Property Investment Strategies
Blogs sharing property investment strategies and opinions from UK buy to let property investors and landlords
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Questions to ask a Property Sourcer
Two of the UK’s largest buy to let mortgage providers have introduced a criteria not to accept mortgage applications for properties...
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Sell or hold after completing a refurbishment?
This question was recently asked on a property forum and inspired me to write this post.
A spreadsheet could be written to crunch the...
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The roots of my Property Investment Strategy
“I measure my business related success by how much I improve my cashflow and my bank balance every year.”
The beginning...
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How I maximise the returns on my liquidity fund (cash in ...
In January 2008 I refinanced my entire portfolio in line with my ongoing strategy. There was an opportunity to release equity and...
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Buy to let strategy – the 20% liquidity reserve rule of t...
This rule of thumb is very simple. If you have £100,000 of buy to let mortgages you should have £20,000 in the bank.
This article...
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Running a buy to let business as a limited company
Buy to let landlords making big rental profits and looking to save tax often flirt with the idea of running their business through...
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Landlords lose out by paying cash-in-the-hand
Paying tradesmen for cash in the hand jobs seems like a good idea at the time – but ends up costing landlords more.
The problem...
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