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ii Open the Accessibility Interface (Can also be opened using the Alt+9 Key) FIND YOUR NEW HOME... Please enter a location Search Map Search Main menu Login | Register * Homes For Sale * Helping you Move * About Cala * Land & Planning * Social Value * Careers * The Cala Group * Legal & General Homes * Careers * Customer Service * Contact Us * * * * Open the Accessibility Interface © CALA Group 2023 * Homes For Sale * Helping you Move * About Cala * Land & Planning * Social Value * Careers Login | Register BUILDING A PROPERTY PORTFOLIO Whether you are new to buy to let or already an established landlord, a Cala home could be a valuable addition to your buy to let property portfolio. FIND YOUR NEW HOME... Please enter a location Search Map Search GROW YOUR PROPERTY PORTFOLIO WITH CALA Whether your focus is capital appreciation or rental income, building and maintaining your property portfolio takes time, commitment, and planning. There is no magic formula for selecting the right properties for your budget and needs, but careful research – particularly for your first buy to let home – will make a big difference to your chance of success. HOW TO START A PROPERTY PORTFOLIO If you are new to buy to let investing, we suggest that you seek independent financial advice before you start a property portfolio. Many new property investors don’t consider all of the expenses, such as capital gains tax, tax on rental income, maintenance and extra Stamp Duty (England) or Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) into account. LOCATION The location of your properties is an important starting point. If you intend to manage your properties yourself, it makes sense to build a portfolio that is close to your own home. Those with larger scale portfolios who are willing to engage a management company can decrease the risk of local house price fluctuations by spreading their portfolio over more than one location. Wherever you choose to buy, research the area thoroughly. Look at the rental demand and current rental yields, and make sure that you are considering the needs of the type of renters that you are targeting. For example, if you are hoping to rent out your property to families, a good school catchment will be a big draw. CONDITION Some advice about how to start a property portfolio will tell you that properties in a poor decorative state can be savvy investments. This is true, as long as you have the time and experience to commit to renovations and repairs to make the home attractive to renters. If you do decide to take the route of a fixer-upper, make sure that you have the property thoroughly surveyed. Set aside extra cash to cover the mortgage in case your renovations take longer than expected or you discover unexpected repairs. A newer home will have been built to more stringent building standards, so buying more modern homes for your portfolio can be a way to manage the risk of high maintenance and repair bills. Investing in new-build homes can be an attractive option. Our homes come with a 10-year NHBC Buildmark policy for extra peace of mind. Low maintenance and desirable rental homes WHEN YOU’RE READY TO BUILD YOUR PROPERTY PORTFOLIO, CALA CAN HELP. Cala has a range of services, information and purchase schemes that are popular to investors. If you are looking for a property with a guaranteed yield, you should have a look at the show homes that we are currently offering through our show home sale and leaseback scheme. If you are looking for a property that can be purchased quickly and offer an immediate home for your renter our range of ‘Ready for You’ homes will fit the bill. SHOWHOME SALES AND LEASEBACK Purchase one of our stunning showhomes or sales centres, with a guaranteed return for an initial period whilst the property is leased back to Cala. We'll even maintain it for the duration. Showhome Sale and Leaseback READY FOR YOU Completed homes that are just waiting for you to find a renter. You could have one of our homes in your portfolio in as little as four weeks. Ready for You MORTGAGE PAY Take a few moments to relax without worrying about mortgage repayments. Mortgage Pay is our welcome gift to you, the chance to take a break from your monthly mortgage outgoings. Mortgage Pay STAMP DUTY OR LBTT ADVICE Find out about the extra Stamp Duty (England) or Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) you will pay on a buy-to-let home. Understanding Stamp Duty WHY BUY NEW There’s nothing quite like moving into a brand-new home. From newly-installed kitchens and bathrooms to the peace of mind of knowing that your property is safe, energy efficient and low maintenance. What’s more, you’re buying a complete blank canvas on which to stamp your own individual style. Why buying new makes sense Arrow up * The Cala Group * Legal & General Homes * Careers * Customer Service * Contact Us -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sitemap * Privacy * Cookie Policy * Website Terms & Conditions * Offers & Incentives T&Cs * Disclaimer * Modern Slavery Statement * Our Facebook page * Our Pinterest page * Our Instagram feed * Our YouTube channel © CALA Group 2023 CALA Group (Holdings) Limited. Registered office: CALA House, 54 The Causeway, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 3AX. Registered in England and Wales. No. 08428265 CALA Homes English Accessibility Adjustments Reset Settings Statement Hide Interface Choose the right accessibility profile for you OFF ON Seizure Safe Profile Clear flashes & reduces color This profile enables epileptic and seizure prone users to browse safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations. OFF ON Vision Impaired Profile Enhances website's visuals This profile adjusts the website, so that it is accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others. OFF ON ADHD Friendly Profile More focus & fewer distractions This profile significantly reduces distractions, to help people with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements of the website more easily. OFF ON Cognitive Disability Profile Assists with reading & focusing This profile provides various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily. OFF ON Keyboard Navigation (Motor) Use website with the keyboard This profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements. Note: This profile prompts automatically for keyboard users. OFF ON Blind Users (Screen Reader) Optimize website for screen-readers This profile adjusts the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software that is installed on the blind user’s computer and smartphone, and websites should ensure compatibility with it. 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Content Adjustments Content Scaling Default Readable Font Highlight Titles Highlight Links Text Magnifier Adjust Font Sizing Default Align Center Adjust Line Height Default Align Left Adjust Letter Spacing Default Align Right Color Adjustments Dark Contrast Light Contrast High Contrast High Saturation Adjust Text Colors Cancel Monochrome Adjust Title Colors Cancel Low Saturation Adjust Background Colors Cancel Orientation Adjustments Mute Sounds Hide Images Read Mode Reading Guide Useful Links Select an option Home Header Footer Main Content Stop Animations Reading Mask Highlight Hover Highlight Focus Big Black Cursor Big White Cursor HIDDEN_ADJUSTMENTS Keyboard Navigation Accessible Mode Screen Reader Adjustments Read Mode Web Accessibility By Learn More Choose the Interface Language English Español Deutsch Português Français Italiano עברית 繁體中文 Pусский عربى عربى Nederlands 繁體中文 日本語 Polski Türk Accessibility StatementCompliance status We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability. To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more. This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs. Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments. If you wish to contact the website’s owner please use the website's form Screen-reader and keyboard navigation Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements: 1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts embedded within the image using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website. These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. 2. Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key. Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at any time by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, not allowing the focus to drift outside. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements. Disability profiles supported on our website * Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations. * Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others. * Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile provides various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements more easily. * ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily. * Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile adjusts the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is installed on the blind user’s computer, and this site is compatible with it. * Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements. Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments 1. Font adjustments – users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more. 2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different coloring options. 3. Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions. 4. Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize essential elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only. 5. Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly. 6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others. 7. Additional functions – we allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions. Assistive technology and browser compatibility We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and MAC users. Notes, comments, and feedback Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating, improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility following technological advancements. If you wish to contact the website’s owner, please use the website's form Hide Accessibility Interface? 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