Well, according to research from HSBC, it is, with average gross buy to let yields of 7.82%. Now, I have to say, I’m not sure how HSBC conducted their research. The inference from the press release seems to be that they looked at yields in the locations where there is the greatest proportion of rented…
We all know that trying to predict will happen is a mugs game, nobody really knows and, in my opinion, if they turn out to be right, chances are they just had a lucky guess! But as property investors, especially those of us with existing portfolios, it makes sense to keep an eye on what…
In this short series of post we’ve looked at a simple, but often overlooked, system to plan for success, which we can use to plan for 2015 to be our best year (in property) ever. Because the simple truth is that, unless we start to plan for success in 2015 now, the chances are that…
In the previous posts we’ve started to look at a simple, but often overlooked process to plan for success, and which we can use to make 2015 our best year (in property) ever. Because the simple truth is, that unless we start to plan for success in 2015 now, the chances are that most of…
In this series of posts we have recognised that unless we start to plan now for success in 2015, at best 2015 is going to be yet another mediocre year, or worse. If we want 2015 to be our best year (in property) ever we need to plan for it now. In the previous post…
In my previous post we recognised that unless we start to plan now for success in 2015, at best 2015 is going to be yet another mediocre year, or worse. But we also saw that by planning now, we can make 2015 our best year in property ever. But the key question is, what does…
Please excuse my language but 2015 is going to be a cr@p year. Okay, it may not be that bad, (although for many of us it will be) but unless we start to plan now the chances are it’s going to be mediocre at best, in fact probably disappointingly similar to many years that have…
I’m sure that where I live we are still waiting for The Ripple Effect to arrive, but rumours of it being on its way seem to have been enough to encourage estate agents to top-load the prices of properties coming onto the market. If you’re not sure what I mean by ‘The Ripple Effect’, in…
I was talking to a property investor friend of mine the other day who was bemoaning the fact that rapidly increasing property prices in his area had made his buying strategy redundant, and left him in a dilemma as to whether he should even be buying and adding to his buy to let portfolio. Until…