Tag: property investment
Landlords profit from your portfolio
How do landlords profit from their residential investments and make their property portfolio into a successful business investment? An expert from a national chain of online letting agents advises on how to keep costs down and rents up. Landlords also need to consider what is the optimum size for their investment portfolio. Build scale & […]
How big can you grow?
How I started my property portfolio How do landlords start to build their residential investment portfoIio? I started my residential investment portfolio back in the early 90’s. We had just had the 80’s housing boom and the economy had slumped into a depression which lead to rising unemployment and falling house prices. Sounds familiar? I […]
Beware Of Property Gurus
Property gurus & experts The rise in the buy-to-let residential investment market has been accompanied by the appearance of the so called ‘property guru’ or expert. These ‘gurus’ spend all their time instructing property investors how they too can make millions out of investing in residential property if they just follow their plan. This normally […]
Becoming a student landlord
Should landlords let to students? Students can make good tenants & here’s why: 1. You can fit more of them into a house. A 3 bed house will frequently accommodate 4 sharers – and that’s without letting the cupboard! This is more intensive than a let to a single tenant or even a house of […]
Should I invest in a buy-to-let pension?
Buy-to-let pensions Many property investors and landlords have always seen their buy-to-let property portfolio as their pension. The changes in the pension legislation has allowed pensioners to draw down part of their pension as a tax free lump sum suitable as the deposit for a buy-to-let investment. Is buy-to-let a suitable replacement or addition as […]
Valuing a landlord’s property
How to value a landlord’s property? On the face of it this seems a pretty straight forward question to answer and one in my professional capacity of surveyor I was asked many times. For instance a landlord may have had their residential investment property valued recently. They may have needed it valued for a remortgage. […]
Property investment strategies
What are my property investment strategies? I have had over 20 years in the landlord game and I’ve seen a fair few changes so is it time for me to reassess my property investment strategies? In the early days of BTL in the late 80’s, and pre buy-to-let there was little to no purpose built […]
Successful residential property investment
Rules of successful residential property investment I’m often asked by new landlords do I have any basic tips on successful property investment strategies for investing in residential property. I respond by highlighting 3 essential aspects to making a landlord’s residential investment a success. These I have called my three pillars of investment and they […]
Property Investment Talk
I’m conscious we are well into New Year and I’ve not engaged in any property investment talk. Landlords across the UK are no doubt head down and knee deep in their landlord tax return paper work. I’ve not started mine yet as always it gets done but no doubt I will go to the wire […]
Finding Buy-To-Let (BTL) Property
For those investors looking at buying or expanding their residential portfolio in the New Year here are 10 tips to finding buy-to-let (BTL) property. Landlords looking at bagging a property bargain also check out our tips on finding investment property. Before you plunge headlong into buying a buy-to-let investment do consider alternative to direct property […]
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