A practical guide from the Accountants for Landlords
Are you a buy-to-let landlord?
If so, you’ll know from experience that the market has got much tougher.
Negative tax changes have eaten into profits. Finance is harder to arrange. HMOs (houses of multiple occupation) face stricter licensing regimes.
Many of the changes have been introduced to help make property more affordable for homebuyers rather than landlords. As a result, many smaller landlords have sold up as they’ve seen their incomes drop.
There are still good opportunities for landlords!
Despite this, there’s still a lot of opportunity out there for buy-to-let landlords. There a healthy and growing demand from prospective tenants for rental properties. The market is still there and is even buoyant.
But if you want to make a good profit from buy-to-let these days, you need to be a lot savvier than before. You need to know how to make the best use of your tax breaks, understand which financial structures are best for your portfolio, and know the best places to secure financing.
The Accountants for Landlords can help you
Because every portfolio is different, there are no one-size-fits all strategies for keeping your buy-to-let income as healthy as possible. But with the right knowledge and advice – with the help of landlord accountants THP – you can certainly do it!
This guide covers a number of topics that every buy-to-let landlord needs to be familiar with. Some are simple, others are rather more complex. But all of them could benefit you – so if you’d like advice or help on any of them, please get in touch.
Next topic Why Buy-to-Let Incomes are Dropping
The full series from the Accountants for Landlords:
- Making Buy-to-Let More Profitable
- Why Buy-to-Let Incomes are Dropping
- Should I transfer my BTL properties into a limited company?
- Married Landlord? You could reduce your tax bill.
- Strategies for improving Buy-to-Let income
- Personal Buy-to-Let mortgages & re-mortgages – the facts
- Selling your BTL property – things to look out for
- How THP can help you as a Landlord
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The information included on this page should be regarded as general advice only. You should always seek professional advice tailored to your own specific circumstances before taking any action based upon it.