Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
Many people just don’t buy so called below market value (BMV) property through estate agents – they think they will not be able to get great deals that way. But at LettingFocus.com we disagree and we often get good deals this way. So how do we do it? Buying Below Market Value from an Estate Agent Well, the first thing […]
Read moreThamesmead 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 […]
Read moreThough 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 […]
Read moreMy blog post last week (about what mortgage companies could do to support landlords more), generated 27 emails from managers at buy to let mortgage lenders and ten from landlords. One aspect that I referred to, in passing, was how the mortgage lenders had been “behind the play” in terms of understanding how bad buy to let mortgage lending and […]
Read moreI’m sad to say that at some recent events I have been to, quite a few punters came to me with pretty strong evidence that some property investment “advisors” are still encouraging people to carry out mortgage frauds as a way of buying property with little or no money down (NMD) and / or as part of a “buying below […]
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