Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
In this article, I look at a recent experience I had with a an online lettings agency. If you are a landlord who likes to control the tenant selection part of being a landlord, you will probably already be using an online letting agent to find tenants for you. For me, the careful selection of good tenants is a job […]
Read moreWe are now in the dark months when the nights draw in – wet, damp and all that stuff. SEASONALITY IN LETTINGS And for landlords, it pays to be aware of the seasonality in lettings. In our experience, we have found that the worst months to be trying to let a property is October, November and December, with the very […]
Read moreMake sure you are comparing like with like when you are looking at the performance of different areas in terms of property prices over time. COMPARE LIKE WITH LIKE WHEN EVALUATING DIFFERENT AREAS AND HOUSE PRICE TRENDS OVER TIME You often hear people saying how much their property has gone up over time and how it is worth x% more […]
Read moreCovid Virtual Viewings and High Demand I have just let a property in a semi-rural, semi-urban location, just outside London. The fascinating thing about this was that it produced the highest demand for a property I have let in all my 30 years as a landlord. From when the advert was placed, the phone never stopped ringing, so much so […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of LettingFocus explains why he is investing in Gravesend and Northfleet ahead of the London Resort Holdings opening and the extension of the Crossrail (Elizabeth Line). Gravesend, Crossrail and London Resort At Swanscombe One of the main ways I outperformed in making money in residential buy to let property was by simply buying into areas that were going […]
Read moreRepossessions under Covid Finally, a little sense at last from this hapless, flip flopping government regarding repossessions in these times of Covid, but it does not go far. They have made concessions about how repossession cases in the rental market will be handled from 20th September. This follows extensive lobbying by the National Residential Landlords Association (NLRA) after the Government […]
Read moreWhat will be the long term consequences of CV19 and the CoronaPanic for the private rented sector? This is hard to predict. We do seem to be having more of these viruses coming along in recent years and the hysterical media and governments of the world are only too keen to scare people when they do. In the last two […]
Read moreSome interesting changes to electrical regulations and gas safety have come into force in the last few weeks. For all new tenancies in England and Wales, starting from July 2020, you now have to obtain an Electric Installation Condition Report (EICR) proving the electrics are safe. These have to be renewed every 5 years. (This brings them into line with […]
Read moreOver the years, I have written a number of articles comparing property to standard pensions. Here I am defining “standard pensions” as being the sort where you usually invest via your company and the money is taken off somewhere to be invested by an anonymous fund manager (unless you are one of the supposedly lucky people (debate that!) to have […]
Read moreDon’t take the easy way out by clicking a few links and remortgaging with your current mortgage lender – you would be costing yourself tens of thousands of pounds. Always shop around says David Lawrenson of LettingFocus.com. Don’t Remortgage with your current mortgage lender. Always shop around Six weeks ago, I was advising a client couple on buy to let […]
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