Labour council bills homeowners £28,000 for staff mobile phones
A Labour-run council ordered flat owners to pay £28,000 to cover the cost of 10 mobile phones for its own...
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Mark Drakeford ‘exempt’ from second home tax on holiday chalet
The owners of a wooden beach hut in Poppit Sands, Pembrokeshire, were hit with a council tax bill of almost £4,000...
‘At 60 I’m having to work as a postman because my buy-to-lets are making a loss’
But for Harrop, capital gains tax is only one part of the problem.He says: “I’m a business graduate, I’ve been...
Reeves triggers property market ‘chaos’ with stamp duty crackdown
The stamp duty threshold uplift was launched by Liz Truss during her brief spell in Downing Street. The change was...
Landlords face £7k hidden hit under Labour
The average void period between tenancies in England is 15 days, according to lettings platform Goodlord’s September rental index. This...
‘Our landlord fitted a video doorbell to our house – he won’t let us see the footage’
Dear Nikki,As a father of three daughters and a stepdaughter all of a similar age to you, I have to...
Rachel Reeves warned against tax raid on landlords after average London rent hits £2,694
Despite a modest 13pc improvement in the number of available rental properties from last year, there are still more than...
How to spot property hotspots where experts are still buying
There’s an overwhelming volume of data available one can analyse. My cheeky hack, knowing as I do that major retailers...
‘I worked 11-hour days as a London trader – running Middleton Castle is harder’
Growing up, Tom Barclay kept quiet about his family home of Middleton Castle, just outside King’s Lynn. “I never really talked...
‘Forget downsizing – I upsized to a four-bed £780k house in my seventies’
When his wife died, Michael Higgs, now 80, downsized from his main family home just outside Harpenden, where he’d lived...
