Revealed: UK PropTech investment hits record levels in 2021
There has also been an increase in PropTech mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with Pi Labs’ analysis of M&A data revealing that there have been 152 global PropTech acquisitions so far in 2021. This is up from 92 in 2020, and the most global PropTech M&A activity since records began. Better capitalised and established players acquiring competing ...
Insight - Chinese buyers increasingly looking for UK investment ...
The ‘potent’ mix of the Covid-19 pandemic and the slow demise of the Evergrande Group, one of China’s largest development companies, is driving UHNWIs to seek property investment assets in the UK, with long term value growth.
Peter Grant, Sandstone Group - Property Investor Today
What is Sandstone Group? Sandstone is a UK-based residential property investment and management company. Headquartered in Edinburgh, we’re active across ten UK university cities. Over the past 25 years, we’ve helped clients in 40 countries to invest in over 3,000 residential properties, representing around £1bn of assets.
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Rents tumble by over 10% in just one month. Stamp duty hike will deter investors, fears auction chief. Investors still entering buy to let sector, claims lettings chief. Estate Agent Today provides daily industry, Estate Agency, Property Market, Housing, Moving Home and Online Estate Agent News updates for the UK's letting agent community.
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Revealed: the UK’s best and worst places for buy-to-let
Liverpool’s L7 postcode tops the buy-to-let yield table, generating yields of 10.30% from an average asking price of only £95,000. The L7 postcode covers the area of Edge Hill and is in close proximity to Liverpool’s city centre. Five more Liverpool postcodes feature in the top 20, with returns ranging from 7.40% to 10.30%.
Is house flipping still a profitable strategy in 2020?
House flipping is a property investment strategy in the UK (and elsewhere) that has been around for a long time. The amount of profit that you make from this is a simple calculation: Final Selling Price – Cost of Purchase – Costs = Profit. Here is an example: Property purchase price: £200,000. Renovation costs: £30,000.
10 reasons to invest in UK property now despite the recession
4. Reduced SDLT until March 2021. In a move designed to protect and revitalise the property market, the government announced a stamp duty holiday on all property purchases up to the value of £500,000 between July 8 2020 and March 31 2021. Although for investors the 3% additional property rate is still in effect. 5.
What type of property brings the best returns for investors?
The average two-bed currently provides a yield of 5.6%, while one-beds now average a return of 6.2%. According to the findings, Newcastle is the safest bet when it comes to investing in a one-bed buy-to-let, with the average yield landing at 7.9%. This is closely followed by Glasgow (7.7%), Liverpool (7.1%) and Plymouth (7%), which are all home ...
Insight – who is driving the Build to Rent boom?
Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs also lent British property developer Quintain £150.9 million to build hundreds of rental homes close to Wembley Stadium. Invesco. One of the largest investment managers in the UK, the Henley-on-Thames-based firm has embraced BTR in a big way, teaming up with various partners including Meyer Bergman and Ecoworld.