Landlord Guides

Company ownership solves one problem and creates several. The costs nobody mentions, when it genuinely wins, and why moving existing properties rarely works.

What to work out before you make an offer on a first rental: the true cash needed, the arithmetic that decides the deal, and the checks that reveal a bad one.

Everyone quotes a figure. The honest answer is that the number matters less than what it has to survive — a rate rise, a void, and one boiler.

Most landlords under-claim, not because they are careless but because the small costs never get written down. Here is the full list of what you can claim against rental income, what you cannot, and the one distinction that decides every borderline case.

Gross yield is the number every listing quotes. Net yield is the number that pays your bills. Here is how to work out both, with a full worked example, and why a property showing 9.3% on paper can still leave you short each month.