Cashflow Is Back In Fashion But Rent Isn’t Pure Profit
Why cashflow, not just capital growth, is what deserves scrutiny before you buy in today’s higher-rate market.
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Why Yield Alone Won’t Tell You If a Deal Is Any Good
A worked example showing why Return on Capital Employed, not headline yield, tells you if a deal actually stacks up.
Landlords Are Selling Up — But It’s Not Quite That Simple
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…
Compliance Might Become an Investment Edge
New rules on HHSRS, the PRS database, EPC C and Decent Homes Standard are stacking up for landlords. Here’s why the gap between organised and disorganised investors is about to get much wider.
What Is HHSRS, And Why Should Investors Care?
HHSRS is changing from June 2026. Here’s what the new Low, Medium and High hazard ratings actually mean for landlords, and why it’s worth reviewing what you already own.
Are Buy to Let Landlords Selling Up in Big Numbers?
Buy to let landlords sold 35,000 more properties than they bought in 2022, with the rental sector losing an average of 66 buy to let properties a day last year, according to analysis by agents Hamptons. Hamptons also says 140,000 people stopped being landlords in 2022, and 96,000 are expected to follow suit…
Are Buy to Let Landlords Really Selling Up in 2023?
Is the Private Rental Sector Losing Landlords? Since December 2021, we’ve been hearing a lot about landlords exiting the Private Rental Sector. The narrative goes that rising interest rates, increased mortgages, and political factors have led to this trend. But is this really the case? According to analysis conducted by estate agents…
Is Buy to Let an Outdated Property Investment Model?
A comment which I sometimes see made on social media, like on the Facebook, on different sorts of property groups on Facebook, is that buy to let is an outdated model. In fact sometimes people will come to my YouTube channel and do little troll type posts saying ‘Buy to let is dead, property investing…
How I Managed to Do a Great Deal on This Buy to Let
Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. This happened to me a while back when I sent my son in law around to inspect a potential buy to let property for me. It raises the question, how much is a bucket of dirty rainwater actually worth? Every cloud…
Why I Think Buy to Let is a Fantastic Investment
In this video I want to talk about the upside, the benefits, the things that are great about owning property and being a buy to let investor. Number one on my list, and probably very top of my list, is the ability to be able to create equity in a property. If you like, that’s…