Two firsts at Kingswood for CapitalStackers
A highly attractive scheme in Surrey has tempted CapitalStackers to invest outside their normal corridor of expertise in the North – and also to partner with a new senior lender. A luxury apartment...
View ArticleWhose idea was it anyway?
Who came up with the wheeze for housebuilders to retain freeholds on the sale of a house and charge the new leasehold owner a (seemingly innocuous) ground rent that doubles every ten years? And how did...
View ArticleLancashire ”Silver Village” development raises £960,000 through CapitalStackers
CapitalStackers investors pledged the best part of £1 million in just a few days to part fund the development costs of 48 apartments for the Over-55s in Thornton Cleveleys, standing to make returns...
View ArticleChange the record, Dr Hindsight
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain once remarked when an overexcited journalist transmuted the illness of a friend Twain was visiting into the fanciful poverty-stricken death...
View ArticleBritain needs competent P2P operators more than ever
Shouldn’t the FCA proposals to ban promotion of P2P property development lending differentiate between pooled and direct lending? What will happen if they don’t? The FCA has come in for a good deal of...
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The housing market. Bubble or squeak?
The eager clamour from experts and economists to forecast the bursting of the UK property “bubble” is becoming ever more shrill. The reasons they give are varied, but largely boil down to: the drop in...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences of the State-Backed Covid Recovery Schemes
There is an unwritten law that the larger the scale on which a Government tries to help, the more the Law of Unintended Consequences comes into play. For example – in recent months, we’ve seen the...
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Are house price forecasters finally justified in using the C-word?
As we reported in September [1], the property market continued to boom despite the direst predictions of experts. But given recent global events, is there reason for pundits to predict a crash? In our...
View ArticleStamping out the great lease fleece – an update
Back in December 2020, we highlighted the highly immoral practice [1] of housebuilders selling to new homeowners, but retaining the freeholds and selling them on to third parties who then charged a...
View ArticleCapitalStackers development funding passes £150m
Raising £540,000 for a development of 9 detached executive homes in North Yorkshire has taken CapitalStackers’ deals past the milestone of £150 million raised in total for building projects – whilst...
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