HSBC BUY-TO-LET GUIDE TO THE UK MARKET
2016-03-27
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Hong Kong properties are among the most expensive in the world. While a 188-square-feet parking space costs HK$5.18M (£518,000 as of 20 June 2017) here, with the same amount of money, you could buy three or four reasonable size city centre properties in the United Kingdom.
Higher rental values were recorded in almost every region of the UK, rose by an average of 2.1% in September. The average monthly rental of new tenancy in September was £927 compared to £908 in the same month of last year. Compounded by the fact, the demand for rental properties will remain high.
Amid the uncertainty of Brexit and increasing tax burdens for landlords, 2018 may be the year for rental investors to branch out beyond the obvious in the North of England.
Under the new British government plan – which will be put in place when Beijing formally enacts the law – every one of the 3 million Hongkongers who qualify for a British National (Overseas) passport and their dependents could relocate to the United Kingdom to stay and work or study for extendable periods of 12 months, creating a path to citizenship.
Migrants coming to the UK will need to have a job paying at least £25,600, qualifications and speak English under a new points-based post-Brexit immigration system. Low-skilled immigration will be made impossible. EU migrants' chances of getting a work visa will be the same as from elsewhere.