With house price growth slowing down and prices even falling in some areas, there is an argument that it is a buyer’s market for buy to let investors. Changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) could fuel property changing hands between landlords. In the Autumn Budget of 2018, Chancellor Philip Hammond […]
Birmingham has enjoyed a 16% increase in house prices since the Brexit vote in June 2016, according to the latest UK Cities House Price Index from Hometrack. The December 2018 figures show that home values there have increased more than in any other UK city since the vote. Meanwhile, the […]
Alan Pink considers the tax charges that can arise when a trading property becomes an investment and vice versa. Tax planning for property can be fraught with problems, particularly in relation to the all-important question of whether a property-based activity is trading or investment for tax purposes. The distinction is […]
London house prices may not be falling down, but there’s no doubt that they are cooling down, in some cases very noticeably. From an investment perspective, the key question here is whether this slowdown is a sign of long-term issues with the London housing market (and hence a warning signal) […]
In my last blog post I started to think about finding deals through estate agents (read here); however, there can be some challenges with this. Quite often, if you walk into an agent’s office and state that you’re an investor, you’re likely to be faced with indifference or irritation because […]
Next on my list of principal strategies is something that can be great to get you started in property – particularly if you have very little capital – it’s Rent to Rent. Essentially a form of sub-letting, rent to rent is where you “sub-let” a property or properties from a […]
10 Things I’ve Learnt (Part 10) Take Action NOW Over the past 9 weeks I’ve revealed nine things which I’ve discovered over the past 20 years of investing in property for myself, and so now it’s time to complete the series. Number ten on the list is this: Stop procrastinating […]
It’s often said that the price of UK property doubles every ten years – but is there any real truth in this statement? Interestingly, at this moment in time on the market is a property adjacent to a house I considered buying for myself back in 1998. Whilst one example […]
Having taken a look at what an SPV is in my last blog post here – and having established that it is not a specific type of entity but rather a vehicle that’s used for a specific purpose to help you achieve your goals – it’s now time to think […]
Pension ‘pot hunters’ continue to drive buy to let property sales, according to latest research from leading specialist Sequre Property Investment. Compared to original research from 2015*, Sequre has found that the market remains relatively unchanged despite the government’s intervention with taxation for the buy to let sector. With a […]
