Looking for an investment flat in Cippenham, Slough - Berkshire?

 

Just gone on the market. An opportunity to buy a second floor apartment close to A4 and excellent connections to M4  by car and rail connections to London and the west at Burnham.

This second floor apartment with the benefit of partly boarded attic has been let since 2010. It is always a popular area with people wanting to rent and home owners as well.

The block management agents ensure that the communal staircases areas, gardens and parking areas are very well maintained. 

The block that this property is situated in only has six flats - 2 per floor.

It has been completely redecorated in March 2021.

Brief details: Wood laminate flooring in the hall, living room and bedroom. Tiled flooring in the bathroom and kitchen. Double glazed.

Entry phone - Hall with trap door with ladder to partly boarded attic.

Double bedroom  - Lounge / Dining Room - Bathroom with bath & shower - Kitchen

Fixtures and fittings: The property is currently equipped with an electric oven, washer / dryer, dishwasher - wood laminate blinds, bedroom and living room and these can be included by arrangement.

This would be ideal for a Buy-to-let investor / owner occupier  buyer

Car parking - This is not allocated and there is plenty of space as the Burnham Gate / Walpole Road development was very well thought out when it was designed with the benefit of excellent parking facilities 

For more information visit the sales agents page here

Furnished 1 bed flat opposite High Wycombe hospital to rent

Situated within a minute or two's walk of Wycombe Hospital and the BMI Shelburne Hospital in Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe HP11 2HZ is this ground floor one bedroom apartment.

It is located in an idea place for anyone working at Wycombe Hospital, or the BMI Shelburne Hospital as it is immediately across the road so you can walk to work in a minute or two!

As the flat is also next to BNU (Bucks New University), there is not much further to walk to as well. Anyone living there is only a few minutes walk away from High Wycombe town centre and the London Marylebone / Birmingham railway station. There is one covered car parking space.

The A40 is only a few metres away and M40 London / Birmingham a very short drive away at the Handy Cross roundabout. There is a great choice of apartments to rent in High Wycombe, however this one must be one of the best for local communication, especially if you don't want to use a car.

Those are the very accessible communications from this property, but what else does it offer?

Ground floor, however because of the covered parking it is really the first floor although you walk into the building on the ground floor.

Laminate wood flooring in the double bedroom, living room and hall. Tiled flooring in the bathroom and kitchen.

The kitchen is very large for a one bedroom flat and has a breakfast bar, oven, hob, microwave, washer / dryer (new in summer of 2019), fridge and freezer.

The flat will be re-decorated in early January and is available from the second week of January. Suitable for one person or couple. Guide rental price £795 pcm + usual Council Tax, water charges, electricity.

For more information contact the local agents: The JNP Partnership  01494 520555
lettings@jnp.co.uk and ask for details about Kingfisher Court, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe.

Please note: This information has not been posted by anyone from The JNP Partnership, but buy a representative of the landlord company

Unfurnished one bedroom apartment available opposite hospital in High Wycombe

A first floor one bedroom flat opposite High Wycombe  Hospital and next to the BNU University complex is now available to rent on an unfurnished basis.

It is one of the large flats in this development and has recently been completely redecorated and has new light coloured laminate flooring. 

The flat has double glazing and offers the following:
Entrance hall, bathroom with shower, spacious double bedroom with fitted wardrobe. Living room with access to satellite TV system (You don't need a dish, but do need to subscribe to SKY), there is also a normal Freeview TV aerial system.

The bedroom and living room look out on the gardens belonging to the development and not the road. 

There is a very spacious modern kitchen with washer/dryer, microwave, built in electric hob and oven, breakfast bar and stools, fridge and freezer.

There is covered car parking in a gated area for ONE car. If occupiers have more than ONE car, any additional vehicles have to be parked in the street.

Heating and hot water is electric. 
It is a very short walk to the town centre, mainline railway to London Marylebone  and plenty of shops, restaurants and pubs and of course a few steps away from Wycombe Hospital and BNU University.

Great value let at £750 per calendar month - Available early November 19   

JNP Letting agents in High Wycombe are marketing this property and find out more / arrange a viewing at    https://www.jnp.co.uk/property/flat-to-rent-kingfisher-court-queen-alexandra-road-high-wycombe-hp11-id-1100023106  

Questor Insurance discounts continue for 2019 at jml Insurance sites

 

jml Property Services who run the insurance4carrrental.com and jml insurance marketing sites are very pleased to announce once again that the arrangement with Questor Insurance to offer discounted car, van, minibus and motorhome  hire excess insurance has been extended till the end of 2019. This represents a 10 per cent discount on many Questor insurance products including travel insurance.

Questor Insurance has been selling car hire excess insurance for many  years and also sells motorhome hire excess insurance and van hire excess insurance and minibus hire excess waiver insurance which are promoted on the jml Insurance group's sites.

