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Co-Investing How-To Guide:
Co-investing is simply the process of buying property or land with one or more others.
Finding an investment partner to help you create a healthy and diverse property or land portfolio couldn't be simpler. Register FREE with us, search, chat, meet and decide to make sweet profit together. OK this is the abbreviated version, but you get the gist.
It does not matter whether you already have a mature property portfolio or you're a complete novice held back by lack of funds. Co-investing could transform your view of investing in the property market forever.
Reasons To Co-Invest
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Start Investing In Property: With the help of an investment partner (or two) you could afford to finance your first property and start what could be a very lucrative property investment hobby or career.
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Be A Profitable Good Samaritan: If you’re looking for ways to help your fellow man whilst keeping an eye on your profit margins you could invest with someone who’s looking to live in the property. In doing so you’ll help someone onto the property ladder whilst securing yourself a capital investment with the possibility of a rental income as well.
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Experienced Investors Extend Your Reach: Dip a toe into a new location or area. Share the risks and rewards of investing in the property market. Find an investment partner with a different mix of skills or knowledge to you and become a partnership to be reckoned with.
Start Investing In Property (Co-Investor + Co-Investor …)
Unless you’ve been on another planet for the last ten years you could not have missed the phenomena that property investment has become. Investing in property has grown to be a very lucrative hobby for some and a massively successful career for others. Everyone from housewives to city workers have jumped onto this band-wagon that shows no sign of slowing down and has made many many new millionaires in this country and around the world as the global property boom took hold.
As a property investor novice, the purchase of your first property will probably be one of the scariest things you’ll ever do. The financial, time and effort commitment it requires could reduce the strongest of men (or women) to a wobbly mess of jelly (not pretty). So if the closest you've ever come to investing in the property market is shouting at the mistakes those on TV make when they don't listen to the likes of Sarah or Phil & Kirsty, then you're an investor novice and co-investing could well be the answer to your property investment dreams.
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There’s safety in numbers. You can buy your first investment with one or more other co-investors.
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Share the costs. Investing with others means splitting the costs to make co-investing in property far more affordable and attainable for the novice investor.
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Feel the fear. The fear of the financial commitment, the "what if’s" of property investing, the time it takes to research the market. Use the two heads are better than one theory and feel the fear slip away. As a co-investor you’ll have others to lean on, learn from and share the responsibilities with.
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Profit, profit, profit. Some people invest in property for the love of bricks and mortar, but for most it’s the profit potential they’re after. The sooner you start co-investing the sooner you’ll make the transition from property investor novice to co-investor professional.
Be A Profitable Good Samaritan (Co-Investor + First Time Buyer)
It could not have escaped anyone’s notice that first time buyers are struggling to afford the first rung of the property ladder. The UK property boom has been very profitable for property investors, but an absolute disaster for first time buyers. Literally thousands every year are forced to continue renting as they could not dream of affording a place of their own.
Co-investing with a first time buyer (who will live in the property) is a way of helping someone onto the property ladder whilst acquiring a property asset for yourself. Split the costs of buying a property between you, search for the perfect investment/home, and when you buy it you will gain an investment and they will have bought their first home. Now you may decide to sit on the asset and simply take a slice of the capital appreciation once the property is sold, or you would be within your rights to negotiate a rental income from your first time buyer partner much like a mini version of the Government’s "part buy part rent" scheme called HomeBuy (used to be called Shared ownership). This is totally up to the two of you to negotiate between you, but this all needs to be decided at the outset and set out in a legal document called a "Deed of Trust" which sets out your rights and responsibilities in the partnership. You can see more about this on our Legal Essentials page along with the contact details of our solicitors if you would like to discuss this in more detail.
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Do something to help another human being. Enable someone else to afford to step up onto the property ladder.
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Share the costs. Once again as you are buying with someone else all the costs of buying and running a property investment can be split.
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Capital income or rental profit? Decide whether you are after one or both of these and negotiate it from the beginning. There’s no reason why being a Good Samaritan shouldn’t be profitable too.
Experienced Investors Extend Your Reach (Co-Investor + Co-Investor …)
If you've already got a property or few under your belt co-investing can still provide you with many advantages. Everyone has a location they know more about, or a level of investment that's their specialty (student accommodation in a University city, re-furbishing conversions, city pads for high flying business tenants), but co-investing could help you diversify or expand your business.
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Dip a toe into a new location or area of investment. Partnering with someone else can combine your expertise to profitable ends. You might be an investment expert, but someone else might have excellent local knowledge or essential contacts.
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Share the risk, split the rewards. Of course the obvious advantage of investing with others is that the costs are split, and the thing that drives you on is your share of the rewards. Teaming up with others can mean you'll have more funds to play with and become a formidable investment partnership.
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Give something back. By teaching the next generation of property investor you can help someone else succeed where you already have. If you’re a successful property investor then take on an apprentice.
SharedSpaces.co.uk
Back in 2005 we launched the UK’s first "co-buyer network". We now have thousands of co-buyers and co-investors from across the UK looking for others to buy property with. Any one of them could be your perfect property partner. Use the Co-Investor Search box at the left side or bottom of this page to select a location and see who’s out there, or go to the Co-Buying page to use the Co-Buyer Search box to find those looking to buy a property with someone else and live there. FREE Registration on our site means that you can search through all those we have registered, and when you are ready you can upgrade to Full Membership to contact as many of them as you like to find someone you click with.
Good luck in your search.
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