There are various options for fast, short-term funding available – but in the property world, a bridging loan is an increasingly popular option. Designed specifically to bridge the gap in funding, they can help with everything from buying a property on a tight deadline, to small or large-scale developments. To get you up to speed […]
By Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest When it comes to property investment, there are lots of different factors any investor will want to look at before agreeing to a purchase, with the potential for capital growth chief among them. Something that is very clear from our latest Buy-To-Let Index is that while the general rate […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest For all of the talk of doom and gloom around the prospects for buy-to-let over the last couple of years, the truth appears to be rather different. Far from deserting the sector, lenders are now presenting landlords with a wider range of borrowing options than ever before. New figures from […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest There’s little question that the shape of the landlord market is changing. The various regulation and taxation changes introduced over the last few years have seen the make-up of the nation’s landlords move away from the dinner party landlords with one or two properties to those with much more comprehensive […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest It’s been a rollercoaster couple of years for the world of property investment, with a succession of tax and regulatory changes that investors and their brokers have had to get their heads around. But for all of the discussions about stamp duty, portfolio landlords and underwriting rules, the fundamentals of […]
Ian Boden, Sales Director, LendInvest Location is one of the most important factors for any property investor to consider when looking at expanding their portfolio. You want to buy in the right place, somewhere with a steady supply of tenants and which can deliver strong rental yields and/or good capital growth over the longer term. […]
Without good marketing to back up your business, being approached by a new client can be akin to asking them to find a needle in a haystack
By Jennifer Gilchrist, Product Lead, Design Imagine the scene: in the build-up to the busiest time of year at Santa Corp. offices, Santa Claus has slipped on the ice and suffered a serious injury. He’s desperate to get back to work, but the orders from Doctor Elf are firm — no work for at least […]
The Finance (No.2) Act 2017 has passed into law — we look at the impact on the Money Purchase Annual Allowance
Steve Webb, Director of Policy and External Communications, reflects on all things pensions in 2017
By Matthew Tooth, chief commercial officer, LendInvest The growth of the specialist has been impossible to ignore over the past couple of years, but recent research by the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (Imla) has made clear the increasing role of specialism in the mortgage market. Imla found that lending by specialists had grown by an […]
Along with global legal practice Eversheds Sutherland, we look at why employers may want to do more than simply meet the legal minimum in terms of their auto-enrolment duties. Our new policy paper — ‘Automatic enrolment and the law – how far do employers’ duties extend?’ — summarises current minimum duties of employers to enrol […]