Off Plan Investments - Helping you profit from property

Whether you’re a first time buyer, looking for a place of your own or a seasoned investor, wishing to add to your investment portfolio. Off Plan Investments can deliver benefits to a wide range of current and potential property buyers including:

• First Time Buyers
• Existing Investors
• New Investors

We sell hundreds of properties each year, it would not be financially viable for the company to keep all of them. However, we do invest in most of the developments we sell to our investors, so you can be sure we put our money where our mouth is.

The simple answer to this is YES. In fact if you are lending money to finance your purchase you will have to. When you arrange a mortgage your bank/building society will insist on an independent valuation using a RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) registered firm. This will ensure, you and your lender that a full unbiased market valuation will take place.

In most cases the property we offer you will come ready tenanted. If the property is untenanted, we will always recommend a number of local lettings agents for you to use at a reduced Off Plan Investments rate.

When you want to officially reserve a property we ask for a reservation fee. Typically this is £1000 - £2000 but it can vary from development to development. You send this money in and (unless stated otherwise) it is non refundable, if you decide to pull out for whatever reason at a later stage. We do this to ensure that investors are serious when they say they want a property. When investors pull out it can have a negative impact on relations with developers. We do this to ensure that investors think carefully before committing. However, it is important to understand that this is not an extra cost. The reservation fee is refunded in full upon completion.

Where the property is a UK development we ask investors in the first instance to send their money to Off Plan Investments client account This can either be done by cheque or credit card We then use that money on account to reserve on your behalf with the developer .. This account is separate to its current account which it uses for trading. In the case of overseas property this is done to take advantage of getting the best rates possible through Ready 2 Rent’s chosen foreign exchange broker.

You will be appointed your own personal account manager who acts as your point of contact on all deals. If you have a query or problem, no matter how trivial or small, your account manager will be only too happy to talk you through things.

If you are dissatisfied with Off Plan Investments in any way then Justin Barker, the Managing Director, will always be willing to listen to any of your issues and can be contacted through the switchboard on 0800 034 1622.

The return offered from property has outperformed equities and gilts over the past 10 years.

• Since 1948 property in the UK has risen on average 11.3% year on year since 1948
• In the 32 years the Department Of Records have kept statistics ,house prices in the UK have risen in 28 years and fallen in only 4
• Since 1962 . The office of national statistics have recorded that rents have risen on average by 13% per annum.
• A recent study predicts that by 2020 ,house prices will grow from £101,161 to £300,643 by 2020. If you buy a house today, you can expect its value to rise by 197% over the next 16 years.
• There is already a shortage of 4 million homes in the UK and the population is expected to rise by 10% in the next 25 years.
• Experts have forecast house prices will continue to rise by 20% over the next 48 months.