Airbnb Hosts: Tax Housekeeping Reminder

The UK staycation trend appears to be here to stay… or at least into the summer of 2022. This in turn is reflected in the ongoing predominance of Airbnb market presence across the UK, which perhaps also reflects landlords changing their view on short term lets. Landlords have had to absorb increased costs in recent …

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Levelling the Playing Field – Crackdown on Short Term Lets

At a time when Scotland suffers from a chronic undersupply of housing and the private rented sector is being increasingly more regulated, landlords are tempted to shift their properties from the residential sector to the less regulated short term lets market, with its potentially higher gains. In Scotland there are 31,000 active short term let …

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Positive Reviews on Airbnb Lead to £100k Fine

A council tenant has been caught illegally subletting his studio flat in London on Airbnb, after his first name featured in a number of online reviews left by his satisfied guests. Toby Harman, 37, going by the name ‘Lara’ on the holiday lets platform, had been blissfully subletting his council flat in Vauxhall Bridge Road …

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