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UPDATE – 31st March 2014 Since publishing this article our campaign has raised over £450,000 and legal action has now commenced. The official closing date for borrowers to be represented in...

This weekend I came across a person who could become to landlordism what the legendary Roy Brooks was to the world of Estate Agency. His name is Mick Roberts and he operates in the Nottingham area...

This question was recently asked on a property forum and inspired me to write this post. A spreadsheet could be written to crunch the numbers and I will explain how I do this further into this post.

“I measure my business related success by how much I improve my cashflow and my bank balance every year.” The beginning of my career was spent working in financial rescue.  It was...

In January 2008 I refinanced my entire portfolio in line with my ongoing strategy.  There was an opportunity to release equity and I took it.

Paying tradesmen for cash in the hand jobs seems like a good idea at the time – but ends up costing landlords more. The problem is only the tradesmen win when a landlord hands over cash for a...

Buy to let property investors pay too much tax because they do not know how to claim property business expenses. The sad fact is many accountants and tax advisers are little or no help because they do...

By Mike Woodfine, Co-founder of The Money Centre. Interest margins are extortionate – you need an unsecured loan to pay lenders arrangement fees – loan to values are just down right...

By Mark Alexander. I closed my first Sale and Rent Back, “SARB”, deal in 1990. It wasn’t for me personally though and it wasn’t a property deal either. I had just set up a...

It was 1992, we were at the tail of the property crash of the late 80’s and early 90’s. I was still cutting my teeth in the market of providing commercial finance broking facilities to...