 

To find out more and take advantage of this discount go to http://www.insurance4carrental.com/questor.htm#Discount

 

 

Speen Helping Hospices Charity Car Boot Sale Sunday 9th September 18

We are only a couple of days away from Speen, Buckinghamshire (near High Wycombe / Princes Risborough) first charity car boot sale.

We hope the weather stays dry on Sunday morning. jml Insurance have been sponsoring four of the event boards around the area, with estate agents Michael Graham sponsoring other ones.

The Speen Helping Hospices was founded in 2001 with the objective of raising funds for local hospices. Events are organised at different times of the year and to date the group has raised nearly £72,000.

The four hospices are: Rennie Grove Hospice,
Florence Nightingale House, The South Bucks Day Hospices and Helen and Douglas House.

Sunday's event on the 9th September takes place on  the Speen Village Playing Fields, Hampden Road, Speen, Bucks HP27 0RU.

Sellers - Set up time from 8am and Cars are £15 and small vans (no large vans) £18

Buyers - 10am to 1.30pm and admission is £1 with children under 12 going free.

Apart from buying and selling there is a BBQ, homemade cakes and coffee and tea.

jml Insurance Services have been very pleased to help out and also have been involved with the insurance for this group via an insurance broker that they have worked with for many years.

More information about Speen Helping Hospices can be found at: http://www.speenbucks.org.uk/speen-groups/speen-helping-hospices/

More information about jml Insurance that acts as an advertising service for insurance companies offering, Travel, Overseas Property & Contents, UK Property & Contents, car, van, minibus, motorhome excess insurance, rental property insurance and a lot more at http://www.jml-insurance.co.uk/

We wish Speen Helping Hospices great success on Sunday

Now is the time to buy your Christmas & New Year Travel Insurance

You might already wrapped those presents for the festive season and not even gone out shopping  yet, but there is something that you should not leave to the last minute - Travel insurance and Car rental hire excess insurance.

Once you have started your holiday you can't take out travel insurance normally, so it is best to make arrangements early on.
A great way of saving money is to take an annual travel insurance policy and you can do the same with car hire excess insurance.

Quite often an annual car hire excess insurance policy will be a lot cheaper than paying for daily policies and of course far cheaper than having to buy one through one of those car hire companies that tries to make you buy one when you book your car hire or when you collect the vehicle.

These days people tend to take several breaks over the year and even a weekend away in Poland or Portugal should be covered so annual travel insurance does make sense and of course many people will soon be off on a skiing holiday as well.

Reasons why you should take out travel insurance:

Missed departure?

Lost your passport?

Personal money stolen?

Damaged your ski equipment?

Personal Accident?

Abandon your holiday before you leave the UK

Catastrophe — fire, flood, earthquake or storm

Medical Emergency — Hospital — Emergency Dental Treatment

Legal Advice

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At the jml Insurance website there are several insurance companies advertising their products including:

Worldwideinsure, Questor Insurance, Quotezone,
Annualtravelinsurance.com, Greatcover.com,  Multitrip.com,  Backpackertravelinsurance.com  and Protectmyholiday.com - this is a different type of travel insurance - "ProtectMyHoliday.com to protect your holiday - Financial Failure Travel Insurance from as little as £5 per person"

 

Find out more about Travel insurance products Here

 

Find out more about Car Hire Excess  / Van Hire Excess / Motorhome Hire Excess and Minibus Hire Excess insurance products Here 

 

So remember to make arrangements as soon as possible and wrap this up early.

 

 

 

   

Financial Failure Travel Insurance Cover - Protect My Holiday

In the current economic climate, being able to purchase financial failure protection is imperative.

 

 

Some Travel Insurers incorporate this as part of their overall policy wording, but in the main most don’t offer this cover.

 

It is important to remember that the civil aviation authorities ATOL scheme only applies if a flight plus another component part of the trip are part of the same booking. You can check if your trip is ATOL protected as you should receive a certificate which shows the name of the firm and their ATOL number. You can also check them on the ATOL register.

 

As most people make their travel arrangements independently, there is no government protection against the financial failure of Airlines or other end suppliers you are booking with. Imagine being on holiday, to find the airline you have booked with has failed and you have no means of repatriation other than to try and rebook a return ticket with an alternative flight provider.

 

The cost of a ticket in these circumstances can be up to three times more than the original ticket price. You could also find yourself in this position a few days before you are due to travel, and would then have to hastily try and find another provider, but again the cost will be far more than the original price paid.  You can purchase cover against this eventuality from a specialist Insurer offering stand-alone policies from as little as £5.00 per person travelling.

 

Please click on the following link for full details of this. Cover can be paid for online and the policy documents are then emailed back to you instantly.

 

Latest HomeLet Rental Index figures have just been released

HomeLet one of the major UK Landlord and Tenant rental insurance companies has just released the August Rental index.

According to their press release -

Rents across the UK continued to rise during August, with this year’s trend of modest inflation continuing, according to the August  Rental Index.

Tenants signing up to a new tenancy during August agreed to pay an average rent of £913 a month, a 3.1 per cent increase on the same month of 2015. 

