

"Flipping heck, Tucker! What about the taxman?"
Property flipping is back. Back in the day 2007 pre Northern Rock, £9.6M worth of property changed hands several times within a matter of...


SDLT/Stamp Duty - The new PPI?
Just when you thought those nauseating radio ads for PPI were a thing of the past, just wait until this little beauty starts to pop up....


Hiding your light under a bushel
Now this is not something that you could every accuse Purple Bricks of. This disrupter business continues to market its way into the...


Testimonial
“I’ve never had such an amazing service from a mortgage consultancy. Begley Brown provided the best professional service from start to...


Who needs a mortgage broker anyway?
I can do it myself. Yes you can. If you are employed, have 3 months banks statements, a P60, 3 months pay slips and can prove your...


Gazumping - Play up and play the game
We all need to play by the rules or we're all going to hell in a handbag. And I don't mean the professionals here I mean those clients...


BTL - Raising finance
I keep reporting on troubling times ahead for the BTL brigade and it is about time that there was some good news to tell you about. And...


BTL - How some are easing the tax burden
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and for the BTL brigade they are having to think of ingenious ways to beat the...


I'm instructing an estate agent - Part 2
Better news on the estate agent front. One of the agents went out to the property on Tuesday and came back with her report. Fantastic. I...


I'm instructing an estate agent - Part 1
For those of you that have been following the podcast and know that I am thinking about selling a property in Machrihanish, it has now...