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Luxury student accommodation investments – where is the value? We have often struggled with the concept of the self termed luxury investments, especially in target markets that don’t necessitate such descriptions and for the most part, we believe the student investment sector falls under this. We agree

Should you ever pay for property investment mentoring or property investment coaching? What are the best ways to learn about property investment in the UK? If you’re a well versed investor with over 20 years of experience, then you are in a better position than a newbie

Pricing correctly to sell student pods – see the whole picture The way that developers sell student pods, in our eyes, needs to offer better value. We have seen so many that are being marketed with brand new LCD television sets, double beds and free wireless broadband

The best long term property investments We have been asked by our clients what we feel is a good long term investment and if we can offer any products that can provide any long term investment options. We have two investments in particular that we think are

Knight Frank released their findings on the undersupplied student market in late 2014. The report, in summary, concluded that there is a demand for purpose built student accommodation (PBSA), which is distinguished from university halls of residence and student HMOs (houses in multiple occupation). It identifies a

Is there genuine capital growth or is it… made up? Just before Christmas, we received an email from another student investment developer / sales agent and there were some claims on the email in relation to capital growth on student pod investments. Some of the claims were,

Carbon Credit investment and why you should avoid it In the last two months, towards the end of 2013, another investment company trading from the near Liverpool Street station in London went into insolvency, owing millions to investors that had pinned their hopes on getting returns from

Where to invest in 2014 – specifically, property investment in 2014 Every year, there are property investment guides doing the rounds on where to invest in 2012, where to invest in 2013 and naturally the one to come next is where to invest in 2014. So in

Self Storage investments – where is the appeal? In the last three weeks, we’ve had three separate sales calls from companies that enquired if we were interested in acting as agents for their self storage investments. In most cases, the conversation was brief as, to be absolutely

Halal Investments in Property – a viable option? As part of our ongoing effort in bringing alternative products to the market and to satisfy our client request, we are intrigued by the gap in the market that is currently unfulfilled when it comes to halal investments or