What will my exit strategy be if I ever want to get out of investing in property and want to sell my buy to let property investments? It might seem a bit premature to ask this question before we start, but it’ll almost certainly be far to late if we leave it until we need…
There we go. Proves there’s some truth in the saying “There’s lies, damn lies and statistics”. When it comes to house prices you can hold any opinion and be right! Of course, to be fair, there are a number of different house price indices, and the methodology for each is different. but, as just one…
In the old days (which was up until about 2 years ago) we had the choice of buying our buy to let investment properties into either a limited company, or our own names, (or something fancy like a trust). That is unless we were doing something like flipping (buying and selling-on) in which it worked…
Ok, there’s a bit of artistic licence there but the Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index for July 2017 has just come out. As I’ve said before, if you want to know what’s really happening in the UK market, and not rely on general stats and indices, this is the one to watch. Hometrack are…
It’s easy to assume that the money won’t be available for buying our property investments. After all, isn’t money hard to get? Who would lend to me? I’m only just starting in buy to let. The reality is very different, the money is there if we look and ask. The one thing which stops…
There’s an interesting report out, prepared by the Resolution Foundation think tank, and reported by the BBC News website. Summarising the BBC summary, it says 1 in 10 adults owns a second home or investment property (and which includes those who own multiple second homes and investment properties) whilst 1 in 4 adults don’t own any property. Interestingly it…
As we continue the 12 questions every (buy to let) property investor should ask them selves at regular intervals, in this video we think about question 7, “have I got the right plan to find and buy my properties?” Because the questions are sequential the plan will reflect what we are trying to achieve in…
In this short series of videos we are looking at the twelve questions I think every investor should ask themselves when they start in property and certainly as they go along through their property journey, just to make sure that they are still on track and doing the right things. And in the last video…
Question 5 – What Type of Property Fits My Strategy? Hi, Peter Jones, chartered surveyor, author and property investor and in this short series of videos we are looking at the twelve questions which I think every property investor should ask themselves when they begin in property and regularly as they go through their property…
In this short series of videos we are looking at the twelve questions which I think every property investor should ask themselves when they begin in property and regularly as they go through their property journey to make sure that they are still on track and doing the right things. And question number four is…