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How to Declare Airbnb Income to HMRC

Your Airbnb account says guests paid £800 for a stay, but a smaller amount reached your bank account. Which figure belongs on your tax return? If you only let the property for a few weekends, do you need to send a return at all?

The first job is to establish what HMRC expects for your type of letting. After that, you can collect the figures for the correct tax year, register if necessary and...

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Top 10 cities to 'flip' a house revealed by new report

The top 10 cities to ‘flip’ a house in the UK revealed

New report names Manchester as the best place to ‘flip’ a house for profit
Renovators in Liverpool are adding the most value with +£20,000 on average
Seven of the top 10 cities are in Northern England or Scotland

A new report has named Manchester as the best place to ‘flip’ a house by analysing...

Devonshire Homes announces extended revolving credit agreement to spearhead ambitious growth plans

West Country independent housebuilder Devonshire Homes has extended its revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank to facilitate future growth plans.

The newly extended agreement will support Devonshire Homes’ expansion strategy to double turnover and deliver 400 homes per annum by 2026.

The privately-owned housebuilder has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Lloyds...

Mill Green Event Offers Mortgage Advice, Moving Help and More

ANYONE with eyes on a new home in the Lytham area should head to Mill Green in the village of Warton this weekend (Feb 19/20).

Anwyl Homes is celebrating its two new show homes at Mill Green , off Lytham Road, and is keen to show home buyers everything this superb location has to offer.

There’s an open invitation for people to join them for show home tours and light...

Milestone For New Community in Ross-On-Wye

THE opening of a new show home this February marks the latest milestone for the growing community taking shape at St Mary’s Garden Village in Ross-On-Wye.

Edenstone Homes opened its first show home at the popular development in 2019. Now that building work has progressed, the company is moving into a new show home – an example of the three-bedroom detached Budleigh Corner style...

UK Foster Parents Designated As ‘Unmortgageable’

Whilst the property market has run away with itself in recent years, especially during the pandemic with house prices rising over 18% since March 2020, one section of society has been unable to participate - ostracised because they are paid by the state to look after children in care.

A case study to demonstrate the problem:

Louise and Sonya Sweeney, a married couple from...

Now is the time to sell to take advantage of the homebuyer spring surge

Research by estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester , has revealed that now is the time to list your home on the market in order to take advantage of the spring surge in market activity that’s about to hit the property market.

Barrows and Forrester analysed residential transactions across England and Wales by month over the last five years, looking at the average number of...

Leading Scottish estate agency further builds its operations in Glasgow

As property prices remain strong, Scotland’s leading legal and estate agency, Pacitti Jones, is continuing to expand its operations throughout Scotland in 2022. This week the rapidly growing agency is announcing a further acquisition with Dennistoun based estate agency, Tip Top Homes.

This is expected to be the first of several acquisitions for Pacitti Jones this year as the award-...

Last Chance To Step On The Ladder Using Help To Buy At Millbrook Park

Barratt London are encouraging young professionals and first-time buyers to enquire about the final phase of homes at Bramble Apartments, part of the popular Millbrook Park development in Mill Hill, NW7, which launched last month [January 2022].

As the final phase, this will be the last time that buyers here can benefit from the popular Help to Buy loan, with the government scheme...

Nine reasons why your property transaction might fall through

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions , has looked at the most common contributing factors that lead to a property sale falling through.

Fall-throughs are commonplace in the UK housing market and It’s thought that one in ten property purchases fails before completion . However, with the market booming in recent months, it’s estimated that fall-throughs have been as common as...

UK’s first start to finish lettings platform raises at a £5m valuation

Rentd is the newly launched property platform that finds and secures tenants for landlords at a fixed fee of just £799 including VAT, only payable once let. That’s a considerable saving compared to the typical commission of £1,750 and one that can help boost buy-to-let profit margins following a string of government legislations designed to do the opposite.

This landlord is saving...

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