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Hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially in property

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.  If we had known how every successive generation was going to hold us up to...

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Check your rental properties for common damages warns AIIC

Author: This article was written by guest author - Association of Independent Inventory Clerks

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is warning all landlords and management companies to check each rental property thoroughly...

My 1,000th post on my favourite Property Forum

Author: Mark Alexander

8th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The following is an extract from my 1,000th discussion on Property Tribes (my favourite property forum). I asked the members...

Due Diligence – By Mark Alexander

Author: Mark Alexander

27th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

I am constantly amazed when I hear that people spend a fortune on property education courses or invest their pension...

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Buy to let mortgage deals hot up for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New lenders are eyeing buy-to-let as others are shaping up their deals to give landlords a wider choice of rates...

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How I choose my tenants

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Please remember that my properties are all mid range to upper end of the market.  My typical tenant profile is...

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How I minimise property management issues

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Please remember that my properties are all mid range to upper end of market properties aimed at the professional tenants...

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How I minimise rental voids

Author: Mark Alexander

4th February 2011, 15 years ago | 6

A one month rental void accounts for 8.33% of your annual rental income.  For many landlords this is the difference...

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Where would you go to find cash rich investors to JV with you?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th December 2010, 15 years ago | 1

I ask this question purely out of interest.  I am NOT looking for JV partners. 

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The roots of my Property Investment Strategy

Author: Mark Alexander

17th December 2010, 15 years ago | 24

“I measure my business related success by how much I improve my cashflow and my bank balance every year.” The...

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How I maximise the returns on my liquidity fund (cash in the bank)

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th December 2010, 15 years ago | 9

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

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Buy to let strategy – the 20% liquidity reserve rule of thumb

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd December 2010, 15 years ago | 8

This rule of thumb is very simple.  If you have £100,000 of buy to let mortgages you should have £20,000...

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What’s more important, cashflow or liquidity? Mark Alexander reports

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Cashflow is simply defined as regular income. Positive cashflow is when income exceeds expenditure and you make a profit. So...

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Birmingham Midshires to restrict lending to three buy to let mortgages per landlord. Lloyds squeeze this market further by refusing to lend on more than three buy to lets across all of their brands.

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Peter Curran, Head of Intermediary Distribution at Lloyds Banking Group recently announced, “From 25 September, buy to let property portfolios...

Is your property portfolio ownership structure optimised to enable you to pay the minimum amount of CGT, income tax and IHT?

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 14

In this article I look at the differences between owning property as joint tenants, tenants in common or as individuals....

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Investors see homes double in value in the last 10 years according to a survey from the Halifax.

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Property investors have seen homes double in value over the past 10 years despite the ups and downs of recession....

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Buy to let bonanza as rents set to soar.

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Increasing tenant demand and a fall in the number of properties available to let are driving rents higher, says the...

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Land Registry Reports house prices rise by 6.7% in past year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

House prices are pretty much at a stand still this year although prices are up an average 6.7% for all...

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Landlords eager to expand buy-to-let portfolios. Report from LSL Property Services

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

One in four buy to let landlords have solid confidence in property investment and believe now is a good time...

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What you shouldn’t do – buy to let mortgage advice

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 1

Buy to let mortgage advice Many investors have become cashflow beneficiaries of the ‘Credit Crunch’ due to the lowest interest...