A Promising Year for the UK
Property Market
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BY ZEESHAN SHAH - APPRENTICE
STAR AND PROPERTY EXPERT
House prices are both a nationwide obsession
and a prime driver of the UK's consumer
economy. Property enthusiasts, stock market
brokers and prospective investors continue to
keep an eye out on what the year 2015 holds for
UK’s property market. In this article I look at
housing trends, predictions and assess latest
expert analysis of the buy-to-let property market.
According to Rightmove, the drop in asking
prices observed towards the end of 2014 may be
considered as one of the ‘biggest ever monthly
drop’. As sellers butchered their asking prices to
tempt first-time buyers into a deal and pave their
way into 2015, this created a potential
opportunity for homebuyers and movers to
negotiate and save money on their property
purchases. Despite the considerable dip in asking
prices, experts foresee 2015 as the ideal time to
invest in buy-to-let properties owing to their
speculations of a 5% increase in property values
next year.
Before we dig deep into the prospects of buy-tolet investments, it would be worthwhile to have
an insight into how such property developments
work as a potential medium to long-term
investment.
Revealing the Basics of Buy-To-Let Investments
A buy-to-let simply refers to a property type that
an investor invests in with an aim to rent for a
residual income. Once they have invested in a
can potentially
Zeeshan Shah of One buy-to-let property investorswhich refers to earn
a profit through rental yield,
less any maintenance, repairs and
Investments rental incomecapital growth, which encompasses
taxation, and
the profit earned of the buy-to-let is eventually
sold for a price higher than its initial cost.
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