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The Property Podcast

ASK424: Should I pay this arrangement fee? PLUS: Is it time for a hands-off strategy?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Rob & Rob are back with more listener questions!   (0:45) Ross is curious about the best way to pay his arrangement fees. Should he use his own cash to cover the fees upfront or add them to his mortgage? Aware that the latter option will incur interest charges over time but may potentially benefit from inflation, he turns to Rob & Rob for their advice.  (3:55) Hollie's original game plan involved flipping properties in her local area of Portsmouth, utilising her partner's building expertise for renovations. However, she's having second thoughts and wonders whether a hands-off strategy in a property hotspot could offer better capital growth. Seeking guidance, she turns to the guys for their thoughts on her potential shift in direction.  Enjoy the show?  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us!  Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse  Send us your question by calling us on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply) or click here to leave a recording via your computer instead.  Find out more about Property Hub Invest  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.

0:06.9

Welcome to Ask Rob and Rob. It's another week of answering your property questions.

0:11.2

It works pretty well as long as you send your questions in. So if you do

0:14.8

have something on your mind and you'd love to know an answer, the way to get it across to us and to get on the show

0:19.2

is so easy. It certainly is. It's all in one safe place and that is the Property Hub website.

0:25.2

Go to Property Hub.net.

0:26.8

forward slash ask and you can get your question in there. There's a few ways you can do it and

0:31.2

you can even get your question to appear in the Sunday times as well.

0:34.4

Now that's very exciting, but what is more exciting is that we have a question to answer right here right now.

0:39.6

And that first question is in from Ross.

0:43.0

Hi Rob and Rob, Ross here.

0:45.0

Thanks for all the great content that you're putting out there.

0:48.0

It's really, really helpful in terms of assisting and negotiating the maze that is the property investment sphere.

0:55.0

So please keep up the good content.

0:57.0

I've got a quick question really about arrangement fees.

1:00.0

They're obviously fairly significant at the minute.

1:02.0

And I was wondering whether you would advise paying

1:05.0

the arrangement fee upfront out of my own cash

1:08.4

or putting it on top of the mortgage.

1:10.9

So they're, thereby paying a fair bit of interest on it over time but also

1:15.9

potentially benefiting from that figure reducing in in value over time through the

1:21.1

powers of inflation.

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