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Your lender stresses a buy-to-let at a rate you never pay. What that test does, why your own test asks a different question, and how to read both.
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One refurbished property, two exits. What selling and refinancing each measure, why a single figure cannot compare them, and what tips the balance.
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Why there is no file to download, and what to build instead. The four columns a first buy-to-let model needs, and where that model stops being useful.
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What interest-only and capital repayment each do to your monthly cost, your cash flow and the balance left at the end, and which plan suits which method.
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The seven arithmetic mistakes that keep turning up in self-built buy-to-let models, each with the formula that fixes it and what they cost together.
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Work backwards from the lender's cover test to the rent you need, step by step, plus the margin worth keeping above that floor and what breaks the sum.
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Seven markets on the same denominator: purchase costs, financing, currency and management. What to compare first, and which market fits which strategy.
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What a Dutch rental costs above the asking price, how the wealth tax treats it, and whether the rent you plan to charge is legal under the points test.
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What a buy-to-let costs above the price, how the stamp duty surcharge works, and why the finance cost rules push landlords towards a limited company.
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How an Australian purchase is taxed: transfer duty, land tax and negative gearing, plus the rules a foreign buyer meets before making any offer at all.
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What you keep from Dubai rent once the transfer fee and the service charges are in. Where a non-Emirati may own, and how off-plan payment plans work.
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How a Spanish purchase is taxed: regional transfer tax, the reference value the tax office rates you on, and the exit tax on the land under your flat.
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Why the canton settles your tax bill before the property does: gains tax by holding period, transfer tax, and whether a non-resident may buy at all.
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How a US rental is taxed: property tax by county, depreciation as a deduction with no cash leaving, and the exchange that defers tax when you reinvest.
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