Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
“First time buyers cannot get onto the housing ladder. They are priced out of lots of areas where they would like to live”. You hear this kind of thing quite a lot: Young first time buyers are priced out because they are not earning enough or because they cannot raise the necessary deposit to get a mortgage. But is it […]
Read moreSynopsis: The media and the FSA catch up on an emerging scandal we first wrote about 2 years ago. It’s nice when the media catches up on an emerging scandal that we at LettingFocus first wrote about almost 2 years earlier. This is the summary of one such news story. Sound familiar? “Property investors are willing to buy peoples’ homes. […]
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 moreOur 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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