It's a great investment, right?

All too often are those words spoken... "it's a great investment, right?" "Well, buying a new build is hardly going to give you the best rental return, let alone capital appreciation..." "But it will go up eventually right?" That is true... property, most of the time, appreciates if you give it long enough. Time to revisit a nifty article I wrote a while back ( High Yield HMOs vs Low Yield New Build ) to dig up a graph that I made to demonstrate this exact point. The point being that you pay for the "shiny factor" in the new build, or newly refurbished home. Now there could of course be a multitude of reasons to buy a new build or newly developed property. Time is the primary one of course. Those with busy jobs cannot afford to invest the time into sourcing new bathrooms, flooring, paint, dealing with tradesmen and so forth, that much is true. Money is another. In the case of first time buyers using the help-to