The Model Works

The Model Works explains freezing out first-time buyers is creating a time bomb for the government.

Negative buy-to-let returns, the unregulated nature of the market and the tax treatment of property investment are just some of the reasons buy-to-let advisers should ideally be qualified investment advisers.

The Model Works warns brokers must keep their wits about them when it comes to buy to let.

You might imagine that a new and objective indices that exposes serious inaccuracies in the buy-to-let data provided to the press might create a stir in the trade journals if not in the nationals but such an indices was launched by The Model Works a few weeks sans a seismic reaction.

Scores of buy-to-let investors are making losses or at best breaking even because of falling house prices and hidden costs, claims The Model Works.

The Model Works new buy-to-let profitability index confirms that geared buy-to-let investors are experiencing losses on short term investments.

Private rental is flourishing but that does not mean everything in the garden is rosy.

The Model Works claim indices leave out crucial data such as void periods, the cost of arrears, management charges and comparisons with investments other than property.

Brian Hall, founder of the Model Works, a new body to produce housing data hits out at existing indices from LSL Property Services and BM Solutions.

The Model Works launches a new buy-to-let profitability index. This exposes the degree to which established industry indices are incomplete, inaccurate and biased.