{"id":1387,"date":"2014-11-24T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:26:03","slug":"buy-to-let-real-estate-investment-trusts-launched-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/buy-to-let-real-estate-investment-trusts-launched-in-the-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"Buy to Let Real Estate Investment Trusts Launched in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be a time-consuming affair being a landlord. Dealing with tenants, sorting out problems in your properties and keeping up with the paperwork all takes time and effort, which if you work full-time is an impossible proposition. But there is an answer if you want to give property investment a go without getting your hands dirty as a full-time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.cashflow_analysis.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlord<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The REIT Scheme<\/strong><br \/>\nReal Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) are not a new idea \u2013 they were introduced into the UK back in 2007 \u2013 but this is the first time a mainstream UK residential property REIT has been made available to UK investors.<\/p>\n<p>How it works is very simple. Investors buy shares in the REIT and any profits made as a result of rental income and capital gains are tax-free. There is a minimum investment of \u00a31,000 in the REIT platform SyndicateRoom, but investors can drip-feed cash into the scheme and take out 90% of the rental profits as a dividend payment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Win-win Opportunity<\/strong><br \/>\nThe owner of the REIT says the scheme is a win-win investment opportunity for would-be buyers as it can help investors realise a tax efficient income from the buy to let market without the need for a significant investment of time and capital.<\/p>\n<p>House prices in many parts of the country are putting investment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.cashflow_analysis.html#watch-demo-anchor\">properties<\/a> out of reach for many small investors and with mortgage interest rates expected to rise in the next twelve months, a residential REIT is a liquid alternative to buying and managing a traditional buy to let property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be a time-consuming affair being a landlord. Dealing with tenants, sorting out problems in your properties and keeping up with the paperwork all takes time and effort, which if you work full-time is an impossible proposition. But there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/buy-to-let-real-estate-investment-trusts-launched-in-the-uk.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-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","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=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}