{"id":1290,"date":"2014-06-02T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:50:27","slug":"student-cities-top-of-the-pops-for-buy-to-let-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/student-cities-top-of-the-pops-for-buy-to-let-landlords.html","title":{"rendered":"Student Cities Top of the Pops for Buy to Let Landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.hmo_multi_let.html#watch-demo-anchor\">Student properties<\/a> have historically offered good rental yields for landlords, but according to HSBC, student \u2018housing cities\u2019 are now the biggest buy to let hotspots in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are Student Housing Cities?<\/strong><br \/>\nStudent Housing Cities are purpose built blocks of accommodation strictly for student habitation. They are often new build and landlords are asked to make an investment of between \u00a340k and \u00a360k per room. A developer usually takes care of the day-to-day management student city properties, which can be a big bonus for many landlord investors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Student City Hot Spots<\/strong><br \/>\nCambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Southampton and Nottingham all feature in the top ten of cities most likely to give you a good return on your investment, but despite all the favourable advertising claims made by property sellers, experts are warning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.property_pictures.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlords<\/a> that investing in student housing city properties is not without its risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the high headline yields often touted, student accommodation funds are high risk,\u201d say financial advisers, Chase de Vere. \u201cThey are usually based offshore, are unregulated, have high charges and can suffer from poor liquidity, meaning it might be difficult to get your money back when you want it. They are more suitable for institutions than retail investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The risk of losing on your investment is pretty high and if the developer overestimates the rental yield on the properties or goes into liquidation, you may be left high and dry. This type of property investment is not for the risk averse, so do your homework before ploughing your life savings into such a scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student properties have historically offered good rental yields for landlords, but according to HSBC, student \u2018housing cities\u2019 are now the biggest buy to let hotspots in the UK. What are Student Housing Cities? Student Housing Cities are purpose built blocks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/student-cities-top-of-the-pops-for-buy-to-let-landlords.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}