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Free downloadable spreadsheet for the new stamp duty holiday calculations, covering England, Scotland and Wales. Plus all the new rates detailed and explained.

It's essential property investors are aware of licensing requirements before buying. This advance knowledge can help you spot areas where it is easier and more cost effective to invest, and avoid areas where licensing requirements may be problematic.

Assessing profitability can be a complex equation, involving many variables. Not every property that appears to be a good buy will necessarily work financially. We'll simplify the issue of how much you might make.

Updated stamp duty calculation spreadsheet available to download, reflecting the new £500k threshold from 8th July 2020.

Owning rental property involves a requirement for regular gas safety checks and electrical safety checks. We’ll look at the latest rules on safety certificate compliance and how to make management more straightforward.

As a property investor one of the things that's easy to overlook is the issue of planning applications in the area you’re investing.

Every property investor would like to find great property deals at below market value. Here we'll look at tactics for finding BMV property deals successfully.

Now, PaTMa's free browser extension is highly customisable to give you an enhanced level of financial information on any property you're thinking of buying.

Here we’ll look at some new features available in Property Prospector, and how they can save you time, make you more efficient and help you make better property investment decisions.

In this report we’ll look at Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and Wales’ Land Transaction Tax including how they work, what tax rates apply and how to calculate the tax payable easily.

This time I’m going to take a really positive stance and offer you some pro-active ideas to help you prepare for the future and plan your growth in what will hopefully be brighter, post-virus times.

Here are some more thoughts on ways you can stay positive and keep your business on track, optimised and improved during the Coronavirus pandemic.

In this post I’ll look at ways you can take stock of things right now – and at positive ways to use the time while you’re working at home.

In this series of blog posts I’m going to offer you some useful and valuable ideas, with information to make the very most of your time right now.

Compliance is an issue that all landlords need to take seriously. Learn 7 ways landlords can simplify the different legal responsibilities they need to comply with.

The Bank of England has reduced the base rate by 0.15% to 0.1%, a new historic low, to further mitigate economic effects of from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

The Bank of England has reduced the base rate by 0.5% to 0.25% to help mitigate economic effects of from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

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.