Dealing with taxes is a standard necessity for landlords and property investors. It can be a tedious exercise. With the right preparation, however, you can minimize both the time and the expense involved. If you are a landlord If you are a landlord, you are directly investing in property. If […]
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… […]
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 […]
A question I am sometimes asked is, ‘Is there more than one way to do buy to let?’. It all depends on how you define buy to let. If you define buy to let as buying a property and putting a tenant in then that could cover HMOs (Houses of […]
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 that I am sometimes asked is ‘how much of a discount can I expect to get off a purchase price or off an asking price if I offer the agent cash?’. By the way, just to be clear, when I say offer the agent cash, I don’t mean […]
Much has been written about how people are waiting longer before they buy their first home. It has, however, recently emerged that people are beginning to invest in property at a younger age. Statistics show the younger generation is taking over from their elders New research by mortgage broker Commercial […]
Purchasing a property ‘off the plans’ is the act of agreeing to purchase a property before the build has been fully completed. Developers and agents will provide general information, such as computer generated images and floor plans to give you an idea of what the finished product will look like and you will have the chance to […]
The resilience of the UK property market can be seen by the fact that it has barely trembled in the face of years of uncertainty over Brexit. It’s therefore little wonder that international property investors have been eager to buy into both the residential and commercial markets. If you’re a […]
Ideally, your investment property should always be occupied. In the real world, however, that is not likely to happen, even in the residential rental market and it is even less likely to happen in the short-term lettings market. However you will need to learn how to manage an empty investment […]
