A growing number of landlords are purchasing buy to let property in the name of a limited liability company.
Let’s take a look at some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about why they are doing so and what that means for the limited company buy to let mortgage they are likely to need.
In the Budget of 2015, the Chancellor, George Osborne, made an announcement that rocked the buy to let property investment market to the core. Tax relief for residential landlords was changing. A Landlord’s ability to claim finance costs against rental income was being reduced in a bid to make buy to let property investment a [read more]
Bridge To Let In an article that we posted last month, entitled “Refurbishment Finance” the narrative mentioned the recent Buy-To-Let tax changes which are negatively affecting landlords. The changes were announced in the budget of 2015 and implemented through an instrument in UK Tax Law called “Section 24”. The changes have been sensationalised in the [read more]
Renovations, refurbishments and conversions: Finance Options In this article we will look at the finance options available for property refurbishments, restorations and conversions of commercial, semi commercial buy to let (BTL) and Holiday Let property and specifically not for buying property for use as a primary residence which either requires upgrading immediately, or is just [read more]
It is important to understand the differences between these two categories. Just because the both involve letting does not mean that they are similar; in fact the word “let” is possibly the only similarity. The law, taxation and finance for these including much of the underwriting rationale for the finance are quite different Let us [read more]