With the first months of 2025 underway, property investors and developers reflect on what was a challenging past year. This time last year, GDP was flat, inflation was stubbornly sitting at 4% and the Bank of England’s base rate had flatlined at 5.25% following two Monetary Policy Committee ‘hold’ votes after 15 consecutive rate increases. And with a General Election looming, the political landscape looked uncertain from both a UK and...
Continue ReadingIn this article, Mike Bristow, CEO of CrowdProperty, examines insights from our SME Property Developer survey - the largest ever undertaken in the sector with over 500 participants - to help you distinguish some of the factors you critically need ...
Zoopla and online property auction giant Iamsold recently announced an 'industry-first' deal in which the portal will promote "modern method of auction" services to its member agents in a bid to kick-start greater adoption of auctions among vendor...
SSAS pensions enable greater flexibility for investment options, such as holding P2P property loans – another way to enjoy tax-free returns with CrowdProperty.
The Government recently announced new permitted development rights coming into force on 1 August which will allow the construction of up to two storeys above existing buildings to create new homes. CrowdProperty's Airspace Development Finance prod...
As part of our last update, we looked at the state of the property market as a result of Covid-19 and what we might expect going forward. With the lockdown lifting and restrictions continuing to ease, we share the latest industry views on the outl...
Not only did our survey, the largest ever undertaken with SME property professionals like you, highlight the importance to you of speed, ease and certainty of finance, but also your need for transparency from your property project lender. ...
We hope this update finds you and your families safe and well.
At CrowdProperty, we believe in bringing you, our lenders, the very best residential property project lending opportunities (quality projects being undertaken by quality propert...
As a property professional undertaking property projects, you are critically important to the country in these times. You can be economically productive right now, and you can bring further economic productivity into the economy as the Covid-19 si...
The new ISA season is now - use your £20,000 ISA allowance early to benefit from inflation-beating up to 8% tax-free secured returns.
‘ISA Season’ has traditionally been at the end of the personal tax year, in particular in March, w...
We hope you and your families are safe and well in these unprecedented times. We feel it’s critically important to keep communicating throughout this period so we can work together through the many challenges we may all face.
In thi...
The Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) is a very powerful proposition when used on first-charge secured property project lending with the rigour that CrowdProperty applies to all lending opportunities.
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The headline is, of course, from Rudyard Kipling – though not the second part, for which we claim full responsibility.
Kipling’s advice is sound: we’re seeing a huge amount of destruction of value in markets. For the many who have their pen...
In view of the escalating situation regarding COVID-19 in the UK, we wanted to make you aware of the provisions we have put in place at CrowdProperty to minimise impact on all fronts.
First of all, we are following official governme...
