A study conducted by Ernst & Young prompts the Financial Times to publish an article on the challenges faced by student landlords. The idea of investing in student rooms was the buzz term in 2013 and 2014. But for a number of years now we’ve been cautioning
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A Liverpool council led initiative to introduce business rates for student landlords could create a disastrous situation for both students and landlords. As it stands right now, local councils receive funds from the government that. This, in effect, covers for all students (who do not pay council
Read more →Brexit will affect the numbers of students coming to the UK. This will be evident in the decreasing numbers over the next few years and beyond. Let us not shy away from reality. To be perceived to be inward looking and closed for business is not a
Read more →Autumn Budget – The Changes in stamp duty from April 2016 The Autumn Budget has landlords very much at the forefront of the discussion and in a similar vein to the emergency budget in the summer, has caused huge uproar from BTL proponents. The stamp duty change
Read more →Self storage pods resale – is it a waste of space? Following on from an auction that we attended at the beginning of the year which showed that student pod resale figures plummeted when no outside involvement occurred (in that it wasn’t being manipulated by a party with
Read more →Osborne has landlords in his sights – who should be concerned? The July 2015 budget was the first full budget announced by a Conservative government was the first one in almost two decades. Heavily discussed in the days following, it has sent shockwaves through the landlord and
Read more →Yes – at least in the North West area that we buy in It is a bit frustrating having to use three portals instead of the regular two that have been dominating the online sales portals over the last 5 years, but we’re all for disruptive entrepreneurship.
Read more →North Dakota Property Investment – A Ponzi Scheme? Another property investment scheme gone wrong will leave hundreds of punters out of pocket to the tune of $40 million after a court in the US decided to act on what now seems to be a ponzi scheme, according
Read more →Hotel Room Investments – buying a room as an investment? If like us, you’ve received brochures of luxurious hotels with water fountains at the front and crystal blue infinity pools overlooking the sun drenched beach, then the idea that creates in the mind is one of opulence
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