The pace of rent rises, while sustainable, is moderating. The 3.1 per cent recorded in August is comparable to annual increases of between 3.5 and 3.8 per cent over the previous four months. By contrast, annual rental inflation was running at close to 6 per cent this time last year.

The August 2016 HomeLet Rental Index reveals that rents continue to rise in almost every area of the country, with 11 out of the 12 regions surveyed recording an increase over the year to the end of August. 

Nevertheless, HomeLet’s regional trend analysis suggests that rental inflation has been more variable in certain areas of the country than others. London and the South-East in particular saw a larger dip in the pace of rent rises during March and April this year, at a time when buy-to-let investors were purchasing properties in larger numbers ahead of higher stamp duty rates that came into force at the beginning of the 2016-17 tax year. View the full release here 

Looking for Landlord buildings - contents - legal insurance or Tenants contents insurance +? Find out more here 

Why an Uxbridge letting agent thinks the EU is good for Landlords in Uxbridge

 

Jeremy Wasden the owner of Belvoir Lettings in Uxbridge, Middlesex has posted the following on his website.

Why I think the EU is good for Landlords in Uxbridge

Going to wear my heart on my sleeve here and say that I think that the EU is good for local landlords, consequently good for me as a letting agent and also for the wider UK.
So why is that?

Economic Stability

Providing economic stability allowing companies to grow and invest.  I don't think europe is perfect and we are out performing the continental markets.  Like landlords thinking of a property purchase, business and investment thrives on certainties which the EU is set to deliver by comparison to unknown alternatives. 

Longer term I see unfettered access to the world's largest market as a key benefit of EU membership.  And our area has benefitted heaviliy from this.

Heathrow / European Head Offices

Hillingdon Borough is more likely to benefit from European trade being so close to one of our major ports, Heathrow. 

We also benefit from many local European Head Offices which provide many high quality jobs such as those found in and around Uxbridge, Heathrow and of couse Stockley Park.  Could we benefit from more of these in future?  I think this is likely with continued EU membership.

I accept however that Britain could trade successfully as an independent country.  We have some amazingly talented people in this country!
And are we going to be better off if we can attract high quality people to the UK?

Movement of People

Free movement of people brings demand from tenants for property.  Be they people working locally or commuting in to London.

This both works in helping to allow people to rent out their home as they go and work in Belgium for a few years for example or for tenants from Europe working in the UK wanting to rent property here.

If we left trade would not cease and we would form new trading partnerships but there would be uncertainty.

Legislation

I find that most of the legislation that causes consternation for Landlords is from Parliament.  Such as recentl changes to Section 21 notices and deposit protection legislation which originates in this Scepter'd Isle, as does changes in SDLT and taxation of mortgage interest.

The EU does not by any means have a monopoly on poor legislation.

If you as a landlord think the other way I would be happy to hear the counter argument.
Contact him here

Notes: We have received permission from the writer Jeremy Wasden  to re-publish this article here. His business is in Uxbridge where Boris Johnson the present Mayor of London is the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Boris Johnson  is currently very much involved with the leave the EU campaign.

Editor's Comment: This is a very interesting article. In my experience EU residents in the south Bucks / east Berks area have been excellent tenants. Apart from working in the community, by renting they are keeping the local buy to let market exceptionally active.

Regarding Jeremy's comments on rental legislation. It is easy for a landlord to blame it all on Brussels and the EU (or even Europe as many call it). We have very complex rental regulations in the UK these days and more ahead. Where do they come from? Parliament in Westminster, The Welsh Assembly, The Northern Ireland Assembly and the Scottish Parliament. 

If you look at rental legislation in other European countries and EU Member states, it is all individual to the Government of the particular country. They all make their own rental legislation.

One piece of legislation that is common is the efficiency of energy report. So it might be a Diagnostic de Performance Energétique - DPE in France, a Building Energy Rating - BER in Ireland or an Energy Performance Certificate - EPC in the UK.

SPEEN HELPING HOSPICES ANNUAL CHARITY CRAFT & FOOD FAIR

The Annual Speen Helping Hospices Annual Charity Craft & Food Fair event on Sunday 5^th July 2015.

It will be held on the Speen Playing Fields on Hampden Road, Speen, HP27 0RU (near High Wycombe and Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire) between 11 AM and 4 PM.

There will be a great selection of produce available. The Speen Helping Hospices organisation raises funds for four local hospice organisations – Florence Nightingale House, Helen & Douglas House, Rennie Grove Hospice Care and The South Bucks Day Hospice.

The summer craft and food fair is one of several activities organised by SHH throughout the year. On the 15^th May they hosted a very successful lunch at the well-known Speen Home of Rest for Horses.  Last December a Christmas market was held and over £3,077 raised.

Local Estate and Letting Agents The JNP Partnership are acting as board Sponsor for this event.

So if you are looking for a great selection of food and crafts come to Speen on the 5^th July and look out for the JNP / Fine and Country advertisement boards and set your Sat Nav to HP27 0RU.