The complete guide to investing in property [electronic resource]
Language: English Edition: 5th edDescription: eBookISBN:- 9780749459222
- 346.4104342 $2 18
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1 Determining the market -- 1. Investing in your own home -- 2. Investing in buy-to-let -- 3. Buying a second home or holiday cottage -- 4. Buying abroad -- 5. Buying off-plan, either home or abroad -- 6. Buying a wreck and doing it up (developing) -- 7. Buying commercial property -- 8. Buying a business such as a hotel or B&B -- 9. Buying property to put into a SIPP or a REIT -- 10. Selling your main home and pocketing the proceeds -- 11. Buying ground rents and freeholds -- 12. Buying at auction -- The important questions to ask yourself -- Regard it as a business -- The "fatal flaw" -- 2 Using your own home -- Buying a house together ? advice for couples -- Finance -- Getting a mortgage -- New types of mortgage -- Jesus saves, Moses invests - but what about Mohammed? -- Freehold or leasehold? -- Buying a wreck in an up and coming area, doing it up and then selling on at a massive profit -- Building your own home and selling it on -- Renting out a room (or rooms) -- Renting out your home to holidaymakers and overseas visitors -- Using part of your home as a hotel or B&B -- Renting out a self-contained flat within your home -- Inheritance tax -- Letting out your home to film and TV crews -- Tax matters -- 3 Buy-to-let -- Houses or flats? -- Working out the yield -- Guaranteed rentals -- How the different tenant markets work -- Leasing to the local authority or a housing association -- Being a social landlord -- Property clubs -- Would you enjoy being a landlord? -- Doing it together -- Beware the leasehold trap -- Personal story -- 4 Developing property -- Getting started -- Finance -- Which improvements add value? -- Buying land -- Buying at auction -- Conversions and change of use -- Listed buildings -- 5 Holiday lets -- Purchasing and financing a holiday cottage -- Investment pointers -- Interior design -- Holiday lettings overseas -- Caravans, mobile homes and park homes -- VAT -- 6 Commercial property -- Mortgages -- Tax implications -- Lease premiums -- Flats above shops -- Commercial premises abroad -- Syndicated property purchase -- Property unit trusts -- 7 Setting up a B&B -- The couple trap -- Markets and buyers -- Research -- Improving profitability -- Finance -- VAT -- Legislation issues -- Business rates -- Fire safety -- Catering -- Liquor licensing -- Television licences -- Disabled access -- Furniture and fittings -- Starting from scratch -- Ratings -- And finally? -- 8 Buying property abroad -- Finance and mortgages -- Tax matters -- Profitability -- Existing markets -- Emerging markets -- Last word on buying abroad -- 9 SIPPs and REITs -- REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)
This new eBook edition looks at all aspects of generating money from property - whether that be by renting out spare rooms to lodgers, property development, buying land, holiday rentals or becoming a landlord. Fully updated for this fifth edition, it takes a fresh look at investing in the social housing market and using property as part of a pension plan, as well as providing commentary on the latest legislative developments governing landlords and tenants.