow this new tenant checklist - detailed here and built-in to PaTMa for easy access. This great new PaTMa feature provides an easy to use new tenancy checklist process.

PaTMa Property Tool browser plugin v1.7 has been released with improved interface and streamlined access to the most important property data.

Our free buy-to-let profit calculator has had a facelift. Get easy to read headline figures and easier actions for saving, sharing and downloading your results.

The Bank of England increases the base rate by 0.25% to 0.75% - what effect will this have on your buy-to-let profit?

The rules for mandatory HMO licences are changing from 1st October 2018 - smaller properties are now covered and all properties must meet minimum bedroom sizes.

The Government's How to Rent guide must be issued to tenants at the start of all tenancies and they released and extra update in early July 2018.

The Government's How to Rent guide must be issued to tenants at the start of all tenancies and they've just released a new version for use from June 26th 2018.

Is Build-to-Rent going to replace Buy-to-Let? What benefits does it have and who's it for anyway?

On 14th June 2018 the landlord investment show in London kicked off with an expert panel debate. This post is a loose record of what was discussed.

Improved HMO and multi-unit property management features - track tenancies against each unit separately and improve your property dashboard statistics for present and historic occupancy rates.

There's always more to learn in the field of property investment. Using podcasts is a great way to double the value of your time - listening while accomplishing other tasks at the same time.

Store mortgages and valuations. Key benefits: automatic reminders before mortgage fixed rates end, great looking graphics to instantly see your current debt to equity ratio.

What's new in PaTMa? Recent changes include our new Property Tools browser extension, local school information for Prospector, better HMO support and lots, lots more.

Property tools browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox browsers - a Property Bee replacement. Quickly access price property history and comparable for sale and to rent figures. Add any interesting properties to your PaTMa account to track and compare later.

The final part in our guide to completing your tax return with PaTMa. With all your details entered this covers extracting your results and double checking them.

This part of our six part guide to completing your tax return with PaTMa is all about entering your property expenses - repairs, professional fees, insurance and everything else.

Part 4 of 6 in our tax return guide is all about entering your mortgage payments - making sure you split the interest from capital repayments.

Record your rent receipts and start to see your property graphs come to life. Part 3 of 6 in our tax return guide.

Add all your tenancy records, when they started, rent changes and any endings. Also upload the contract and keep tenant contact details handy on PaTMa. Part 2 of 6.

Get started with your landlord tax return by entering your property details on PaTMa. This is part one of a seven part guide to beat the tax return deadline.

Completing your landlord tax return with PaTMa is simple and straight forward. Just follow this seven part guide and beat the tax return deadline.