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We live in a world where every second counts, stocks and shares can be bought in a split second and everything moves so quickly. However, the world of property investment has seen ...
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The mortgage loan industry is extremely competitive with loans now dependent upon affordability calculations. While this has had an impact on the buy to let market, even though ren...
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As we touched on in our recent article, the UK government is looking to introduce yet another level of bureaucracy and cost in the shape of a new redress scheme. Politicians are ex...
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In theory building up a buy to let portfolio is fairly simple. You research properties which fit your criteria, find a tenant and sit back while the rental income flows into your c...
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It is rather ironic that buy to let investors in the UK seem to have been targeted by the government because of a buoyant property market brought on by government inaction. Momentu...
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NatWest has been forced to defend its decision to refuse an extension to a buy to let mortgage because the tenant was in receipt of housing benefit. In fairness, NatWest is one of ...
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Despite the fact that the UK housing market is under something of a cloud due to Brexit concerns, there is a strong backbone running through the sector. Even though the UK governme...
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If you’re a landlord and are looking to release equity in your BTL property without changing your mortgage rates, a buy to let secured loan could be what you are looking for. The...
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It is difficult to comprehend why the UK government has decided to reduce and eventually eliminate mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let investments. Let’s not forget that t...
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As the UK government staggers from disaster to disaster in Brexit negotiations there seems to be a growing consensus that the buy to let market will suffer. Already we have seen so...
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Despite the fact that the UK government induced the house price buying frenzy back in the 1980s with the “right to buy” on council property, it seems those days are over. A rep...
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While there is no doubt that UK buy to let investors have been hammered by the government of late the situation seems to be very different in Ireland. A number of experts believe t...
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When looking at a buy to let investment many people fall into the trap of assuming the gross rental income as a percentage of the cost of a property gives them the annual return. T...
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Data collected by UK Finance has cast a very interesting light on the UK buy to let market. It will come as no surprise to learn that buy to let investment is down across the
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It is easy to get wrapped up in the apparent doom and gloom surrounding the UK and in particular the UK property market. Despite the fact that so-called “experts” have been hig...
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The last couple of years have seen some major changes in the UK buy to let market. The cost of acquiring property and maintaining a buy to let service has increased dramatically ov...
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The UK government White Paper earlier this week on the property market has created some eye-catching headlines. There seems to be a step back from the homeownership promise in the ...
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently released a raft of information regarding changes in the UK property market in recent times. We will cover some of the informat...
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What is distressed property? A distressed property is a property that is under a foreclosure order or is advertised for sale by its mortgagee. This type of property usually fetch...
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On the surface many people seem to assume that the UK buy to let property market is relatively simple, easy to make money with little in the way of risk. In theory, the way that
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