Ajay Ahuja Blog Post on Buying New Flats and The Unemployed

Would I buy city centre new build flats?

YES!

I would buy anything if the price is right.  People talk of a glut of city centre apartments and there are, however the glut is caused due to:

  1. Developers not selling
  2. Developers giving flats to letting agents to rent
  3. Letting agents restricted to renting to young professionals on good money
  4. Not enough young professionals

If the developer can hold out then the developer must have big cash reserves.  When the cash reserves run out the Receivers come in!

So what do the receivers do?  They try and sell them but get few takers because the finance available is quite frankly rubbish as so many lenders have got burnt.

So they do exactly what the developers do and hold out for the young professionals via the letting agents.  No young professionals apply.

Thus you have the glut.  The mass of new build apartments owned by developers, and receivers with no one ever wanting to go to the dark side.  The dark side being:

THE UNEMPLOYED

The unemployed would love to live in these flats.  It is near all the amenities and the public transport hubs like bus stations and train stations.

These apartments would become very tempting to us professional landlords once they start yielding 12%+.  I would have no problem putting a respectable DSS tenant in to a 3 bed penthouse apartment if the numbers stacked!

The government might end up with the ghettos they tried to avoid.  Never mind.

So if you are a developer or receiver and want to sell drop your prices please as me and my friends want to go on a buying spree!