Whitepaper Report: The State of The Market
With all the uncertainty around the lockdown and its impact on the economy, we thought it would be useful to give you The House Crowd’s opinion on the impact over the short, medium and long-term on the property investment market. Commercial One of the biggest…
Property News Round-up 13/7/16
Property News All The Latest Updates Hi guys and welcome to our first property news blog of the month, as usual we will be given you a snap shot of the latest goings-on in the domestic market. This week we look at the Manchester property…
Property News Round-up 25/5/16
Property News All The Latest Updates Hi guys welcome to another edition of our property news blog, today we once again look at the latest goings-on in the domestic market from looking at the average house prices in Greater Manchester in 2030 to focusing…
Prospects for Property Investors After Bank of England Clampdown on Buy to Lets
Some recent changes are already hitting landlords hard, others will soon. Here we look at the available options in what for many buy to let investors are troubling times.
Property News Round-up 27/1/16
Property News All The Latest Updates Hi guys and welcome to our fortnightly property news edition, today we look at an array of news items from the Manchester property boom to leaving you with a quiz! Manchester Property Boom Map Student and property…
Slimmer yields for landlords in 2014? Not for our investors…
According to ARLA, the average yield across the country has fallen to around 5.5%. A journalist recently put this point to me and asked (somewhat sceptically) how we could offer much higher yields. I responded that average returns are just that. They represent what an…
Happy 18th birthday Buy to Let mortgages
and thank you for our present… “a predicted 11% profit for the next decade” according to a recent report. The findings from the report published in an article by The Guardian identified that with average annual returns of 16.3% (£13,000 profit) on each investment of…
RLA vs Shelter
The Residential Landlords Association has attacked Shelter today for what is regarded amongst Landlords as a scaremongering campaign. Shelter’s “Growing Up Renting†campaign argues that families with children are bearing the brunt of insecure tenancies, high rents, and constant moves that it asserts are standard…
The Iron Lady – Patron Saint Of Landlords?
Margaret Thatcher has always divided opinion. Even now, following her death, and 20 years after John Major succeeded her as Prime Minister, she still elicits strong emotions. Many consider she saved the nation from the misery and chaos of a union controlled Britain, whilst others…
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….