When building your portfolio, it can be hard to find investment opportunities that maximize return on investment while minimizing risk. This is especially true in the current economic climate where …
The Best UK REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)
A Real Estate Investment Trust, commonly abbreviated to REIT is an easy and effective way to tap into returns from UK commercial property, residential property and property development profits. The …
How to Prepare Yourself for Questions During Your Mortgage Application
Regardless of whether you are applying for your mortgage directly with the lender or utilizing a mortgage broker, you will consistently confront some type of mortgage meeting. This will help …
4 Ways To Make Your Money Work For You
Monetary resources can be quite a handful to manage. With all the daily expenses you incur, sometimes you wish you could just earn easy money. If you’re feeling down and …
How to Begin Saving For Your First Home
Owing your own home is many peoples’ dream but how to save up enough money for the deposit can seem a daunting prospect. While it is good to ask relatives …
The Simple Guide to UK Commercial Mortgages
We’re all familiar with residential mortgages used by property investors and how they generally work. But commercial mortgages are a very different ball game! As any mortgage book will explain, residential …
Top UK Regeneration Hotspots for Property Investment
As people try to find their footing after this rather wobbly year, investors continue to look for their next venture. With London property becoming more challenging to break into, many …
Solicitor Responsibilities When Investing in Property
Investing in property involves a lot of legal paperwork, tough decisions and a few stressful scenarios. Sometimes it’s better to leave the complicated tasks to the professionals so you can …
A Beginner’s Guide to Commercial Real Estate Investing
Commercial Real Estate has blown up recently and offers a wealth of opportunities in expanding investors’ portfolios everywhere. Now more than ever, it has become more accessible and easier to …
How Much Have Properties Increased in Value Over the Last 12 Months?
The surge in real UK house prices is nothing new, with rapid and sustained price growth having gripped the market for years now. This year’s surge has been particularly pronounced, …
How to Save for a House Deposit – The Ultimate Guide
Which house prices reaching historic highs in recent months, more and more of you have been asking for help on saving your way towards a house deposit. Saving a house …
How to Prime a Property to Sell for More Money
Investors often believe that investing in property is all about the purchase process. However, if you think of the long term time horizon, the eventual sale of an investment property …
A 5-Step Guide To Get Approved For A Commercial Property Loan
A financing solution often favoured by real estate investors is a commercial property loan or commercial real estate loan. This type of loan is typically used to renovate or purchase …
Buying a Property? 5 Costs to Look Out For
Property can be a fantastic investment, regardless of whether you’re purchasing a buy-to-let unit that you will let to tenants, or a residential home for your family. If you buy when the market is low and can hang …
Best Ways to Look For Investment Properties in Other Countries
Buying real estate overseas as a vacation home or investment property is the ultimate goal for many of us. One of the biggest reasons is that international property stands out …
5 Ways to Find Motivated Vendor Leads to Invest in Discounted Property
When looking for vendors when investing in property, it is important to ensure you differentiate between established and struggling investors. When you find a motivated vendor, you won’t have to …
Why Do Mortgage Applications Get Declined and How Can I Avoid It?
As a first-time buyer, there’s a huge amount that you won’t know about the mortgage application process. There are lots of aspects that can cause you problems and even result in your purchase falling through. We Buy …
Real House Price Growth History Chart (UK – 1988 – 2020)
I was recently disappointed at the availability of real house price growth charts online, so I decided to publish my own here on Financial Expert. Everyone in the UK will …
Generating Returns from Overseas Property
If you’re a full time investor with a mix of interests, you’ll already be aware just how difficult it is to generate a reasonably well guaranteed rate of return in …
How to Invest in Property Without Buying Property Directly
Investing in property is an attractive proposition for many people aged 30 – 60 who have surplus income to save, and who are looking for an investment opportunity. Property investment …
The Difficulties of Investing in Property as a Beginner
Getting on the property ladder is an aspiration shared by many 20 – 40 year olds. When prices have been rising generally for many years, it’s natural to experience FOMO …
How to Invest in Property During Economic Turbulence
As investors, we tend to hold a glamorous image of the investing process. And out of all the asset classes, property investment is probably the most sexy investment category. Property …
Where to Invest in Property
The question of where to invest is perhaps most relevant to property investors. As the famous saying goes: choosing a great property is about three factors: Location, Location, Location! But where should one …
Definition of a Real Estate Investment Trust
In my ultimate guide on how to invest in property, I list REITs as one of the popular methods. But what does REIT mean? What does REIT stand for, and …
Why is Property Investment so Popular?
If you’ve ever discussed financial investments with friends of colleagues, I am willing to bet that the topic of how to invest in property entered that conversation. If you look …
How Much of Your Investment Portfolio Should be in Property?
Are you wondering what proportion of your investment portfolio should be invested in brick and mortar assets such as residential and commercial property? If you’re interested in property asset allocation …
How Much of Your Savings Should you Spend on your First Home?
Are you wondering what proportion of your savings should you offer as a house deposit as a first-time buyer? Buyers often find themselves in this quandary, in part due to …
Is Property A Safe Investment?
How much truth sits behind the common maxim as safe as houses? In investor-speak, a bricks and mortar investment is an opportunity to buy something tangible and real. It signals …
Which are the UK’s largest land owners?
I’m expanding my popular How to invest in land guide with a series of short articles. Let’s explore some curious questions about investing in land which I couldn’t squeeze into …
Do landowners own the air above their land?
I’m expanding my popular How to invest in land guide with a series of short articles. Let’s explore some curious questions about investing in land which I couldn’t squeeze into the original article! Question …
The Ultimate Guide on How to Invest in Land
There are 149 million square kilometres of land on this planet. That’s 20,000 square metres per person. Do you personally own your fair share? I have created the ultimate guide …