As investors we should be looking to target rental areas which will produce decent overall returns - a combination of rental income and capital growth, coupled with good rental demand and at an affordable cost of entry. There is much talk of the London property market and many investors swear by it … [Read more...]
Property Club Scams…and how to avoid them
Giving our hard earned savings to a shark can get us bitten and I have spoken about this recently. But we could also get dragged off a cliff by a well-meaning property businessman through bad business decisions, incompetence or just bad luck as well if we are not careful. At face value it does … [Read more...]
Mortgages: fixed rate or variable – time to stick or twist?
Stick or twist? There has been a number of articles of late about this subject - fixing your buy-to-let interest rate. With talk of unemployment falling to the Bank of England's threshold to consider an interest rate rise, undoubtedly we investors need to make judgments and plans for the future … [Read more...]
Live the dream as a property millionaire…caveat emptor!
Live the dream! But first take heed...Caveat Emptor... I have seen Raj, the main speaker at the event profiled in this article before, I previously attended an Inside Track seminar on property investing and paid a tidy sum for the privilege to do so but did not proceed to invest with them. The … [Read more...]
How best to measure our property investment returns?
House prices are rising...Rents are rising...Yields are rising...good news as it is but: how can they all be rising when rents and house prices are part of the opposite sides of the yield equation? Well it’s all about the numbers… So, in order to answer this we should look at the concept of yield … [Read more...]