Shoebox Appeal – 6 years & counting!
We do this every year so please make sure you remember to add another gift to your shopping list for The Samaritan’s Purse. For more information on Operation Christmas Child, visit their website here. […]
Author: Nicholas Stott
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Gemma the Born Survivor
Gemma Robertson took part in the Born Survivor 10k challenge to raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Whilst it would be easy to say from an armchair that anyone could do 35+ military-grade obstacles over 10km with little to no training, Gemma has approached this with her disciplined and methodical manner. The most impressive part of Gemma‘s challenge is not the […]
Night to Light
We’re excited to announce that our very own Alex participated in the annual Night to Light Walk on Saturday, May 13th, 2023. The Night to Light Walk is more than just a fun and active way to spend a Saturday morning – it’s also an opportunity to raise awareness and support for mental health in […]
Affordable housing crisis: why private landlords are the solution, not the problem
According to the Department for Levelling Up, one in five private renters in the UK spend a third of their income on rent. A quarter find it ‘fairly or very difficult’ to afford their rental payments. Those are national statistics. Here in Liverpool, the situation is arguably worse. A shortage of housing in the area, […]
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Self-management vs hiring a property management agent – the property investor’s dilemma
Call me biased on this subject if you like – I’m one of the owners of a property management agency! But I’m also a property investor. My partners and I built our business around an important principle; we don’t advise anyone to do anything we wouldn’t do ourselves. We’d never suggest you buy a property […]
Property jargon buster
Annual Interest The balance upon which interest is charged is adjusted once each year. Advance The mortgage loan. Annual Percentage Rate (APR) The total charge for the loan including fees interest expressed as a percentage. Applied or Nominal Interest Rate The rate used to calculate the interest due. Arrears Mortgage payments which have not been […]
Liverpool leads the way for property development
A scandalous article is always a more attractive one for the media and readers than good news stories or things running smoothly. It should be noted that for a number of years, Liverpool has been recognised as one of the nation’s leaders in house price growth, rental yields and property development. The North leads the […]
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MEES changes – April 2020
If you have a let property with an EPC rating of ‘F’ or ‘G’ then you should prepare now for the extension of the regulations to existing tenancies. Landlords should consider the following, in order to protect their assets: Review your property or property portfolios to identify whether or not properties are compliant Consider the […]
HMO licensing and planning changes
Proactive HMO landlords able to stay a step ahead of key industry milestones will meet the challenges, that lie ahead this year, in an easier way. So, let’s go through the most significant changes due to affect landlords this year: New tax relief rules Landlords have met with a row of changes in fiscal and […]
Housing market opinion: July 2019
Couple this with the fall of Countrywide and Purple Bricks, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the whole property industry – let alone market – is about to implode! The key fact right now is that investment property returns are not what they were Why? I’ll ignore the tax issues for now, as that […]
