Advice for Overseas Property Investors from LettingFocus

At LettingFocus.com we often advise people from overseas who wish to buy and let property in the UK. Overseas Property Investors Typically, if they are abroad, my advice will take the form of one-to-one help delivered over the phone or via Skype. If the client comes to the UK, if time allows, we will meet up. I help a wide range […]

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Why New Build Buy to Let Loans Went Wrong for the UK’s Mortgage Lenders

In this article, private rented sector consultant David Lawrenson of LettingFocus goes down memory lane to look at how and why lenders made a mess of buy to let loans for new build stock. Newbies in residential property investment may wonder why there is a lack of lender appetite to lend on new build flats. Some lenders will not lend […]

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Generation Rent

Be aware of the holes in TV documentaries about the private rented sector says David Lawrenson of LettingFocus There was an interesting programme on ITV last week from the “Tonight” team. Called “Generation Rent” the programme set out to look at a number of aspects of the growing private rented sector and the problems people face trying to scrape together […]

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Stratford, Property Investment and the Olympics

Why some property locations have failed to live up to the hype by David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com There was another good article last week in the “Investors Chronicle” which documented the poor returns folks have had who bought into areas close to the Olympic Park in Stratford in East London. Here, house prices have underperformed the rest of London and […]

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