Property Investment

How data is benefiting the buy-to-let market

Rather than owning property directly, with Mail Finance’s trusted partner, Bricklane, you can earn returns by investing in diversified property portfolios known as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

Using Compass, its in-house data-analytics platform, Bricklane can rapidly screen thousands of property listings to identify the top fraction of properties in its target areas and price them accurately at scale. From this selection, Bricklane’s property team constructs portfolios with strong potential for returns through rental income and capital growth, providing investors with what it believes to be the best investment opportunities. By analysing, bidding and buying at scale, Bricklane is constantly adding more data to its knowledge base. This increases the speed and accuracy of its process and equips it with an understanding of the UK property market that most individual investors would lack the resources to replicate.

Property portfolios assembled by industry experts

Bricklane runs two diversified property portfolios that investors can choose from:

The London fund contains properties in the capital, while the Regional Capitals

fund includes properties in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. You can invest in either fund or split your investment 50:50 between the two. Bricklane’s portfolios are assembled and managed by a team of industry experts with more than 100 years of combined experience. Over their careers, members of the team have managed and advised on tens of billions of pounds worth of residential property transactions.

Invest your ISA in property

With an ISA (Type: Stocks and Shares), you can invest up to £20,000 in Bricklane’s funds and pay no tax on property income and gains, no matter how large your investment may become. Your 2019/20 allowance lasts until April 5, 2020 so if you’re thinking of investing, you’ll need to move quickly. As an added bonus, Mail Finance readers can earn from £100 to £1,250 when making an initial transaction of £5,000 or more.** If you’re interested in learning more about investing with Bricklane, you can visit bricklane. com or contact their UK-based customer support team on 0203 1111 432 9:30am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday. As with all investing, your capital is at risk. You may not be able to sell your investment within a reasonable timeframe. Bricklane doesn’t give advice and you should seek independent advice before investing. Please see further risks in the Important Information box.