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Rent Guarantee for Cardiff Property producing Negative Cash Flow

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Rent Guarantee for Cardiff Property producing Negative Cash Flow

Are you a landlord or property investor with a lemon property investment in Cardiff or South Wales? Don’t worry you are not alone!

But first what’s a “lemon” property?

According to investopedia a “lemon” investment is a very disappointing investment. A lemon is an investment in which your expected return wasn’t even close to being achieved, and more than likely ended up losing you some or all of the capital committed. Lemon investments can be associated with poor money management, economic factors, financial fraud or just plain bad luck.

So from a property perspective a “lemon property” is a property that is either in negative equity and/or producing negative cash flow on a monthly or annual basis. As we said if you have a “lemon” property in Cardiff you are not alone, thanks to the over development of Cardiff Bay.

There are literally hundreds of landlords and property investors who bought a “lemon” off plan during the Cardiff Bay property development boom when developers were offering cash back incentives. Now thanks to the huge over supply on new build apartments many of the Cardiff property investors and landlords who bought off plan find themselves with substantial negative equity.

It’s not just homeowners, landlords and investors who purchased property in Cardiff Bay who maybe the proud owner of a “lemon”. As we have already said it is not just negative equity, but also negative cash flow that turns your property investment into a lemon!

Negative Cash Flow

It sounds simple but negative cash flow is when the rent received by a landlord or property investor is less than the total monthly outgoings of the property. Prior to 2007/2008 many property investors and landlords weren’t overly concerned if their “lemon” property was producing negative cash flow as they believed equity growth far outstripped the shortfall caused by negative cash flow, but how times have changed!

Causes of Negative Cash Flow

There are numerous reasons why a property may produce negative cash flow on a monthly or annual basis.

These include:

  • Leasehold management charges
  • Maintenance issues
  • Void periods
  • Rental arrears
  • Drop in Local Housing Allowance (LHA)
  • Benefit caps

Future causes of negative cash flow:

  • Interest rate rises
  • Moving from a fixed rate mortgage to a Standard Variable Rate (SVR)
  • Unable to switch to a better mortgage rate
  • Universal Credit (UC)

Don’t worry if you are a Cardiff home owner, landlord or property investor with a “lemon” as Rent Guarantee Cardiff have a number of solutions that can help immediately if you are in negative equity and/or producing negative cash flow.

For a no obligation consultation and to discuss how Rent Guarantee Cardiff can unburden the load of negative equity and stress of a property that produces negative cash flow, contact us today:

Bank of England has no intention of dampening UK property market

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Bank of England has no intention of dampening UK property market

Some good news for landlords and property investors and those house holds trapped in negative equity, but not so good news for those looking to get their foot on the first rung of the property ladder as The Bank of England has appeared to rule out intervention to cool the UK’s housing market and escalating signs of inflation nationwide, saying policy was ‘not the right tool’.

Speaking at the launch of the Bank of England’s Inflation Report, BoE governor Mark Carney said the Bank’s financial policy committee would monitor affordability and debt overhangs, however.

Despite annual house price growth breaking into double digits for the first time in four years this month, with the Nationwide index up 10.9%, the Inflation Report downplayed inflationary pressure.

‘Activity in the housing market picked up by less than expected at the time of the February Report,’ it said with mortgage approvals averaging 70,000 a month, 10,000 below forecast.

‘Approvals are likely to rise over the rest of the year but to a lower level than expected three months ago. A growing share of recent mortgage contracts has been attributable to borrowers with loan to value ratios above 90%, though this proportion remains below pre-crisis levels.

‘New lending at high loan to income ratios has surpassed pre-crisis levels, particularly for high-value properties, including those in London. With growth in the stock of lending remaining subdued, however, the debt to income ratio of households in aggregate has continued to edge lower.’

It added that the current historic low in interest rates mean that repayment requirements remained a relatively low percentage of household income.

The report toned down recent warnings by the BoE’s deputy governor for financial stability Jon Cunliffe who said it would be ‘dangerous to ignore’ the momentum of house prices.

That followed testimony by BoE officials Spencer Dale and Andrew Haldane to Parliament in which they cited the housing market as a source of risk for the UK economy.

If you are a landlord with investment property in Cardiff or South Wales and like to continue receiving the benefits of house price inflation but do not like the hassle of managing tenants then Rent Guarantee Cardiff may have the ideal solution.

Rent Guarantee Cardiff offer a no fee letting solution in Cardiff and across South Wales. Our unique guaranteed rental scheme offers landlords complete piece of mind as they received their rent on the same day each month with no void periods and none of the hassle associated with managing a tenancy and a buy to let property.

Rent Guarantee Cardiff are often able to offer up to 90% of the open market rent increasing rental income by at least 20% when using a traditional letting agent.

If you would like to find out more information about Rent Guarantee Cardiff no fee letting solution, please complete the short form below to receive a call from one of our team.

Cardiff Landlords the No Hassle 1200 Per Cent Return Investment

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Cardiff landlords the no hassle 1200 per cent return investment, if you were a landlord and began investing in property in 1996 when the first buy-to-let mortgage was released 18 years ago you would be sitting pretty right now!

The research carried out by Wriglesworth Consultancy and commissioned by Paragon Mortgages uses the following reinvestment assumptions, every £1,000 invested in an average buy-to-let property purchased with a 75 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage in the final quarter of 1996 would have been worth £13,048 by the final quarter of 2013.

This is a compound annual return of 16.3 per cent. The same investment in UK commercial property would have grown to £3,654; in UK equities (shares) to £3,082; in gilts (UK government bonds) to £2,924; and in cash to £1,949.

Around a third (32 per cent) of the total return to the mortgaged buy-to-let investor was income (rent less costs), and 68 per cent capital gains.

A buy-to-let purchaser buying entirely with cash would have seen each £1,000 invested grow to £4,791 by the end of 2013 – a compound annual return of 9.7 per cent.

The alternative of the investor who remortgaged to release equity to expand his/her portfolio more quickly would have turned £1,000 into an astonishing £33,051.

Future projections for landlords in Cardiff, South Wales and across the UK also look promising with projections suggesting that every £1,000 invested at the end of last year using a 75 per cent LTV mortgage would be worth £2,910 by the end of 2023 – an average annual return of 11.3 per cent.

So how can landlords across Cardiff and South Wales lock in the capital appreciation while removing the risk and hassle associated with buy-to-let investment property? The answer is quite simple, Rent Guarantee Cardiff offer landlords a no fee letting solution that guarantees up to 90% market rent with no void periods. So Rent Guarantee Cardiff remove the risk and tenant hassle from the letting process, so landlords can concentrate on receiving their rent on the same day each month and take advantage of the huge potential for capital appreciation.

If you would like to find out more about of no fee letting solution and how we can remove the risk and hassle from the letting process by providing a guaranteed rental income each month, please complete the short contact form below: