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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Firstly, the Brexit debacle continues – without any sort of firm end in sight – which means that these predictions are even more fragile than before. As expected, new instructions to the market (supply) have been few and far between, while keen buyers (demand) have been frantically buying, leading to an increase in prices and […]
In terms of the status of the market, it is a very unique time for the property market in our opinion. Therefore, much of my time so far this year has also been spent assessing the market (or sentiment thereof) to decide on a relevant strategy for 2019. I’m afraid the tiresome Brexit debacle is […]
