All posts by Mark Alexander

41,700 buy-to-let Limited companies formed in 2020...
Research by Hamptons Countrywide has revealed that 41,700 buy-to-let Limited Companies were formed last year, which is a new record. In fact, the only category of Limited Company formations to beat...

Landlord Incorporation – Company Indemnity of Existing...
The following quote, confirming that refinancing is NOT necessary at the point of incorporation, comes directly from the HMRC manual …
“The transferor is not required to transfer business...

Join me this evening – 9th December 2020...
I am really pleased to be part of something very exciting this evening (9th December 2020).
Simon Zutshi, the founder of property investors network (pin), has invited me and four other industry...

CGT REVIEW proposals discussion recorded Live on YouTube...
The Office of Tax Simplification has published its proposals to Chancellor Rishi Sunak in regards to CGT.
A link to the 131 page document can be found HERE.
The Breaking News Live video was hosted by...

Research into sustainability at lowest end of the Private...
Property118 is no stranger to assisting the Univerisity of York with research into the UK Private Rented sector “PRS”.
In 2014 Property118 members’ contributed significantly to this...

Why didn’t my accountant tell me about this?
Series two, Episode one of Property118 TV has just been released.
Grab yourself a cuppa and within just 12 minutes and 27 seconds exactly you’re about to feel how neanderthal men felt when they...

British Ex-Pat Bank Accounts to be CLOSED...
Hundreds of thousands of British Ex-Pats living in the EU will have received a shock letter in the last few days.
Customers of Nat-West, Coutts, RBS, Barclays, Bank of Scotland and Halifax are among...

Do not settle for an ORDINARY property company structure...
If your strategy is to acquire further investment properties within a Limited Company structure, please do not settle for an “ordinary shares” structure.
The existence of ordinary shares...

Mitigating IHT on property growth...
Just suppose you’re buying a rental property right now for say £200,000.
Is it reasonable to assume that it will probably double in value in your lifetime?
If so, and assuming your net assets...

My goals for Property118 in 2021...
Before the end of 2021 I want every person who buys a UK property for rental investment to able to make an informed choice about the optimal ownership structure to meet their short, medium and long...