Bright prospects for price growth in the north-west

Welcome to the Experience Invest blog. If you are an overseas buyer, you may be considering buying UK residential property as an investment. We first start off with Luton. Luton is one of the most sought after areas of the UK for buy-to-let investors, new research has revealed. As the buy to let market in the UK continues to grow, Experience Invest Luton is excellently placed to help you find your next investment property. Whether it’s your first time as a landlord, or you are looking to expand your existing portfolio, our team of experts can help you to find the property that’s right for you.

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Experience Invest priority is to ensure that we fully understand your goals and requirements, so we are able to find you the perfect property. Whether it’s a smart city centre apartment, a family home, or even student rental accommodation, we can advise on the best area and type of property for you once we know exactly what you are looking for. 

All opportunities are designed to meet the needs of today’s astute investor and are fully managed by a professional management company to deliver an assured, passive rental income.

Our Experiece Invest Luton team consults on the purchasing strategy which includes selecting units and negotiating terms with developers on payment plans, enabling clients to acquire property as part of a larger portfolio. We are also happy to hold our initial consultations in either of our office or over the telephone or even by Skype depending on your preferences.

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Product design

Experience Invest offers developers a range of services to ensure the success of their development. Well-versed in structuring investment opportunities to ensure the product offering is competitive against similar products on the market

Market Analysis

Our process starts with initial legal due diligence checks on land title, planning and the various stakeholder’s abilities and track records. Once we are happy that all parties involved in the project have the means and capability for success, we will commence our detailed analysis.

Product Marketing

Experience Invest prides itself on having a very experienced in-house marketing team, with a broad range of expertise, and who know exactly what to do to create and implement a successful marketing campaign for various investments and asset classes.

Sales and Customer Service

We have a large team of sales professionals with many years’ experience. Each sales consultant has their own pool of clients, which include investors from all over the world including the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We believe that communication is key, that’s why each investor will be given a specialist Customer Care Manager to ensure all of their questions are dealt with.

Experience Invest works with leading property developers to create bespoke, high quality developments in these key areas. All opportunities have been designed to generate higher than average returns and, in some cases, investors can secure an early investor discount to increase capital growth potential upon completion. Learn more about Experience Invest Luton here. Before you decide to invest, read Experience Invest Instagram vast guide of articles and videos on things non-resident buyers need to know about investing in UK property here. You can also read the latest Experience Invest Reviews Freeindex here

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Here is the latest Experience Invest blog. There are some that will have you believe that when Brexit occurs, the UK is going to hell in a handbasket and UK business is going to suffer, along with the average house price.Whilst this isn’t beyond the realms of possibility, leaving the EU is not likely to be the shot to the heart of the UK economy that the average ‘Pro Remain’ voter will have you believe. The good news is that despite there being a ‘glass is half empty’ section of UK society who are fearing the worst come exit day, there are encouraging signs to the contrary. In today's blog, Experience Invest shares an important factor to consider for post-Brexit property investment

Investors should avoid viewing property investment as a black and white decision between residential and commercial real estate. While these two umbrella categories incorporate the overwhelming majority of properties available on the market, there is also a growing demand for non-traditional property investments.

In recent years specialist properties – such as hotels, student accommodation and care homes – have all experienced considerable increases in private investment. According to Knight Frank, activity in the specialist property sectors grew by 40% in 2017. It reflects the findings of Experience Invest’s aforementioned research from February 2019. It found that while houses (67%) and flats (54%) are the most common assets that investors are considering buying over the coming year, commercial (34%) and semicommercial (21%) real estate is also popular.

Furthermore, it uncovered that a quarter (24%) are looking to purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). A study from Knight Frank states that 29,000 purpose-built student bedrooms will be delivered across the UK by the start of the coming 2019/20 academic year; a 25% increase on the previous year’s figures.

