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Five ways to reduce the risk of a buy to let investment

09 July, 20140 Comments
Five ways to reduce the risk of a buy to let investment The buy-to-let market is going from strength to strength. According to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 16,000 buy-to-let mortgages were forwarded in the year to May 2014, worth a collective £2.2bn. This is a 14% increase in volume and
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Investing for long-term gain

01 May, 20140 Comments
Traditionally, buy-to-let has always offered two types of return. Thanks to appreciation, property tends to protect against inflation in the long term, whilst the ability to rent a property out to paying tenants means that it can pay for its own overheads and potentially generate a tidy profit in the meantime. However, in the years
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