FP TV (EP 24) BEHIND THE SCENES: What does your Estate Agent do for your money? (Watch/read/listen) min read)

Jim Parker February 24, 2021

 

Listen to the PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/fife-properties/episodes/FP-TV-EP-24-BEHIND-THE-SCENES-What-does-your-Estate-Agent-do-for-your-money-er5n51

 

“Put it on the Internet and wait for the phone to ring”. That’s perhaps how many people see an estate agent’s life, and there’s undoubtedly some mystery around precisely what agents do beyond putting a property on the market and showing people around. (more…)

Fife Landlord Show (EP 1) DEPOSIT DISPUTES: Why Do So Many Landlords Lose! (Read/watch/listen)

Jim Parker February 21, 2021

 

Listen to the PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/fife-properties/episodes/Fife-Landlord-Show-EP1-DEPOSIT-DISPUTES-Why-Do-So-Many-Landlords-Lose-er7kj0

 

Ending up in a dispute at the end of a tenancy is one of the least inviting prospects of being a landlord, and thankfully most tenancies end perfectly amicably. But when they do end in disagreement, many landlords manage to lose their claim, leading them to feel that the system is weighted against them. (more…)

FP TV (EP 22) The Busiest December for the Fife Housing Market Since 2006 (Read/watch/listen)

Jim Parker February 10, 2021

 

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/fife-properties/episodes/FPTV-EP-22-The-Busiest-December-for-the-Fife-Housing-Market-Since-2006-eq90vp

Over the last six months, the Fife Property Market has been flourishing. As soon as an estate agent’s ‘For Sale’ flag went up, neighbours would be checking out Rightmove to see the internal pictures and compare the asking price to their own home (go on … admit you do that too – every Fife homeowner does). Flabbergasted by optimistic asking price tags, those same Fife homeowners stand open-mouthed to see a sold slip added to the board a few weeks later. (more…)

FP TV (EP 21) Build a Portfolio of Popular & Profitable Lettings in Fife (Read/Watch/Listen)

Jim Parker February 7, 2021

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/fife-properties/episodes/FP-TV-EP-21-Build-a-Portfolio-of-Popular–Profitable-Lettings-in-Fife-eqbntr

 

Do you think it’s impossible to be popular AND profitable as a landlord? Perhaps you feel that one cancels out the other; that it’s a choice between hard-nosed business and being nice, but that the two are fundamentally incompatible?

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FPTV (EP 20) 11% drop in Fife Homes ‘For Sale’ in Last 3 Months What does this mean for Fife property owners? (3 min read, 60 min watch)

Jim Parker February 4, 2021

With most Fife families home schooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, less Fife properties have been coming onto the Fife property market since the new year. This has prompted a 11% drop in the supply of Fife homes for sale compared to November 2020. (more…)

Should the Stamp Duty Tax Holiday be Extended for the Fife Property Market? (3 min read)

Jim Parker January 27, 2021

Most people pay Stamp Duty when they buy a property, house, apartment or other land and buildings over a particular price in the UK. The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak (quickly followed suit by the Welsh and Scottish Governments), announced last July that Stamp Duty was partially being suspended on all English property transactions up to £500,000 (£250,000 in Wales and Scotland) – a Stamp Duty Tax Holiday (although Stamp Duty was renamed in 2015 in Scotland as the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax). (more…)

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