The PBSA market is clearly worth investors considering post-Brexit. For one, the UK has some of the world’s leading universities, which results in large student communities and sizeable demand for PBSA. In fact, as of 2018 the UK had 98 institutions in the Times Higher Education rankings of the best 1,250 universities globally – only the United States and Japan have more.

Moreover, Brexit ought not to lessen demand for student properties. Of the 460,000 international students studying at UK universities, less than a third (140,000) come from the EU, says Experience Invest and as overseas students represent the largest demographic for PBSA, this market is likely to remain buoyant after Britain leaves the EU, Experience Invest added.

More generally, for investors with large portfolios, diversifying across different types of assets – from new-build flats and traditional homes through to hotel rooms and student accommodation – could place them in a position of strength following Brexit.

Importantly, keeping an open mind to different categories of real estate will ensure an investor is well positioned to source the best and most appropriate asset for their particular goals, whether that is a regular source of rental income or long-term capital gains.

Off-plan investments, for example, can deliver regular monthly returns to the investors over a number of years while also giving them ownership of an asset that can then deliver capital growth thereafter – offplan purchases span residential, commercial and specialist properties, and could provide the structured returns investors are looking for in the less assured post-Brexit climate.

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Experience Invest opens new office in South Africa

Welcome to Experience Invest blog. The London-headquartered company has established its new office to provide South African investors with direct access to property investment opportunities in the UK. Experience Invest's Cape Town office is located at Dock Road Junction, Corner of Stanley & Dock Road, 8001, South Africa. DaleAnderson, Head of Global Sales at Experience Invest, has relocated to South Africa to manage the new office.

The South African office will hold seminars, networking events and introduce new and existing investors to Experience Invest's products and services. With offices in London and Hong Kong, Experience Invest's latest office opening is part of its broader strategy to expand its global presence in both emerging and established markets.

The company will also be bolstering its presence in other countries throughout 2020, with its international expansion reflecting the significant levels of demand it is witnessing from overseas property investors. Dale Anderson, Head of Global Sales at Experience Invest, said: "I am delighted to announce the launch of our new South African office. It is another bold step as we expand into key global markets and it complements our existing European and Far Eastern hubs.

"There has been strong international demand for UK property for a long time, thanks largely to its ability to deliver both capital growth and healthy rental returns. This demand has increased notably over recent years, with real estate investors taking advantage of the weaker value of the pound to access the British market.

"As part of the launch, we will be running UK property investment seminars in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. The seminars will give current clients and new investors more information about the range of real estate projects Experience Invest is currently working on, and how they could be involved. Dates for these seminars will be announced shortly. There has been strong international demand for UK property for a long time, thanks largely to its ability to deliver both capital growth and healthy rental returns."

About Experience Invest

Experience Invest has over 15 years of expertise in providing UK property investment. With tailored solutions, every opportunity is designed to maximize returns and provide investors with a high-performing UK property. We believe in safe and secure property ownership and our properties are sold on a long leasehold agreement to provide investors with a tangible asset upon completion. With Experience Invest, each development is delivered to a high standard and is managed by an experienced and professional management company. Find out more about Experience Invest in the Experience Invest reviews page here. You can also connect with Experience Invest in Crunchbase here. Watch this video below to learn more:

Welcome to the Experience Invest blog. The Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) estimates that 14.5% of all deposits held are not protected by landlords or agents, while around 1.1 million tenancy deposits are unprotected. Landlords who fail to protect an assured shorthold tenancy deposit lose their right to evict and face court claims for compensation.

Given that the average new deposit is currently at £1,139, the penalty could be £4,556 per unprotected deposit. Around £1.2bn worth of deposits are not protected in tenancy deposit schemes.
Matthew Hooker, co-founder of Ome, said: “The reality is that the private rental sector is changing, and has been changing gradually through the formal introduction of deposit protection in 2006 and the subsequent launch of the more traditional protection schemes.

