After forty years as a property professional and investor, I’ve watched two recessions take out investors who had done everything that looked sensible when the market was rising. The ones who came through weren’t lucky — they’d just made different decisions. Here’s what those decisions were.
If your rental properties still aren’t producing the income you hoped for years on, it might be time for an honest review. Here’s a practical sequence: fix the basics, review the finance, then decide whether to rebalance or change strategy.
There are over a million empty homes in England. When investors buy and renovate them, why is profit treated as suspicious rather than as the reward for solving a problem no one else would take on?
Why cashflow, not just capital growth, is what deserves scrutiny before you buy in today’s higher-rate market.
A worked example showing why Return on Capital Employed, not headline yield, tells you if a deal actually stacks up.
Why the quiet, unglamorous ‘plodder’ approach to buy-to-let often beats complicated strategies over the long run.
Landlord numbers are down but portfolio sizes are up. What the professionalisation of buy-to-let means for investors still in the game.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that landlords are selling 700 properties a day, but it’s worth looking at this again because it’s a staggering number. Actually, to be precise, Savills estimates that 254,000 previously let buy-to-let homes were listed for sale in the 12 months to the end of March. That works out at…
Asking prices dipped in July for reasons that have nothing to do with a market top, while rents keep hitting new records. Why the current combination favours buyers who are ready to act.
New data on landlord sales and purchases shows the arithmetic of exiting buy-to-let has changed since the Renters’ Rights Act, and why staying put now looks more attractive to some investors.