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"Buy
- to - Let" - Would it suit you ?
Ever
since the mid 1990`s demand has much increased within the property
rental sector. This might be attributed to several factors, for
example;
Shortages
in Local Authority Housing
Professional
personnel being subject to career relocation
Employment
trends towards fixed term contracts
Increase
in lone-parent families
European
influences - many families in Europe prefer to rent rather than
buy.
People
who might be affected by the above examples have particular reasons
for needing flexibility and mobility with their housing needs, and
growth within the Buy to Let property sector has been assisted by
these social trends.
We
have seen a strong growing demand in particular from the `Corporate`
sector - i.e. persons employed within national or even international
companies, and who may in the near future be subject to being relocated
to a different area (or country) as a part of their continuing career.
Letting
is of course classed as a business. As with any business, there
is a requirement to keep books to account for income from your new
investment, and which is subject to UK taxation rules as with most
sources of income. This need not be difficult, and a growing number
of owners of such `second properties` often quickly realise both
the potential and the demand that exists, and many look to build
small portfolios of property to increase their profits!
By
and large, residential property has historically been considered
a very solid asset, and property values have historically out-performed
most other forms of investment in the longer term.
Some
might argue that rental income from a property owned outright is
better than a personal pension, in that rental income can reasonably
expect to be "Index Linked" in keeping with economic inflation.
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