Reasons to invest and reasons to take care When you speak to sales agents, you will rarely find one that paints anything other than a rosy picture of buying London off plan developments. Certainly, as a property investment strategy goes, ...

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Get the research right to buy the right property If you read the press, then you might think that making a profit as a property investor is as easy as pulling a name out of a hat or putting a ...

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Is a limited company structure right for your property investment? If you’re a higher rate taxpayer, or you might be in the future, you could save a huge amount of tax by setting up a limited company to buy property. ...

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Property investment will be taxed differently – are you prepared? There’s been a lot of negative press about property investment since George Osbourne started to change the UK property tax rules. Stamp duty has increased, the way that mortgage interest is dealt with ...

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When we first start out at something new, making mistakes is one of the ways we learn to improve. This is a process that starts as soon as we’re born: learning to talk and walk is only the beginning of ...

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Let-to-rent as the property investor’s springboard When first thinking about investing in property, you might consider how to release capital from the equity in your existing home in order to fund your first purchase. But if you haven’t yet taken ...

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A property company as a tax umbrella When Mary Jones (not her real name) was investigating property investment, she had a few concerns. Her major worry was that, as an additional-rate taxpayer, a big portion of her income would be ...

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