About the desk
We keep a ledger on Coniston Road.
Orbitalevault is an editorial desk in Tottenham. We publish notes on how UK residential property does, and does not, pay for itself. The address is 49 Coniston Rd, London N17 0EX, UK.
What the desk is
The name is a habit. Cash from rent should sit where you can see it, not orbit a spreadsheet as a yield percentage. We write in British English, about England first, and we say when Scotland or Wales uses a different tax. Notes are dated. When a band changes, the page should change with it.
A note starts as a ledger, not as a headline. Two people read the arithmetic before it is published: one for the sums, one for the sentences that might be mistaken for advice. Corrections go to [email protected]. If a figure is wrong, we would rather fix the page than defend the tone.
What the desk is not
We are not estate agents. We are not mortgage brokers. We are not tax advisers, solicitors, or financial advisers, and nothing on this site is a personal recommendation to buy, sell, let, borrow, or incorporate. We are not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. Reading a note does not make you a client.
We do not take payment to rank a development, a lender, or a course. If that ever changes, the page will say so beside the words, not in a footer nobody opens. The illustrations use invented prices so they can be fully shown. They are not case studies of clients, because we do not take clients in that sense.
01
Name the line
Every pound on a published ledger has a label: void weeks, rate, service charge, works. If we cannot say what it is, it does not go in.
02
Show the stress
A base case without a worse case is an advertisement. The Leeds terrace keeps its place on the site because the stressed columns are more honest than the first one.
03
Stop before advice
We will show how Section 24 can leave a tax bill beside a thin year. We will not tell you whether a company, a spouse, or a sale is your answer.