Free resources for property investors
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of households who rent privately has risen by 61% in a single decade. The ONS data shows 2.8 million households renting privately in 2008, compared to 4.5 million in 2017.
Figures from Foxtons, meanwhile, show that intense demand from private tenants has carried on into 2018. The firm reported an average of just under nine registered tenants for every new rental listing – its highest ever level. 2018 renter registrations increased by 8% over the course of the year, when compared to 2017 levels.
With demand outstripping supply, there’s a strong case for investing in buy to let property in sought after areas – provided the sums stack up.
“It’s important to understand the full financial commitment of investing in a buy to let property. In addition to the cost of the home itself, investors need to factor in outgoings such as stamp duty and mortgage interest, as these will have a bearing on the overall yield.”
Jonathan Stephens, MD, Surrenden Invest
As a property investment company that is keen to support investors to profit from their property decisions, the Surrenden Invest team has created two new calculators as part of the company’s revamped website.
The mortgage calculator uses monthly mortgage payments based on currently available buy to let mortgage products to indicate how much an investor’s mortgage repayments are likely to be. Surrenden Invest provides it as a free-to-use resource for anyone considering investing in a buy to let property.
Surrenden Invest’s other free resource is its stamp duty calculator. Stamp duty is payable to HMRC within 14 days of the purchase of a residential property, including an investment property. The amount due depends on whether it is your first or second (or subsequent) property and on the value of the property. With different rates of stamp duty applied based on different price bands, working out what you will owe can involve several sums. The Surrenden Invest calculator performs all of these in under a second, providing an instant indication of how much stamp duty a particular buy to let investment will require an investor to pay.
“We would encourage all those who are considering investing in residential property, whether for the first time or the tenth, to use our mortgage and stamp duty calculators. It takes less than a minute to use both calculators, thus providing investors with a fast, accurate indication of what the buy to let property they are considering is really going to cost them.”
Jonathan Stephens, MD, Surrenden Invest
