Property as a pension investment has crushed shares If you visit a financial advisor to discuss your retirement plans, the chances are that residential investment property won’t be mentioned. You can call me a cynic, but my best guess why your financial advisor won’t even broach the subject is that ...
Calculate including tenant’s letting agency fees in your expenses The immediate reaction to the chancellor’s Autumn Statement announcement of a ban on letting agency fees was one of “shock and awe”. It was the piece of investment news that hit the property press headlines. It was a crowd pleaser. ...
Avoid mortgage disappointment to benefit from leverage Property investment could be the key to realising your financial objectives. There is no reason why we shouldn’t expect UK property investment to perform similarly to how it has performed over the last two decades. If you’d bought residential investment property in 1986, ...
Demographics could hold the key to long-term buy-to-let profits Whether you’re making a property investment with the objective of capital gain or the benefit of regular rental income profit, it pays to pay attention to what’s happening in the wider economy and how that might create long-term property investment opportunities. ...
Interest rates are rising: here’s how buy-to-let investors can profit from this The years of low mortgage rates that have benefited investors in UK residential investment property look like they’re coming to an end. Combined with tougher lending rules, and changes to mortgage tax relief that are being phased in ...
UK property investors will benefit for years to come Over the long term, property investment in the UK has outperformed all other major investment assets. When you buy a residential investment property, you’re investing in an asset that pays a better income yield than stocks, bonds, and cash. If you invested ...
Leatherhead is a commuter town brimming with potential. Located around 44 minutes from central London’s major employment hubs Waterloo and Victoria, it’s the perfect place for commuting professionals and families priced out of central London. ...
Helping overseas investors pay less tax on UK property investment Tax should be a four-letter word. If you don’t plan for it, a tax can severely damage your wealth. Like cigarettes, they could come with a government warning. Now, while I don’t think that tax should be the reason to invest ...
Prime commuter belt properties just 25 minutes to central London. Hertsmere is an archetypal middle-class home counties district in the south of the prosperous county of Hertfordshire. Just beyond the northern boundary of Greater London, yet within the popular London commuter belt. The region covers some 39 square miles and ...
Why property investors ignore geography and select location There’s one rule in property investment that everyone has heard: investment return depends on ‘location, location, location’. It’s such an important concept that there has even been a property investment television series named after it. ...
How Property Investors with Little Time Can Invest in New Build and Off Plan Property using a Regeneration Strategy and Where Exactly to Invest.
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