“It’s impossible to tell just how many deposits are still sat unprotected in the bank accounts of either rogue landlords or agents but based on market data we can make a conservative estimate that this total value runs into the hundreds of millions of pounds.

“We’d always advise tenants to check which deposit protection scheme your agent or landlord is part of and to make sure they give you the documentation confirming the deposit is protected. For landlords and agents that would rather not have to worry about the often arduous and risky process of managing a deposit, we’d recommend looking at products such as our own deposit replacement membership rather than hoping they don’t get caught. It removes the need to take cash deposits but keeps you protected should the worst happen.”

Financial firms appear pleased that the Bank of England opted to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.75%. Yesterday the Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep rates on hold, which has been taken as an endorsement of the state of the economy.

Giles Coghlan, chief currency analyst at HYCM, said: “In many ways, the decision to leave interest rates at 0.75% is welcoming news. It also means that interest rates could rise in the coming months should the so-called ‘Boris bounce’ continue and confidence in the UK economy return."

“More generally, today’s announcement shows the Bank of England is erring on the side of caution – while the UK economy is in a stable position, there are still many unknowns on the horizon which could drastically impact investors, businesses and consumers. Brexit, of course, is chief among them.”

Jerald Solis, director at London property investment service Experience Invest, said: “The Bank of England is cautiously optimistic about the future growth prospects of the economy, even with Brexit on the horizon.

“With interest rates hovering below 1% for over a decade now, the question on everybody’s minds is how long it will be before the Bank of England is prepared to increase the rate of interest to a whole percentage.”

Paresh Raja, chief executive at bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, said: “Investor confidence is returning, and we are likely to see the markets post a modest performance in the aftermath of this announcement.”

Despite the positive reaction, outgoing Bank of England Governor Mark Carney called for caution.
He said: “Although the global economy looks to be recovering, caution is warranted. Evidence of a pick-up in growth is not yet widespread.

“And any one of the known risks, such as a renewal of trade tensions, could reverse recent progress. The emerging threat from a new strain of coronavirus is a reminder of the need to be vigilant.”

Experience Invest has over 15 years expertise in providing UK property investment. With tailored solutions, every opportunity is designed to maximise returns and provide investors with a high-performing UK property. We believe in safe and secure property ownership and our properties are sold on a long leasehold agreement to provide investors with a tangible asset upon completion.
With Experience Invest, each development is delivered to a high standard and is managed my an experienced and professional management company. Find out more on the Experience Invest website. You can also connect with Experience Invest on Crunchbase here. Watch this video below to learn more:

Experience Invest has announced the launch of Yieldbase

Welcome to the Experience Invest blog. Experience Invest is a trusted source of knowledge and is a specialist provider of market-leading products to its ever-expanding database of over 120,000 clients.  Experience Invest has announced the launch of Yieldbase – an online platform dedicated to the buying and selling of income-generating rental properties.  The platform allows existing and prospective landlords to acquire and sell a range of investment properties, ranging from student accommodating to residential buy-to-let and commercial blocks.

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Yieldbase is one of the first platforms in the UK to offer property investors the opportunity to purchase and list full-managed rental properties. With a focus on new-build properties, each building listed on Yieldbase comes furnished and run by a management company, which is responsible for maintenance and arranging tenancy agreements.

The platform also ensures investors that hold buy-to-let property are able to liquidate their asset, by connecting sellers with buyers and therefore providing landlords with a clear exit route. Our fully managed UK property investments are completed and operational, so you know exactly what return to expect.

Commenting on the launch, Yieldbase director Jerald Solis said: “The UK’s buy-to-let market has long been sought after by both domestic and international investors. The launch of Yieldbase is going to simplify the marketplace – it will connect buyers and sellers of income-generating properties on a transparent, easy-to-use platform. This means they can enjoy the perks of being a property investor without the day-to-day hassle of being a landlord.”

