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• Property experts have reported an explosion of interest in the French buy-to-let market as British investors discover the benefits of leaseback holiday properties with nearly 20% tax savings.
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British company invests $200mn in Turkish developments
• Leading London based firm Financial Dimensions, experts in real estate and project development, have committed to invest 200 million dollars in property developments in Turkey over the next years.
Changes in French law affect property renovations
• Recent changes in French property law may affect overseas property buyers.
Spain's property market starts to crumble
• The property boom in Spain that has lasted for a decade has now come to an end.
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• Off plan property investment is a growing industry in Europe, with off plan sales reaching a record high in France last year.
 
 
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Summary
Edison Ford Investment Property traces its roots back to 1986 when Mike Ford started his Independent Financial Planning business in Yate near Bristol. In 1992, John Moon formed Edison Associates, (also a financial planning business) the two companies merging in 2000 to form Edison Ford.

With John and Mike both having a strong interest in property with personal portfolios dating back to the mid eighties, it was only natural for Edison Ford to become strongly associated with providing expert property advice to both new and existing clients.

The group now boasts its own Estate Agency, the original IFA practice, General Insurance Brokers as well as the latest addition to the group, Edison Ford Investment Property. The group also has associated links with Team edison, which specialises in motor sport PR and race car preparation and Team edison Friesians, importers of the beautiful Dutch Friesian horses.

 
Who is Edison Ford?
Our background and philosophy

Edison Ford Investment Property (EFIP) is a UK based overseas investment property specialist, offering unbiased and impartial advice on buying property in both the UK and overseas. Our background is in financial advice, an area in which our sister company, Edison Ford IFAs has been operating since 1992. EFIP was established in recognition of the tremendous opportunities available to our clients, from both the UK and overseas property markets.

EFIP’s directors and most of its staff personally invest and believe in the properties they market. They have spent their own time investigating and researching to find the very best choice of locations and properties. Only developers who meet our strict standards of service, build quality, financial strength and investment potential are considered.

This is one of the reasons you will find only a small selection of properties on offer from us at any one time, unlike other agents who may bombard you with hundreds of options, on most of which they will have very little knowledge.

We feel it is vitally important to know as much about you and your needs as we can. Our job is to find the right property to meet your needs. If we don’t have that property at the moment, we will tell you, not try to sell you something unsuitable.

None of our staff come from a sales background. They are trained as consultants, not sales people. Once you have dealt with us, whether you have become a client or not, our aim is to ensure you will feel comfortable contacting us for any of your financial or property requirements, at any time.


Our added value

As if our experience and knowledge was not enough, Edison Ford is determined those who buy through us gain much more than they ever would by dealing through another agent, going to a developer direct or ‘doing it themselves’.

Our reputation and negotiation skills allow us to offer you a number of unique benefits, which we know are not available anywhere else. Some of these are:
  • Independent UK based solicitors specialising in overseas property
  • Financing advice from Edison Ford IFAs
  • Genuine discounts off brochure prices
  • Other benefits such as free air-conditioning
  • Advice & support throughout the purchase process
  • Personal contacts in the areas we recommend
  • Resale and letting facilities in the UK and overseas

Protecting your money

Buying property overseas is full of potential pitfalls and traps. To provide you with as much protection as possible, Edison Ford recommends you utilise either an independent UK based solicitor, or a recommended solicitor in the Country of purchase, to handle every aspect of your property. In either case, Edison Ford will only recommend a legal team to you, which has proven its integrity and service are exceptional.

Many developers and agents will try to persuade you to use the developer’s own solicitor, even using this as a sales angle by proclaiming ‘free legal fees’ or similar. This is very significant, as the odds when using the developers own solicitors are stacked way against you.

Some of the contracts we have seen from developers are simply laughable and yet hundreds and probably thousands of normally sensible people entrust substantial sums of their own money to a system, which is at best entirely biased against them. At worst, you could end up buying something which is illegally built, non existent or worthless.

Whilst there can never be a 100% guarantee, utilising the services of our recommended solicitors, will ensure you have someone accepting the responsibility to protect your interests, rather than the developers.


