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The Property Podcast

ASK234: How can I beat the rental stress test? PLUS: Should I get a commercial valuation on a HMO?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Investing, Education, Business, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask Rob & Rob, the guys are giving advice on mortgage stress tests and discussing if it’s beneficial to have a commercial valuation on a HMO property. Our first caller this week is Tom who has a question on mortgage stress tests.  He’s got two mortgaged properties already and he’s done a pretty good job on running the numbers to try and work out his stress test figures. But now he’s wanting to release equity from the two properties and thinks this might now affect him meeting the stress test criteria.  So what does Rob B suggest? The second question this week comes in from Matt.  Matt’s question is around HMO finance, after looking at buying a property with his partner.  They’ve heard somewhere that they can get more of their money back out of the property, post renovation, if they have a commercial valuation done.  Is this something that they should be having done on a HMO? Tune in to find out.    Do you have a buy to let or property investment related question for Rob & Rob? You could feature on the next episode by giving us a call on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply).    Or if you prefer, click here to leave a recording via your computer instead. The next question on Ask Rob & Rob could be yours.  Have you joined us over on the Property Hub Forum yet? Our online community is friendly, informative, and the members are waiting to welcome you with open arms. So get yourself over and introduce yourself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Rob. And I'm Rob. And this is Ask Rob and Rob.

0:07.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ask Rob and Rob, the show where you give us your property questions

0:12.0

and we give you our property answers.

0:13.7

And we've done this over 200 times now so we should be good at it.

0:16.7

And you should by now remember how to get involved but just in case you don't here's a

0:20.3

quick reminder.

0:21.3

Yep just give us a call on 013, 808,00035.

0:25.0

That's 0138.08.00035.

0:27.0

Or you can go to Property Hub.

0:29.0

Dotnet slash Ask.

0:30.0

Either one of those methods will allow you to leave us a voicemail, you can re-record it if it doesn't

0:34.1

quite work out first time, and get your question over to us.

0:37.9

Just like our first caller today, Tom.

0:39.9

Hi Rob and Rob, my name's Tom.

0:42.0

I'm calling from Birmingham and a long-term

0:44.0

listener at the show and thank you for all the content that you put out there

0:47.6

it's absolutely fantastic. My question relates to mortgage stress tests. Now I've got two mortgage rental properties, both worth

0:57.6

around 135,000, and both with mortgages 82,82,000.

1:03.2

And the mortgage stress test on that

1:06.7

is 145% times 5.5%, which I work out

1:11.8

to be around 545 per month so I need to achieve rental at 545 per month which I do the

1:18.9

Rentis of 595 but in these two properties is equity with

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