The number of American-style landlord-free rental apartments being built in Britain has soared in the past year. Pension funds and developers are pouring money into a new sector viewed by some as a solution to the urban housing crisis. According to the British Property Federation (BPF), the number of “build-to-rent” blocks currently under construction — […]
01 Low investment barrier In 2016 the average cost of a buy-to-let property in the UK was £206.000. In comparison a property loan note investment can be purchased from only £20.000. Due to the low purchase price they are purchased with cash without the need for arranging a mortgage. 02 Guaranteed yield Buy-to-let properties […]
The building trade is shrugging off political turmoil and wobbling economic sentiment to grow much faster than analysts were expecting. Today the Purchasing Managers’ Index for November came in at 53.4 — better than the market expected and beating the figures for October. This was dubbed “an early and unexpected Christmas present”, for the sector […]
Diversification is an approach that reduces risk by allocating investments among various financial instruments, industries, and other categories. It aims to maximize return by investing in different areas that would each react differently to the same event. Diversification is also knows as selecting assets which are uncorrelated, an example of this in the property world of investing, would be […]
Britain’s biggest listed residential landlord has agreed to buy out a Dutch pension fund from a joint venture in a big expansion of its property portfolio. Grainger, which has more than 8,000 rental properties, will take full ownership of Grip Reit, which owns 1,700 homes in 35 properties across London and the South East, from […]
Telly Savalas’s 1981 promotional video about Birmingham has become cult viewing. In it, the Kojak actor ardently extols the beauty of the multi-lane highways, ring roads and traffic control centres in his “kinda town”. The bright future promised for the UK’s second city has taken a few decades to reach full dazzle, but now its […]