Would you have put Glasgow, Leeds & Cardiff in the top 5 cities in terms of rental affordability? Perhaps. What about the least in rental affordability?...London & Edinburgh are gimmes though? If you picked Oxford or Manchester, you would be wrong it seems... Interesting, if not wholly … [Read more...]
Property Research and Due Diligence is a Whizz with Property Wizza
I was updating the Research Section Section 3 of The Property Voice - Investor Toolkit the other day. I counted something like 33 web links in the section and of course I wanted to a) check the links were still working and b) take a quick look at them to see if anything had changed. I found that one … [Read more...]
Buy-to-let slush fund – what’s the right level?
Why do we need to have a buy-to-let slush fund? There are a number of costs and expenses we know in advance, or at least are fairly predictable with buy-to-let investments. For example the interest on a mortgage is quite easy to calculate, as too are letting fees, insurance, regular checks like … [Read more...]
Buy-to-let is for mugs! Or is it?
I was recently asked for my views on this YouTube video on Buy-to-Let posted by Graham Rowan, The Renegade Investor (note there's more than one out there). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_--oB3Hfic So, when asked what I thought when Graham suggested Buy-to-Let investors are mugs, here is my … [Read more...]
Debt / equity ratio in property investment – what is right?
A common dilemma faced by property investors is this: Now that I have started to build my BTL portfolio and achieved some equity growth; should I pull out the increased equity and reinvest by refinancing or leave it there to reduce the debt / equity ratio and enjoy some of the steadily rising … [Read more...]
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