Archives for 2017

The Bank of England increased interest rates by 0.25%. Understand the effect this will have on your buy-to-let mortgage payments and profit.

You can save hours in your buy-to-let investment search by using our simple property prospecting tool. Read on to find out how much easier your life could be!

Learn more than you ever wanted to about buy-to-let mortgage rental cover including how to calculate mortgage rental cover. Complete with downloadable Excel spreadsheet.

Quick and simple 3 step guide to start comparing your potential buy-to-let investment properties. Easily compare on affordability, profitability and yield.

Understand all the buy-to-let profit calculator results; what the numbers are and where they've come from. Make sure you know what it all means.

Quick and easy reference guide to terms and options available in our buy-to-let profit calculator.

Stamp duty (SDLT) calculation guide in Excel, with second home (buy-to-let) stamp duty calculations and full explanations for each Excel formula. Suitable for stamp duty since April 2016 - 2017, 2018 and 2019.

There are two excellent improvements to our free buy-to-let profit calculator live today.

Better Results Layout

Now with much clearer separation between the result sections. You can easily see how the figures are grouped. For example, showing the total investment required and how it's broken down into the component parts …

We're proud to be supporting Gas Safety Week 2017, taking place 18th – 24th September.

Gas Safety Week is an annual safety week to raise awareness of gas safety and the importance of taking care of your gas appliances. It's co-ordinated by Gas Safe Register, the official list of gas engineers …

When you're managing property you have to stay on top of your gas safety certificates. Both for the safety of your tenants and to meet your legal requirements.

A gas safety certificate lasts for a year and remembering when it's due for renewal, especially if you're keeping track of several …

Hopefully you already know that April 2017 is bringing the start of some unpleasant tax changes for private landlords; but have you calculated how they're going to affect your bottom line?

You can use our buy-to-let profit calculator for existing properties in your portfolio just as well as for new …

This is a guest post kindly written and provided by Paul Samrah, partner at Kingston Smith.

In the 2015 Summer Budget, the government started to introduce a series of measures which together have had a very adverse effect on the tax position of residential landlords. Suddenly your property portfolio may …