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The latest articles from Direct Line for Business, including advice on running your property, managing tenants, legal requirements, and covering yourself and your business.

Landlord Habitation Act

Finance and Legal

Landlord Habitation Act

What is the Homes (Fitness for Habitation Act) 2018 and what are your obligations as a landlord?

How to protect your rental property against malicious damage

Tenants

Protecting your property against malicious damage

Finance And Legal

How to prove and calculate private residence relief (PRR)

Articles and opinions

town houses

Insurance

Why it's important to get an accurate rebuild cost for your rental property

Electrical safety regulations for landlords

Running Your Property

What are the electrical safety regulations for landlords?

A man in a dark grey suit sits next to a woman in a white blouse and he is gesturing while she looks at paper work. They are leaning on a blue glass reflective surface which also has a model house and pad of paper with a pen on it resting on it.

Getting Started

Advantages and disadvantages of using letting agents

A couple in the kitchen with laptop doing their finances

Getting Started

Mortgage vs. cash - which delivers better return?

maintenance and repair responsibilities

Finance And Legal

Landlord and tenant maintenance and repair responsibilities

Unoccupied property: Landlord Insurance explained

Insurance

How to make sure your unoccupied rental property is insured

town houses

Insurance

Difference between home insurance and landlord insurance