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BEST OF THE BTL BLOGS
Published on: 20th July 2008
The last couple of weeks on the landlord and BTL blog has been full of chatter on a whole range of topics concerning todays landlords. Buy-to-let worth the hassle? There has been some debate about whether buy-to-let is now worth the hassle. Margo is having problem with her plumbing is not convinced where as Hawkeye […]
Top Auction Opportunities
Published on: 16th July 2008
In association with EIG the specialist property auction information website Property Hawk has searched the nations auction rooms (from the comfort of our office) and put together a collection of examples of some of the prices paid at auction over the last few weeks together with other opportunities that are coming up. Examples of high […]
Property Auction Guidance
Warren Buffet the famous investor and world richest man is responsible for one of the greatest investment quotes of all time. He famously said in connection to investment psychology: “be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful.” If any sentiment might correctly describe the approach landlords should take in […]
Eliminating Void Periods
Published on: 14th July 2008
One of the greatest scourges of a landlord is the rental void. This is where a residential investment property remains empty whilst a landlord still has to pick up the bills for their buy-to-let mortgage and other property maintenance costs. Where do professional landlords go for their buy-to-let insurance? Discount Lettings a company specialising in […]
The Property Rebound
Published on: 9th July 2008
It is impossible for landlords to escape from the doom laden projections of falling house prices, a slumping economy combined with rising overheads such as our buy-to-let mortgage costs. All this leaves us property investors with a slightly depressed feel. I have always attempted to take the long term view. Just as over the last […]
Inflation – A Landlords’ Saviour
Published on: 2nd July 2008
I confess I’m old enough to remember the 70’s – the flares – discos – the collars and above everything else – INFLATION. But not just the paltry 2 or 3 % inflation of recent year but proper double digit inflation of the type that meant that the price of a Marathon went from 2 […]
BTL mortgages – landlord’s options
Impact on Landlords One of the impacts on the buy-to-let mortgage market coming out of the “credit crunch” is the massive contraction in lending. The result is that landlords need to search harder than ever for a buy-to-let mortgage that is right for them. Pre-credit cunch life for landlords was easy: Thousands of buy-to-let mortgages; […]
ARLA mis-selling or mis-leading?
Published on: 1st July 2008
Property Hawk would like to welcome the Property Bear (again no relation, as with the Property Snake) to its’ growing list of commentators. In many ways his dilemma is different to that of us landlords in that he is property light having sold his house in September 2006. The Property Bear now agonises and ponders […]
BEST OF THE BTL BLOGS
Published on: 28th June 2008
It’s been another week of feverish activity on the buy-to-let blog. Firstly I’d like to welcome two more bloggers to the team. Belvoir Lettings have joined to give their unique view on what is happening in the lettings market from the point of view of a national letting agent. Claire 3T a full time property […]
LANDLORDS AND ‘SEX IN THE CITY’
Published on: 24th June 2008
Many landlords were lured over the past 5 years by the marketing campaigns of the house builders and property developers into parting with their hard earned cash and investing in new residential apartments within our city centres. But how much of this decision making was based on investment principles and how much related to more […]
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