We wrote a blog article recently which referenced the need to choose buy-to-let investments using head over heart but even this sound advice comes with a caveat. If you truly buy with your head – so be that buying family homes when you’re young, free and single or buying in Leicester when you [...]
On the day of one of the most important deadlines for all for buy-to-let investors (you've submitted, haven't you?) - we've rounded up the top five headaches for those managing property. That sinking feeling come 31 January. In 2015 there were 500,000 UK tax payers registered with the HMRC [...]
A search of ‘buy-to-let UK’ on Google at present returns a myriad of stories foretelling the end of the sector as we know it. In addition, a slightly smaller offering of tip and hints aimed at those who still feel strongly that this is an area in which to invest money. You’d be [...]
The most recent edition of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Residential Market Survey has been released and with it another prediction of buy-to-let sell off and resultant rental squeeze. The survey is carried out monthly and is a sentiment survey of Chartered Surveyors operating in the [...]
Fortune favours the brave. The popular, often military, Latin-origin proverb may well be apt for those of us buying or managing property for let in the next year or so. We’ve written extensively about changes in legislation which will force buy-to-let investors to consider their options when it comes [...]
According to Britain’s Buy to Let Report (fifth edition) released by Kent Reliance, the number of private rental households in the UK by the end of Q3 of 2016 increased by around 300,000 versus the same period in 2015. Nationwide, however, tells a different story, reporting that they lent £100 million less in [...]
And so, we enter the week in which President-Elect Trump will be inaugurated. And as we do so, our politicians, economists and citizens will turn their attention to the USA to understand what impact this change will have on the domestic and global economy. Not only will the White [...]
