Something I don't get about property sales in Englandshire...

[d000hg]

I'm considering buying an investment property down south, I'm browsing I can see the pictures. Now location of course impacts price, which is easy to identify. Size / dimensions is next. But nearly every site I view does not give the square meterage of footage of the property as a whole despite size being one of the defining factors of cost. What utter uselessness.

Rant over.

Each room is normally sized but not the whole, because in England this is NOT what defines the cost.

[MicrosoftBob]

My Trust shall own the property. I'll not pay taxes on it. My citizenship status is irrelevant. This all might make the neighbour next door upset but I don't give a sheet.

Have the trust formed in Ireland, and with profits repatriated to it's Dutch parent company which you then pay back to your irish company, and then pay out the money to which ever tax haven will let you open an account

[barrydidit]

Plus it's money in a stable currency, unlike anything you might earn in Scotland.

I'd heard they were going to print Pounds Stirling to confuse the Chinese into buying their bonds by accident.

[scooterscot]

Plus it's money in a stable currency, unlike anything you might earn in Scotland.

It's all win win. Aberdeen is also the other place I'm considering.

If the currency were stable when did we print so much of it and drop rates to the floor? Lucky the currency is no longer pegged to gold or we'd be in real trouble.

[VectraMan]

I can charge a lot more rent on a place down south than up north.

Plus it's money in a stable currency, unlike anything you might earn in Scotland.

[scooterscot]

It's Ok, once he's no longer a UK citizen we can burn it down in the upcoming Scots immigrant pogrom

Salmond assumes that an independent Scotland will get EU membership, I think if it happens it will take a loooooong time and be on terms the Scots won't like. I can see Spain at the very least trying to veto the membership of a breakaway country because of the Basques and Catalans.

My Trust shall own the property. I'll not pay taxes on it. My citizenship status is irrelevant. This all might make the neighbour next door upset but I don't give a sheet.

[scooterscot]

Surely you're expecting houses prices to drop in England once King Salmond creates an economic powerhouse next and wouldn't consider buying an investment property there

You've assumed they've went up in the first place. They haven't.

I can charge a lot more rent on a place down south than up north.

[TykeMerc]

Surely you're expecting houses prices to drop in England once King Salmond creates an economic powerhouse next and wouldn't consider buying an investment property there

It's Ok, once he's no longer a UK citizen we can burn it down in the upcoming Scots immigrant pogrom

Salmond assumes that an independent Scotland will get EU membership, I think if it happens it will take a loooooong time and be on terms the Scots won't like. I can see Spain at the very least trying to veto the membership of a breakaway country because of the Basques and Catalans.

[Mich the Tester]

Surely you're expecting houses prices to drop in England once Kim-Il Salmond creates an economic powerhouse next ...

ftfy

[MicrosoftBob]

Surely you're expecting houses prices to drop in England once King Salmond creates an economic powerhouse next and wouldn't consider buying an investment property there

[ChimpMaster]

They do but only when the agent can be bothered to draw up and attach a floor plan. The market is moving so fast that agents are simply very keen to get the property up on the usual sites as fast as possible, regardless of how much information they have.

I've seen adverts put up with 'No Photos' and 'Details coming soon' ... and in the end the property usually sells before the agent even bothers to put this additional information up!

[scooterscot]

I'm considering buying an investment property down south, I'm browsing I can see the pictures. Now location of course impacts price, which is easy to identify. Size / dimensions is next. But nearly every site I view does not give the square meterage of footage of the property as a whole despite size being one of the defining factors of cost. What utter uselessness.

Rant over.