Archive for October, 2008
Returns from Property
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Alan Forsyth.
Posted on 28 November 2007
Myself and James Syson, our portfolio manager have sat down with around 100 investors over the last 6 weeks, and a common theme throughout has been investors not being sure what returns on their investment they are achieving – and therefore their ideas on what properties are performing best are often [...]
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Investment Property in Wroclaw in Poland
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Alan Forsyth.
Posted on 05 November 2007
There is a shortfall of 42,000 houses in Wroclaw – and Knight Frank’s have calculated it will take 16 years to meet this current demand at the current building rate of just 2600 units per year – and this demand is increasing every day due to the maturation of the baby [...]
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Buy to Let – excellent way to grow your own Business
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Alan Forsyth.
Posted on 15 October 2007
When I sit down with investors and they ask me what area of property investing they should go into, I almost always will say go for buy to let and will relate it to business.
If you think of large businesses and how they measure growth and performance – they will continually [...]
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Huge Demand for Property in Sofia
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Alan Forsyth.
Posted on 14 June 2007
Hi,
I have just had 3 days in Sofia, checking on the market. I have been targetting the housing market there – as there is a huge under supply – indeed there are no large scale developers building houses.
This seems incredible considering there is a demand for a minimum of 60,000 new [...]
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Knight Frank Latest Ratings
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Alan Forsyth.
Posted on 29 May 2007
Hi All,
As reported in the Sunday Times lenders are restricting the best rates to those on higher salaries eg RBS will lend 100% rental coverage but only if you earn £75k per annum or more. It would appear they are trying to protect themselves from new investors and those on low [...]

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