The Living Dead: How Smart Property Investment Can Keep You Alive
The Living Dead: How Smart Property Investment Can Keep You Alive Just been reading the book Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester which is all about the financial meltdown and the lack of credit available to business and home-buyers….
Stepping Up To The Plate: Letting to Local Housing Association Tenants
The House Crowd steps up as many landlords step back from Local Housing Allowance tenancies. More than half of landlords can no longer afford to rent to tenants on housing benefit, according to a survey by the National Landlords Association (NLA), which we at The…
Could Crowdfunding unlock the property market for millions?
www.investortoday.co.uk reported this week, the average age of Britons being able to purchase a property is now a staggering 37 years old. The research, carried out by www.moneysupermarket.com also revealed that a massive 41% don’t intend to buy a home at all “ that’s over…
Big investors encouraged into property industry
Members of the property industry are today urging the Government to encourage property investments by big investors  to support ‘build to rent’ schemes. The Montague Review is looking at whether there are barriers preventing institutional investment in the private rented sector, on the basis…
US Crowdfunding industry launches national association
Excellent news for the status of crowdfunding property investments this month as portals, consultants and service providers of the US crowdfunding industry came together to form the National Crowdfunding Association (NCFA). Members of this professional organisation are united in the common purposes of promoting crowdfunding…
Do You Need To Be An Olympic Hurdler?
Eying up the hurdles that now face buy to let investments in this current climate – daunting. You may need to be an Olympic hurdler to overcome them and invest in property successfully. The main top five which stop many are as follows: Deposits are…
A brave time to become a landlord? It’s easy with The House Crowd
Statistics outlined this week suggest worrying times ahead if you have made a property investment and become a private landlord. It has been reported that the number of tenants in severe financial difficulty climbed by over 10% in the first quarter of 2012, with almost…
Back To Life
At The House Crowd we are opening property investment to the masses; however, in doing so we are also doing our bit to bring properties back to life and make them habitable. We are buying distressed properties and giving them life. This surely has a…
This Is Money Crowdfunding Article
We were very pleased this week to get an article about us and crowdfunding property investment published on the Daily Mail’s This Is Money website. We were less pleased with the trolls who decided to completely trash what we are trying to do without even…
Today’s The Day
Today is the official launch of the world’s first crowdfunding property investment company. (That’s us by the way). If you haven’t heard of crowdfunding before and want to know more you can read all about it on Wikipedia. We hope you all agree it’s a…