Remember these costs to assess a property’s real income potential When considering a residential investment property opportunity, beginner investors often get so excited about the rental income potential that they fail to fully allow for the costs associated with a property. Sure, you will remember to include the costs of ...
Before you invest, make sure you know a property’s rental income When you are conducting your due diligence, you must discover how much your investment property is likely to make in rental income. If your property doesn’t produce the rent you expect, you’re going to have to either subsidise it ...
How do you know it is real regeneration? In a previous article, I posted some questions that you should ask before you invest in property covering an area’s history and four of its current property fundamentals (shops, schools, transport, and major employers). Getting the answers to those few questions will ...
Research – the foundation of successful investment property portfolios Research is the foundation on which successful investment property sits. Just like when you build a house on sand, if you build a portfolio without properly researching property investment opportunities first it will crumble, fall down, lose value, and cost you ...
Regeneration and a forward-looking council are driving business and residential growth I think it was Julia Roberts, in Pretty Woman, who said she was so excited that she was “peeing her pants”. Or something like that. Anyway, whatever it was that she said exactly, it’s how I feel about property ...
Rent, rent-to-let, buy, or buy-to-rent: all options are open in Orpington With property prices in London seemingly at a plateau, house buyers and property investors are looking elsewhere for opportunity. We think that opportunity is Orpington property. It’s a place that is within easy reach of work and play and ...
8 steps and 10 minutes is all it takes to decide on a property investment As I explained in a recent article, doing the comprehensive research needed to make sure a property investment opportunity is packed with potential takes a lot of time. The 89-point due diligence report takes around ...
Invest in property at the perfect time instead One of the biggest limiters to successful property investment at the outset is the ‘need’ to find the ‘perfect property’. It’s going to be hard enough to find a property that meets the stringent criteria needed for success, and passes through the ...
Research methods used by successful property investors To ensure you buy in the best places to invest in UK property, research is key. In my last article, I described the property investment research framework that works for all. Read that article, and you’ll learn about our due diligence framework. We ...
Top-down property research explained If you were investing in a stock market fund, you would expect the fund manager to have conducted some in-depth research before buying shares. You would expect the underlying fundamentals to support the long-term growth of the stocks that are being bought and put into your ...
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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