250 monthly editions not out - which represents a milestone achievement for Property Investor News and its print magazine. And on behalf of the team we would like to express our thanks to those loyal and still active subscribers who’ve been with us throughout the last 22 years. You know who you are and your ongoing support is very much appreciated.
For once in this monthly column I am going to be somewhat self- indulgent and reflect a little on what has occurred and to comment on what I have observed since 2002. More importantly to also comment on some key trends and lessons to take note of as without question we can all learn from our past experiences.
It’s been quite a journey for us at Property Investor News as we have collectively ridden and reported on the ups and downs of some seismic historic events. These have had a serious impact on the global economy and for related property markets over that period. We launched the publication in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the USA and then subsequently reported on how investing prospects were affected by the Great Financial Crash in 2008, Brexit, the Covid pandemic and of late its inflationary consequences.
Throughout that period our focus has been to help guide your investing decisions by providing factual and evidence based content without undue bias while also remaining to present in the main a positive stance for on-going investment in property. Our collective belief is that while fortunes can be made through being in the right place at the right time with the right strategy – property is not about ‘get-rich-quick’.
In the upcoming months we will be revisiting some of our most highly valued historic investor interviewees to find out just what these individual investors, landlords and developers have been doing of late in our upcoming podcast series at the PINCast.co.uk
Inevitably a relatively small number of those individuals that we have interviewed over the last 22 years have not lasted the course, in the main because they were from my personal observation, overly ambitious at the wrong time and seemingly ‘spun too many plates’.
I keep hearing comments to the effect that ‘Buy-to-Let investing is finished which I personally think is nonsense. Of course, it is tougher now than in 2002 but many of our regular subscribers I am aware still have faith in the longer term outlook for residential property investment, Regulatory barriers were brought in after the financial market excesses prior to the Crash in 2008, as governments did not want to repeat again the bailing out major banks. What is tougher and clearly has affected sentiment around buy-to-let for owning properties as individuals, is of course, the taxation regime, primarily the result of the measures brought in by George Osborne in 2016-17.
