The Agent Blog - Goodlord

Feb 27, 2023

Compliance

Right to rent

Landlords

Do your landlords understand right to rent checks?

A government report highlights how landlords currently engage with right to rent checks. Here's a breakdown of what letting agents need to know.

Jan 13, 2023

Energy efficiency

Rents

Landlords

Energy crisis

Tenants

Cost of living

Energy price cap

UPDATE: Your guide to the energy price guarantee and equivalent business support

The existing energy price guarantee has been extended for a further three months, until June 2023, helping save the typical household £160.

Jan 11, 2023

Business

Landlords

Tenants

10 tenant and landlord trends for 2023

Tom Goodman, Managing Director at Vouch, shares just some of the lettings trends expected in 2023, from a boom in build-to-rent properties to more landlords creating limited companies.

Jan 9, 2023

Compliance

Business

Landlords

Tenants

6 expert predictions for the lettings industry in 2023: From inflation to fraud

As the new year begins, here are six predictions from the lettings experts to help agents and landlords as they plan for 2023.

Dec 19, 2022

Compliance

Landlords

Making Tax Digital

Making Tax Digital: Preparing your agency and your landlords

Landlords will have more time to prepare for the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax rules, as the government pushes back the deadline to April 2026.

Red door with wreath at Christmas with fairy lights

Dec 19, 2022

Landlords

Maintenance

Sean Hooker: How to avoid the Christmas crisis

An agent’s duty of care to tenants doesn't stop because it’s Christmas. Sean Hooker urges agencies to prepare for inevitable issues over the winter holidays.

Nov 21, 2022

Landlords

Making Tax Digital

Tax

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: 4 key things your landlords need to know

From quarterly tax returns to a new points-based penalty system, here are four key things that your landlords need to know about Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.

Nov 17, 2022

Landlords

Economy

Key takeaways for letting agents and landlords from the Autumn Budget 2022

From an extension of the energy price guarantee to a halved capital gains tax threshold, here's what landlords and letting agents need to know about the Autumn Budget 2022.

Nov 14, 2022

Landlords

Making Tax Digital

Short-term lets

Tax

Your guide to the proposals to simplify income tax for residential landlords

From the separate tax regime for holiday rentals to Making Tax Digital for landlords, here's an overview of what the Office of Tax Simplification has recommended to simplify how residential property income is taxed in the UK.