Tapping into the equity in your home . . . Using the equity your own home to finance another purchase is not always the ideal solution, but for many people it's the easiest choice. For some, it's the only choice. For some people, it's a choice so scary that it's ...
Investment News - New coalition, new investment landscape Just this week the Tories and the Liberal Democrats released the UK Coalition program. With dread, I picked it up and devoured it and today I'm going to discuss some of the issues around it. In the video, I've drawn out some ...
Energy Performance certificate Home information packs (HIPS) are dead, finally those terrible and useless things are suspended by the government. They haven't cancelled them totally as they are written into law and until the law is changed they cannot legally cancel them. ...
Investment News - Keep on saving I am still in sunny Australia. This week I bring you the investment news from the balcony across the Jupiters Casino in the Gold Coast. So this week, we'll make a comparison between the UK and the Australian Government to see why the Aussie's ...
Property Investment News - The general election commences I am bringing this week's property investment news from Phuket, Thailand as I am nearing to the end of my holiday. So this week the General Election has well and truly began with the battle between Labour and the Conservatives heating up. ...
Investment News - New pre-election budget Following yesterday's pre-election budget speech from Alistair Darling, we look at some of today's headlines... Stamp duty cut for first-time buyers - is this really a good strategy to bring them onto the market, or a way to prop up house prices to the ...
The worst things to happen to my portfolio nightmares It might be a scary headline but I was asked at a CEO round table the other day what ‘horrific' things have happened to my investment property portfolio nightmares. I think that they expected me to tell them horrific stories of how ...
The dangers of obscure securities This past two years I have spent many hours helping clients out who have bought properties through a multitude of property companies. Now this in itself isn't wrong, but the mistake they have made is that the investment properties are based on ‘obscure' securities. Buying ...
Landlord and gas leak appliances the most important responsibilities I have had quite a fun week, actually Arlene may not quite agree with me as we apparently could have been blown up by the gas leak. Let me explain: Our gas stove was leaking, we had no idea about gas ...
Don't be caught out by the fine print I was speaking with Karen over the past few weeks about lettings stories for the book we are writing and one of the things I realised was that many clients simply don't read the documents they sign, let alone the fine print ...
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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