Experience Invest is an established specialist property consultancy with a range of completed investments which are fully occupied and completed to a high standard. Check out Experience Invest website here and explore the benefits of investing in UK property. Read the latest Experience Invest news here. Alternatively, you can also read more Experience Invest reviews on the Experience Invest Reviews page here.

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Experience Invest On Cardiff as a Modern City Centre Student Accommodation 

Welcome to the Experience Invest blog. Experience Invest provides property investors in the UK and overseas access to exclusive investments across a variety of asset classes. Experience Invest has announced the launch of Opto Student Cardiff – a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) complex to be built in the heart of Cardiff.

Building work will begin in Q1 2020 with Opto Property Group handling the construction. The PBSA will host 728 modern studio rooms. Opto Student Cardiff is to include a wide range of modern communal facilities, including on-site gyms, a library, sky gardens, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, a wellness salon, and a spa treatment room, as well as communal courtyards.

The studio rooms are currently available as off-plan investments through Experience Invest, with self-contained apartments starting from £82,750. When purchasing an apartment, investors will receive 7.5% NET p.a. assured returns for three years. The apartments will also be delivered fully-furnished upon completion. There are roughly 42,000 university students in Cardiff, with nearly a fifth of all students in Wales coming from overseas. The PBSA development will help cater to a growing demand for modern and high-quality accommodation, particularly among international students.

Experience Invest’s Business Development and Acquisitions Director, Jerald Solis, said: “We have been working closely with Opto Property Group to deliver exceptional accommodation that caters to the changing needs of the modern student. I’m pleased to say Opto Student Cardiff is our fifth such venture, and we cannot wait for construction to start early next year.

Experience Invest was established in 2004, where its head office is based in London Victoria. Experience Invest is also one of the most well-established in the property industry and has a proven track record with over 10,000 units sold to investors from 65 countries across the globe. Arrange a one-on-one meeting with  Experience Invest here. Alternatively, you can also read  Experience Invest reviews on Freeindex and connect with the Experience Invest Linkedin page here.

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Experience Invest in Buying Overseas Property

Welcome to the Experience Invest property blog. Experience Invest is a UK property investment and high yielding income-generating assets including both student and residential properties. In today's blog, we talk about investment property in the UK.

The UK remains a very popular place for people to invest from overseas, thanks to its stability and the fact they can get strong returns from their investment. Even though financial crises and political uncertainty, UK property continues to perform well but if you are investing in UK property, there are some top tips you need to know.

Knowing what you want from the property purchase

Knowing your exact motivations behind the property purchase you will help you choose the right kind of property and investment.

Financing investment

One of the most important considerations that anyone coming from overseas to invest in the UK has to make is how they are going to finance their purchase of the property. While mortgage products are available both in the UK and in many other nations, off-plan property tends to require cash buyers.  Investors entering the off-plan investment market will often find that payments are spread out over the course of construction. In this scenario, it is worth speaking to the developer to ensure that funds can be transferred in a timely fashion to ensure that contracts are not breached.

UK taxes and other legal requirements

Taxation in the UK property market is quite unique and always changing, so it’s understandable that people coming from other countries might not know all that much about the situation. However, not knowing how and why you will be taxed can end up being a pricey mistake to make, as failing to factor in such charges can severely affect returns.

Currency exchange factors

Data released by JLL has shown that Asian investors made up 28% of UK property transactions in 2016, up from 17% in the previous year. In part, this increase has been driven by the falling value of sterling in light of the UK’s decision to leave the EU in June 2016.

Choose the right location

For those from overseas, keeping tabs on how different places in the UK are performing can be a difficult task.  Overseas clients typically see UK student accommodation as a good investment. Some investors, who have family members studying overseas, wish to buy and own student accommodation rather than rent.  Investors who have previously lived in the UK whilst studying also understand the market and the premium people are willing to pay for high-quality accommodation. This knowledge of the student sector has helped global student property transactions increase by 40% over the last 12 months.

