Reading a property
The judgements behind buying well: tenants, yields, pitch and tenure.
Tenant covenants: why who is paying the rent matters most
Tenant covenant strength explained: why who pays the rent matters more than how long the lease runs, how it is assessed, the security available, and why long leases can disappoint.
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Yield explained: passing rent, ERV and reversion
Commercial property yield explained: passing rent, ERV, initial and reversionary yield, a worked example, why reversion may not happen, gross against net, and what yield says about risk.
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What makes a retail pitch "prime"?
What makes a retail pitch prime: footfall, anchors, desire lines, continuity of frontage and configuration, and why the gap between prime and secondary pitches has widened so far.
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Freehold or leasehold: which to buy and why
Freehold or leasehold for commercial investment: the difference in substance, why the unexpired term matters so much, what to examine in a lease, and when leasehold is the sensible choice.
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What one empty shop does to income
A worked illustration of what stops, what continues and what reletting costs when a commercial unit falls empty.
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The landlord's job, listed
The 1954 Act, reviews, breaks, service charge, insurance, repair, dilapidations, arrears, EPC and MEES, and empty rates.
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What actually happens at a rent review
Review dates, upward-only provisions, the hypothetical letting, comparable evidence and third-party referral.
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The sectors we buy, and what drives rent in each
Retail, office, industrial, leisure, mixed use and development, and what drives and threatens rent in each.
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For professional advisers
A separate section for IFAs, wealth managers, accountants, private client solicitors and SIPP and SSAS administrators: the regulatory position on property syndicates, promotion rules, suitability, professional indemnity and operator due diligence.