Do you know what the 6 month rule is?The 6 month rule was like a spanner being
thrown in the spokes of the big wheel of property trading.
It effectively killed the game.The 6 month rule is:
The vendor must have
owned the property for at least 6 months if the buyer was buying the property
with a mortgage.
Now considering 98%+ properties are bought with a mortgage
it kind of killed the return on capital numbers quite a bit.No longer could a property trader buy and
then sell on in a couple of months.The trader
now needs to wait at least 6 months before he or she can sell.
This also prevented instant remortgages where a trader or
investor would buy a property for cash and remortgage the very next day at a
higher value and get all their money back if not more.
Who introduced all this?The CML.Solicitors have to
answer questions in accordance with the CML.Solicitors are bound by their strict code of conduct to answer questions
without misleading anyone party to the transaction.
BREAKING NEWS:There
is a way round the 6 month rule.It
involves utilising exclusions within the CML handbook and about 6 lots of
solicitors fees!All in all it costs
around £3,000 to get round the 6 month rule.
Now if you can buy a property for £90,000 and sell it on for
£120,000 then the figures make sense.You
would make a gross profit of £27,000 without having to wait 6 months where you
would have had to pay interest for 6 months, assume the risk of the property
for 6 months and be liable for council tax once you had used up all your 6
month exemption.
Your capital is freed up to make another £27,000 4 months
earlier so your money is put to work a lot more harder.
Now if you want to know more about this 6 month rule and how
you can find undervalued properties to sell on the CONTACT US and we will
enlighten you!