The Demand for Housing in Ireland Everyone agrees that Ireland needs more homes. Experts and analysts seem to have settled on 35,000 as the magic number of houses that need to be built in order to meet the basic demand for homes each year. While this number would...
Last week the housing minister, Heather Wheeler, announced new plans to regulate and raise standards across the property and estate agents sector. The idea is to provide better standards of service to landlords, tenants, vendors and homebuyers. Lord Best will chair a new working group consisting...
There is a huge variety of investment opportunity in property. It may be simply investing in your own home or you’re an investor in build to let or buy-to-let. There are opportunities to develop old properties or develop new builds and even these are diverse. Some...
Buy-to-let is changing. As tax changes have hit demand for buy-to-let mortgage holders, high street lenders are finding alternative ways to sweeten the deal. Lenders both high street and unregulated are finding ways to mitigate the new tax implications for landlords. Although the change is quite...
Property is one of the most lucrative investment vehicles about. As an investment, it’s relatively easy to get a grip on the concepts surrounding this kind of asset investment. Once you understand the worth of property investment, it can really support your lifestyle. Property investment that...
The buy-to-let market has experienced the implementation of significant tax-related changes. The changes have created problems mostly for individual landlords. It has also reduced the introduction of new speculative landlords to the property market. Individuals are now discouraged from developing large property portfolios unless they form a limited company to...
Property developers attend auctions to weed out some of the best investment opportunities available. Auctions, however, present a multitude of complexities that do not come with mainstream property purchases. Financing an auction property can bring with it headaches and technical problems not seen in traditional property...
When landlords start out they will come across the term SPV Limited Company Buy-to-Let, which means Special Purpose Vehicle, a limited company for buy to let. There are multiple options in terms of how they can trade. Some will choose to operate as individuals, others...
For a limited company, buy-to-let stamp duty has become one of the biggest incentives that dictate how they will continue to trade as a landlord. There have been huge changes in the regulations covering the buy-to-let market. The most immediate has been on those landlords that...
Aldermore is a key lender in the buy-to-let market, uniquely marketing their financial products to corporate landlords that are limited companies. They also offer buy-to-let mortgages to individuals and other legal entities, however, they have recently focused on how they are going to implement the new...
