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Investing In Your First Property? A Little Advice
- By Mitch Mitchison
- Landlords
- May 11, 2022
Today, we want to share some key things to keep in mind when buying your first investment property to ensure it will benefit you, and help you avoid making some common mistakes.
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Why Do Estate Agents Need A Floorplan?
- By Northwood UK
- News
- November 16, 2020
Or more importantly, why do buyers need one? You see, floorplans are actually quite a recent addition to property listings, only having been introduced around 30 years ago. And even then, they were only really made for particularly grand homes, or for new builds to showcase the difference. But nowadays, you log into any property app and you will see almost every listing boasting a floorplan, from the 8-bed mansion to the humble studio flat. But why is this, and why are they so valuable to buyers and renters?
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Jargon Buster: Mortgage Edition
- By Northwood UK
- News
- November 10, 2020
When it comes to buying your first property, its really easy to get confused. There is a lot to understand, a lot of big processes going on and a lot of excitement at every stage. In the past, weve done posts breaking down the jargon around the property market in general, to make it easier to understand what us estate agents are talking about at every stage of the process. But today we wanted to look at one specific area that causes people a few issues mortgages. So, here are some of the most common terms around getting a mortgage, and what they mean.
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Case Study - Phil, Globetrotting Investments
- By Northwood UK
- News
- November 4, 2020
Time Poor, Globe-trotting with work, but still wanting to invest in Property? What if your full-time job takes you all over the world and you dont have the time to find tenants or sort out problems with the current ones, but you still want to invest in property? With interest rates being at an all-time low and the stock market increasingly volatile, many investors are looking to invest their money in property and herein lies the problem; there is often no time to deal with the general day to day hassle and, not-with-standing the current situation with Coronavirus, many people are simply not at home enough to be able to deal with the problems that arise. This was the situation that Phil found himself in, and his mortgage broker told him about Northwood and their Guaranteed Rental Scheme.
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