Why do people move to live in city centres? To be close to the office? To be close to the action? For pubs, restaurants, shops, bravado. People pay a ‘premium’ to live in plush city centre pads that offer convenience when it comes to ‘amenities’ because people like living the […]
Tangible, relatively stable and easy to understand, bricks and mortar has long been one of the most popular assets for investing to both protect and build your wealth. However, far from being ‘one size fits all’, there are many facets to property investment and finding the right type(s) to suit both your […]
During periods of market volatility, investors look to assets to be able to quickly recover from downturns and provide long-term, stable returns on investment. With COVID-19 incurring an unprecedented level of global uncertainty, this exact process is currently playing out. As countries overcome the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Let’s face it… If you have the cash to invest in property right now… Why shouldn’t you go straight ahead and just do it? Low interest rates coupled with buyer/seller hesitation means that you might be able to snap up a bargain deal should you look in the right places… […]
When you take property investment down to its fundamentals, there are three, key factors which influence its success. These are choice of location, choice of property and choice of tenant. Of these, your choice of location is arguably the most important since it will heavily influence your options for choosing […]
No longer is flipping houses something that people do on the weekends for fun. Now, it’s a thriving business that people invest heavily in and can make a good living from. In the UK, between 2016 and 2017, the number of flipped homes rose by 1.6%. In 2018, there were […]
Some positive news at last is that it seems there’s light at the end of the property market tunnel. Yesterday news was announced that finally surveyors can start surveying, valuers will again be valuing homes and potential tenants and buyers will be able to view properties whilst those 450,000 already […]
A question I am sometimes asked is ‘what is Net Yield and how does that differ from Gross Yield?’. In an earlier post we thought about gross yield which is expressed mathematically as the rent divided by the purchase price, or the value, times 100. It provides a very basic […]
A question I am often asked is, ‘How do I build relationships with estate agents?’. Let’s start at the beginning. First of all, why would you want to build a relationship with an estate agent? The answer is that, if you follow a strategy like buy to let, probably 90-95% […]
A question I’m sometimes asked is what is, “gross yield and when would I use it?” In its simplest form gross yield is the return on the property. Now, often times that’s the return ignoring costs, and the most simple way of calculating gross yield is to take the annual […]
