Capital Partner

08/02/2023

Birmingham Project Completed For A Client To Retain.

Purchase Price £190,000
Build Cost £40,000
GDV £275,000
Guaranteed Rent £1,200
Sourcing Fees £5,000

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09/09/2022

1926 - 2022. Rest In Peace Your Majesty

10/08/2022

The sun has set on the Commonwealth Games, which broadcast Birmingham on the big screen to an international audience. People all over the world have now seen what we Brummies have always known – that the second city is a vibrant, exciting place to live.

From the library at Centenary Square to the Selfridges building at the Bull Ring, from the beautifully ornate town hall at Victoria Square to the tranquil canals and the iconic Cube building by the Mailbox, Birmingham has never looked better.

Already this worldwide showcase has turned the heads of overseas investors. Since the games started, the phones at the Capital Partner office have been ringing from places like Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, and Gibraltar.

Capital Partner have been operating in the West Midlands for eight years at this point, so Birmingham is our bread and butter, meanwhile this is the first time that some overseas investors have paid close attention to the heartlands of the UK. Now they want our help to source the right property investment for them, and we are more than happy to oblige.

Renovation and regeneration in the city continue apace, with HS2 and the Smithfield regeneration project on the horizon. The Birmingham of ten or twenty years ago is now practically unrecognisable, and will continue to improve as more investment floods into the city.

For these reasons, speed is of the essence. In this business, it pays to get in early before property prices have shot up. Overseas investors don’t want to spend weeks and months doing their homework to decide what to invest in, and where. Far better is to partner up with Capital Partner – we’ve been doing that homework for eight years.

The Commonwealth Games might be over, but it is just the beginning.

04/08/2022

OFF MARKET
Stoke On Trent - 26 Units

(18 studios and 8 1-bed apartments). It was an office to resi conversion, of the first and second floor, completed in 2020. All the units are on the same lease. The lease is owned in a company, with no other assets in that company, so the buyer could buy the company, if it was easier (and cheaper).

Sale price £2.34m
(av. £90k per unit). Average rent is £525 pm = a 7% yield overall.
999 years lease
Ground rent pepper corn
Service charge £750 per quarter
2% Sourcing fees apply

03/08/2022

14 Bedroom (all en-suite) located in Newcastle Under Lyme and on the doorstep of Staffordshire University. All rooms are fully let. This would be a great investment for an investor who wants a turn-key property that already has high rental income in a capital growth area.

Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire (14 BED HMO)

Purchase Price: £788,600
Gross Yield: 11.08%
Illustrative ROI: 26.43%
Freehold
Annualised Gross Rental Income - £87,360
Net annual rental income (including utilities and management) - £65,520

2% Sourcing fees applies

02/08/2022

We have a Greater Manchester Block available in Leigh.

This is an off-market exclusive deal in Greater Manchester of 10 self-contained apartments developed 3 years ago including a furniture pack for each unit. Detached Property with roadside parking. The units are rented on an all-inclusive rent including council tax, water, electricity and internet.

Purchase price £650,000
999 years lease
No ground rent or service charge
Gross annual rental income - £67,560, Yield - 11%.
Net annual rental Income £43,200, Yield 7%.
All units are 14sqm – 19sqm
2% Sourcing fees apply

01/08/2022

As a rule, overseas investors don’t tend to refurbish their properties very often. It’s understandable – if you can’t be there in person to visit the property and check the refurbishment is being done to your exacting specifications, it’s a risk to let someone else loose on your property.

However, working with Capital Partner means that even if you can’t physically visit the property, we can. We operate in the UK and work with clients from all over the world, from Luxembourg to the Netherlands to Hong Kong. If you need someone to manage a refurbishment from start to finish, we can oversee that project for you.

Working with us minimises the risk that comes from being hundreds or thousands of miles away from your property. We make sure that the builders hired for the refurbishment are trustworthy and competent, and we regularly check in to make sure it’ll be finished on time. We communicate your vision for the refurbishment to the builders, and we make sure that it doesn’t exceed your budget.

And if anything goes wrong beyond our control, or anything unexpected happens, our solid track record attests to the fact that we’re well practiced in putting out fires.

Of course, refurbishing your property may not be something you are actively interested in doing. Nevertheless, working with Capital Partner gives you the confidence that if anything were to go wrong with your property, we’d be able to visit the property and deal with it in person.

Above all, working with Capital Partner gives you security and peace of mind that your investment is in safe hands.

26/07/2022

Renovating properties can be a headache. And I’m not just talking about the noise.

If you work in the property industry for long enough, you’ll probably have the misfortune of working with tardy builders that work slowly, take long breaks, and finish early. You’ll know the stress that comes with seeing your schedule falling further and further behind. These experiences, I’m sure, are responsible for some of the grey hairs on my head.

The situation can be more stressful still when using money from lenders, such as banks or angel investors. If the work isn’t completed on time, these investors are legally able to seize your asset or hike your loan’s interest rate.

At Capital Partner, we’ve learned how to deal with situations like this more effectively. We have our trusted builders that we know we can rely on to do a good job and keep to the schedule. And if we have to work with other builders, we have our network of industry professionals and investors to offer recommendations or – as the case may be – tell us who to avoid.

We are always at hand to visit the property in person to check on the work’s progress, and liaise with the builders to make sure they understand the brief, and troubleshoot any misunderstandings or mistakes that are made before they escalate into a problem.

Renovating a property on your own is difficult, especially if you’re a newcomer in this space, or an overseas investor that can’t visit the property in person, often or ever.

Our company provides turn-key investments to our clients, which involves handling all the particularities of property renovation for you. We’re well experienced handling our own investments, and we use that experience to help you with yours, so you can be sure the renovation will be completed on time and to plan.

Trust us with your investment and property renovation will be a breeze – so you can finally put down the aspirin.

24/05/2022

If you’ve seen Dragon’s Den, you’ll know it can get a bit heated when a budding entrepreneur fails to come up with any convincing first-year projections for their business. In a panic, they come up with something, but it’s obvious that they’ve conjured these numbers out of thin air. Cue shots of the Dragons rolling their eyes.

In any business, it’s important to know your numbers, and especially in property investment. If you don’t, you’re liable to make bad decisions that could be extremely costly.

Before investing, you need to do your homework. You need to know about the rate of capital appreciation in the area, how quickly other properties are being sold, and how many of these properties are rented. You need to know the market value of the property, the likely sale price were you to develop it, the potential return on your investment based on yield and outgoing costs… The list goes on.

To put it bluntly, if you can’t find the time to know your numbers, you won’t last long in the world of property. Rushing into an investment without adequate consideration is a recipe for disaster – if you’re going to do this, you’ve got to do it right.

If you’re keen to invest in property but are juggling a chaotic schedule and struggling to find the time, consider working with a property investment company, like Capital Partner. We work with prospective investors that want to make money and learn the ropes on the job. We crunch the numbers on your behalf, making the process of investing in property that much easier.

And, ultimately, we want to turn you into the kind of investor that covers all bases before making a purchase, that never throws their capital into an investment without doing their due diligence beforehand.

Remember: know your numbers. If you don’t, success is a lottery, and it’s rigged against you.