{"id":1579,"date":"2010-07-30T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castle-estates.co.uk\/lettings-blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-05-15T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T07:31:17","slug":"property-landlord-advice-off-plan-purchasing-is-now-the-right-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/2010\/07\/30\/property-landlord-advice-off-plan-purchasing-is-now-the-right-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Landlord Advice: Off Plan Purchasing \u2013 Is now the right time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>By Samantha Knight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Sam-Photo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Sam-Photo1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-163 aligncenter\" title=\"Sam Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Sam-Photo1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A\u00a0bit of a dilemma?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As somebody who now runs a Company offering both Property Management and Consultancy services,\u00a0I have been heavily involved in discussions with Landlords about the manner and timing for making a purchase and in todAys climate the question of when rather than if is becoming more relevent. Timing is never an easy to decision, but in a market whereby prices are gradually creeping back up, if you select the right area, buying \u2018off plan\u2019 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">right now<\/span> could well be the best choice you ever made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lets keep it simple.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Choose your property from the site plan with the added benefit in most cases of having input in the finish of tiles, flooring, kitchen units and layouts.\u00a0\u00a0Secure your price now and pay only that fixed price when the property is built and ready for hand over.\u00a0 Get in early enough on a development and you may well find yourself buying a property that upon completion has \u00a31000\u2019s of equity already in it.\u00a0\u00a0Who could ask for a better deal than that?!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A long term property investment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The risk will always be will the market rise or wont it?, but inevitably it will whether you make your \u00a31000\u2019s on completion now or in the years to come.\u00a0\u00a0Finding new build sites may be the hard part, but with reports from the construction industry that development is back on the rise \u2013 it\u2019s got to be worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>Seek advise from your letting agent on where best to buy to meet the current demand of the rental market- a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castle-estates.co.uk\">national agent <\/a>will always be able to offer the best unbias advice on the current hot spot locations across the UK.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Samantha Knight A\u00a0bit of a dilemma? As somebody who now runs a Company offering both Property Management and Consultancy services,\u00a0I have been heavily involved in discussions with Landlords about the manner and timing for making a purchase and in todAys climate the question of when rather than if is becoming more relevent. Timing is <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/2010\/07\/30\/property-landlord-advice-off-plan-purchasing-is-now-the-right-time\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[24,65,67,37,72],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.castle-estates.co.uk\/staffordshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}