Wrong Housing, Wrong Investment and Bad Mortgage Lending

Thamesmead encapsulates a lot of what has gone wrong with housing over the years – from poor local planning, to bad mortgage lending to yet worse property investment decisions by amateur investors says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com A few weeks’ ago I had cause to visit Thamesmead where my boy was playing in a kids’ football match. I mention the […]

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Mortgage Fraud and Below Market Value Property Plenty of Scams About

Though I try very hard to make sure I’m not on mailing lists for the “Buy Property Below Market Value with None of Your Own Money Down” brigade, I still get the odd email coming through. Naturally, once you are on one mailing list, you quickly end up on lots of others – most of them flogging the same “Get […]

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Rent to Buy and Property Lease Options

Our brief comment in past blogs on the topic of property lease options (or Rent to Buy) schemes which were quoted in last weekends’ “Financial Times” Money section have been taken up by a number of other websites. In some cases they have used some of the article in the FT and reproduced it without quoting us properly. Just to […]

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Same Day Mortgages, Property Lease Options and Protected Bonds That Aren’t Really Protected

It was nice to see my story about next day re-mortgages (see last week’s blog) was picked up by the FT writer Claer Barrett and actually appeared on both the front page and Money section of the Weekend “Financial Times.” Ms Barrett originally came to know me when she was doing an investigation for the FT’s sister mag, “The Investors […]

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Next Day Remortgages Legal Questions and Another Property Investment Firm Bites the Dust

Next Property Investment Seminar and Networking Event One of my mentors in property investment is Richard Bowser of “Property Investor News.” He’s been around property investing even longer than me, wears a white hat and really knows his stuff in the residential property investment sector. Also, like me, he’s seen lots of the “Get Rich Quick in Property” people come […]

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