scrumpyjack wrote:It all really screams don't touch with a bargepole. Personally I think you would be far better advised to buy some Persimmon shares where the yield is not far short of 8% (but that is not investment advice!)
You just verbalised what I was thinking! Like they say about the gold rush, making picks and shovels made more reliable money than actually digging for gold.
So now the OP has been answered, may I drag the thread off at a tangent? How does one buy an individual share such as a house builder? I'm as naïve about this as the OP was about direct property investment. I have an ISA account with Vanguard with none of this year's ISA allowance used yet. Can I use that?