Finding the money

Foreign mortgages for UK residents are available in many countries, although the type of products, rates and flexibility will depend on the local mortgage market. Edison Ford’s experience of using overseas mortgages to purchase property, has allowed us to confidently offer this tested resource to those clients who will benefit.

Given the nuances of borrowing money overseas and the sometimes restricted products, many of our clients release capital from existing property to finance their overseas purchases. This is an area in which our sister company Edison Ford IFAs, has a great deal of experience. As part of the fact find service, we will establish your exact situation, provide you a summary of where you stand and make some recommendations on how best to raise the finance. Edison Ford IFAs has access to every lender and scheme on the market and with its combination of state of the art computer search facilities and hands on knowledge, can easily find you the best deal to suit your circumstances.

If you have the outright ‘cash’, then you may not need our advice, though we could still help you by recommending the most cost and tax effective way of using your money.


Sending the money

Unlike many agents and developers who cannot get you to part with your money quickly enough, we will advise you not to make any payments until all our enquiries and those made by the solicitor are satisfactory. In some cases, we have had clients holding on to their deposits for many months, pending satisfactory completion of documentation. Had they gone direct to the developer, they would have parted with their money within two weeks, losing all their protection and bargaining power.

Along the way

If you are purchasing a property Off-Plan, you probably won’t be able to visit your property to keep an eye on its progress as its being built. Thankfully, in many locations EFIP makes regular trips to see how things are progressing and will report back to you with photos and descriptions as often as possible.


Owning the property

If you are looking to purchase an exceptional property, be it for holiday use or Investment, we believe with our experience and commitment to our clients we can find you the perfect property, support you, guide you, ensuring your property adventure starts with Edison Ford Investment property.

John Moon
Managing director
 
Some of our team

John Moon, M.D.

John has overall responsibility for the running of EFIP. John's background is in banking, having been a commercial loans underwriter for Nat West, which he joined back in 1973, going on to run a small finance company in 1988 where he developed the roots of Edison Associates.

Having purchased his first investment property in the early eighties, John's interest in property has continued to grow, his enthusiasm for bricks and mortar enabling him to give valuable advice and assistance to his loyal clients in the Bath area, a number of whom have become property millionaires with John's help.

Alongside his financial career, John is an accomplished journalist and commentator in the motor sport world, having much radio experience and a number of TV appearances to his credit. John's separate business, Team Edison, has looked after the PR activities of the Castle Combe Circuit since 1988.

One of John's significant roles for EFIP is speaking at seminars and training sessions for introducers on various aspects of property investment and financing.

Mike Ford, Director

Although Mike started his working life with engineering in mind, he soon realised the world of finance was his true vocation. After a highly successful career with the CIS, where he gained much experience and spells working as a financial consultant, Mike set up his own practice in 1986.

This grew to the extent that Mike was able to step back from its day to day running in 2000, having completed the merger with Edison Associates. Mike's main responsibilities became those of business development, creating Edison Ford Estate Agents and Property Management and working as joint MD of EFIP, as well as overseeing the growth of Edison Ford General Insurance Brokers.

Like John, Mike also has a passion for property and acts as a business consultant to a select number of clients for whom he is able to provide high level advice and negotiating skills in complex business areas and transactions.

Mike's interests, apart from his two young children, include golf and horse racing.


Richard Greenhalf, Office Manager
Fresh from a first class honours degree in Geography, Richard was attracted to Edison Ford by the huge potential of guaranteed leaseback, though since joining the group in 2004, he has become a specialist in French, Leaseback and Turkish property. With a very detailed knowledge on both how and what to purchase in these markets, Richard has saved many people thousands by advising on what to buy and the best structure for their purchases.

Having also been involved with the administration of IFA business, Richard is now busy studying for his CeMap mortgage qualification and will soon be able to advise clients on both UK and overseas mortgage products, like his directors John and Mike.

Richard's main interest, apart from his young family, is motorsport. Like his MD John, he is a real car enthusiast, spending much of his free time developing and using his home-built track car.

Below is a photograph of some of our team, together, outside our head office in Bath.



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