Tag: property portfolio

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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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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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Keeping your property business cash flowing

Author: Mark Alexander

13th December 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let may be booming now – but many full time property investors are still feeling the pinch from...

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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...

Running a buy to let business as a limited company

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 18

Buy to let landlords making big rental profits and looking to save tax often flirt with the idea of running...

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HMO investors must not shun planning opportunity

Author: Mark Alexander

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Time is running out in some cities for house in multiple occupation (HMO) investors to expand their property portfolios. The...

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The History of Buy to Let Sale and Rent Back

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 15 years ago | 6

By Mark Alexander. I closed my first Sale and Rent Back, “SARB”, deal in 1990. It wasn’t for me personally...

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Property investors must act to avoid 40% tax bill

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

The best laid Tory plans to boost inheritance tax (IHT) thresholds to £1 million after the election were shelved as...

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

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

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

The Money Centre’s Estate Planning Partners look to team up with several charities. When people are diagnosed with a critical illness or a degenerative disease plenty of people offer tea and sympathy but very few offer good practical advice

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

We’ve recently embarked on a new initiative to provide Estate Planning advice to people who need it most, whilst at...

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Spotlight on our Tax and Accountancy partners. Landlord News articles about Tax and accountancy are the best read. In this issue we provide more information on the levels of assistance our partners can provide

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 2

The most popular articles in Landlord News are undoubtedly those that relate to tax and accountancy advice. Steve Sims, author...

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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, 15 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, 15 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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Why up to 40% of your life insurance payout could end up in the hands of the tax man

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 1

If your net assets are worth over £325,000 when you die, any money that you leave to anybody other than...

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Don’t just leave financial problems when you die. An interesting article from Steve Sims, freelance journalist and author of The Dummies Guide to Property taxation

Author: This article was written by guest author - Steve Sims

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

In these times of austerity, many people are looking at ways to save money but one expense that is well...

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IFA firm joins forces with The Money Centre

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

The two firms Directors explain how the relationship will enhance the relationship with, and the service available to, the customers...

Are 8% interest rates scaremongering?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Mark Alexander  explains why, even though rates at these levels are extremely unlikely, high interest rates due to high inflation...

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The Money Centre’s Portfolio Review Platinum Package is proving to be very popular as a tool to reduce Inheritance Tax for UK resident landlords with 10 or more properties or net worth of over £500,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

We’ve been reviewing our client’s property portfolio’s now for 20 years and making recommendations that have transformed many of our...