The brand new The Property Voice website has launched this week and as time goes by it will develop in a number of ways. This post today will focus on just one of the new features the site will have over and beyond the previous Scoop.it curated news feed service found here: … [Read more...]
How to Go Broke in Real Estate, Pick Yourself Up & Try Again
Read this...yes really, do read this: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/10/how-to-go-broke-in-real-estate-pick-yourself-up-and-try-again/ ...and when you do...think of these two things: Research & due diligence Education & advice Having passion, energy, a plan and even a … [Read more...]
Two little spoken of attributes of property investing
Two little spoken of attributes of being a successful property investor are momentum and certainty. This piece by Kylie my fellow blogger and property investor illustrates these quite well I think. One self-sourced deal collapses after five months, as two more from a sourcer are added to one … [Read more...]
BTL investments requiring no work are better investments…or are they?
Aha! We have the answer to the question, which is the better property investment – the classic ‘doer-upper’ or the perfect ‘ready-to-rent’ property? It is the one with the best gross yield right? Well, no not necessarily… Gross yield is the total annual rent divided by the total purchase price, or … [Read more...]
Furnished properties earn up to 35% more rent
I have heard it said that the best marketing means being the market leader, so going for the masses and volume, or instead focusing on a niche successfully and therefore commanding a price premium but in a smaller market. I would imagine the idea of mass-market property rentals is not going to … [Read more...]
A Slow, Boring, Incredibly Awesome Strategy for Building Wealth Through Passive Real Estate Investing
There are at least a dozen ways to make a turn from residential property investing...here are just some of them: Flips (or buy-to-sell) HMOs (houses of multiple occupation rented by the room) Holiday / short-term rentals (renting by the week) Forced appreciation (the classic 'doer-upper' with … [Read more...]
Maps: Where cheap property prices & cheap commuter train lines meet
One of my favourite film series is The Matrix, where our hero Neo seeks to uncover the system of deception within The Matrix to expose the truth. Here today we have another type of matrix - where the three variables of house prices, commuter travel times and train fares overlap to form a 3-way … [Read more...]
Commuter towns set to roar…don’t miss the train!
As investors we should be looking to target rental areas which will produce decent overall returns - a combination of rental income and capital growth, coupled with good rental demand and at an affordable cost of entry. There is much talk of the London property market and many investors swear by it … [Read more...]
How best to measure our property investment returns?
House prices are rising...Rents are rising...Yields are rising...good news as it is but: how can they all be rising when rents and house prices are part of the opposite sides of the yield equation? Well it’s all about the numbers… So, in order to answer this we should look at the concept of yield … [Read more...]
School catchment area properties are a bonus for landlords
How many times have we heard the term that successful property investing is all about 3 things: location, location, location? I will refer to 3 aspects of this principle as the 'STA checklist' here. So what does this 'STA checklist' actually mean in practice? This news article's main focus is on … [Read more...]
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