Attempting to help people understand how to compare buy-to-let investment returns against a pension is obviously a very good idea. This article from Kate Faulkner on Landlordzone makes a decent fist of starting to consider some of the factors involved in assessing a buy-to-let investment, so that we … [Read more...]
Rental Affordability in UK Cities – Top & Bottom 5
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...]
Silly question from a novice property investor…Really?
Today's feature is inspired by a reader's question on the Property Hub Forum, which goes as follows [edited]: ."..Although I haven't fully formed goal strategy yet, however, I do know I want to be a hands off landlord. I’d also prefer to buy new(ish) properties and am looking to rent unfurnished to … [Read more...]
My Top Three Metrics When Evaluating A Property Investment Opportunity
Image credit: © Ron Hilton | Dreamstime Stock Photos A great, simple question and one I am happy to contribute to...what are my top three metrics when assessing an investment property? It may vary slightly depending on the investing strategy adopted, so a flip might be different to a … [Read more...]
How do you compare to the Property Hub investor membership?
The Property Hub reveal the results of their BIG survey here in this infographic and in more traditional infowords here: The Property Hub BIG Survey Investors typically start investing aged 26 to 35, have just under 5 investment properties and intend to grow their portfolios...or is that a false … [Read more...]
New Buy-to-let index from Lendinvest
If you have followed my insights for any time at all, you will know that I love to uncover good sources to go to for housing market data and so when I heard about a new BTL index I had to take a look. LendInvest have started a new index looking at yields, house prices / capital growth and a couple … [Read more...]
Reigning in the new kid on the block: Bid to stop airbnb-style lets…but would it work here?
Short-term rentals are a trend on the increase and worth keeping an eye on. Over the past week or two I have stayed at a couple of airbnb and other rental listings providers’ properties and will do the same again next week. I have also stayed in a similarly priced room in a lodge sourced through … [Read more...]
Holiday rentals: where is the most profitable location and is it that simple?
Holiday rentals in general is one niche within the investment property market that does not get a lot of media attention from an investment point of view. This survey is useful therefore in raising awareness if nothing else, although given that it is generated by a holiday rentals agency, we have to … [Read more...]
The secret credit reference agency…Big Brother is watching you…
Ever had that feeling that someone is watching you? Do you feel like you are living in a Big Brother world, where the average Brit caught on CCTV 300 times per day? Earlier this week I had the same feeling; it was fortunately for a less sinister reason – my parents were on my mind and so I … [Read more...]
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