Knowing the buying process

When buying through Experience Invest, you will also be required to pay a reservation fee which will come off your final balance. The legal Exchange of Contract and transfer of the property (conveyancing) is the next stage. You will need a solicitor or a licensed conveyor for this. You will need to appoint a Solicitor at this stage. Ensure you clarify whether VAT and/or disbursements is/are included in the upfront quotation. Conveyancing proceeds through an exchange of notes between the Seller’s Solicitor and your Solicitor. A “Draft Contract” will be drawn up by the seller’s solicitor containing the price and information about the Seller’s Title Deeds, etc.

Strategizing and management

Finally, when you are buying a home as an overseas investor, it’s absolutely vital that you take the time to consider how the property will be managed and how your income will be sustained. As you are more likely to not be in the UK for the majority of the year, you need someone to hand who can deal with lettings, rent collection, maintenance, and other issues.

Experience Invest offers exclusive and high yielding UK property investments including student accommodation, residential buy-to-let and hotel suites. Learn more about Experience Invest here. Find out what genuine customers have said about the service and products of Experience Invest in the Experience Invest Reviews here. The latest Tweets and updates from Experience Invest here.

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Experience Invest on Extended UK Work Visas 

Welcome to the Experience Invest property blog. Experience Invest has been in business for at least a decade and has a wealth of information to share, whether you’re a first-time investor or a property connoisseur.  In today’s blog post we share about the housing finance reform.

The UK government this month provided some good news for international students planning to pursue their education in Britain, announcing a new two-year, post-study work visa that will help them get their careers underway after graduating. Overseas students are an important target market for investors in purpose-built student accommodation, partly because they are often willing to pay higher-than-average rents for housing that provides all the amenities they need and is in a convenient location.

The announcement of the post-study visa is the latest in a series of encouraging signs for this particular segment of the student population.

The two-year post-study work visa is part of the graduate immigration route, which will be open to all international students who have valid UK immigration status and have successfully completed their studies at the undergraduate level or above. It will allow eligible individuals to work, or seek work, at any skill level and in any subject.

One of the key aims of the initiative is to bring more valuable international talent into the UK, cementing the country’s status as a “science superpower” and a world leader in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) sector.

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Experience Invest Shares UK's Best Property Hotspots 2019  

Welcome to the Experience Invest property blog. In today's blog post we delve into the UK property market according to Halifax’s House Price Index. Read on to find out more.

The UK property market was slow in 2018. With the effect of Brexit having a negative effect on the market, many will shy away from investing altogether in UK assets amid fear that investments will continue to fall in value.

Data from Halifax’s House Price Index house prices across the country increased by an average of 1.3% in 2018. Amidst political deadlock in Westminster and the prospect of a no-deal Brexit on the horizon, such growth is impressive. Delving into the performances of individual regions, however, there were some clear highlights. Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham, for instance, all experienced house price growth at around 6%. House prices are an effective measure of capital growth and are determined by market demand. For this reason, we asked investors which UK region they are considering as part of their property investment strategies for 2019. The results reaffirmed what has been unfolding across all the major house price trackers; namely, while London still holds great appeal, more and more investors are looking outside of the capital for bricks and mortar assets.

• Greater London 37% 
• North West 30% 
• Midlands 23% 
• South East 22% 
• Yorkshire 21% 
• North East 18% 
• South West 17% 
• Scotland 8% 
• Wales 5% 
• East Anglia 4% 
• Northern Ireland 2%

Bottomline.

Seek value in the market. Identify an investment that is receiving growth and is also in a high-demand area (think the North). Consider also diversifying your property investments, putting all of your metaphorical eggs into one basket is ill-advised. Consider investing in a variety of property types, if this is within your means to do so, as this will spread the risk of losing money on a single investment. The property market, as stated, will be difficult to forecast for the coming year. Focus on your long-term strategy, and with the advice above, we are confident you will make a return.

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