Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
How CGT affects landlords and buy to let investors
Landlords may have seen Ken Livingstone – whom I usually quite admire – propose on “Newsnight” that tenants’ rents should be capped at no more than the mortgage is costing their landlord. It’s an interesting concept and I wonder how Mr. L would suggest this could be policed. I guess about as easily as the new restriction on child benefit […]
Read moreNEXT SEMINAR AND NETWORKING EVENT: Next Property Investment Seminar and Networking Event When evaluating property investments, too many landlords fail to take account of the “opportunity costs” of their own money sunk into any project. Indeed I meet a lot of people in my consultancy who have hired me to assess an investment or set of investments but have forgotten […]
Read moreSo who wins and who loses from the emergency budget? Well, the trouble with the budget is that lots of the details are in the hard to get (and even harder to digest) documents that come out after the Chancellor has sat down.) But back at the desk and catching up, it seems clear that one winner could be the […]
Read moreA few months ago there was a ray of hope that the historically high margins that mortgage companies want to charge buy to let mortgage borrowers could be coming down. Readers of this column will know that back in November last year, for a 75% loan to value buy to let mortgage, you could get a reversionary (or “go to” […]
Read moreI see the government is looking to increase the rate of capital gains tax to 40% and possibly cut the amount of gains one can have before it becomes payable (currently just over £10,000) to say £2,000. This is something the Conservatives may be forced into by their Liberal Democrat partners, because as Nick Clegg says, it seems crazy that […]
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