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- Property Market Recovery May Start Here - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2007 from Daniel KirbyFollowing the credit crunch and the interest rate increases over the last 16 months, the housing market has seen a significant slowdown. With Halifax revealing a 1.1 per cent house price fall for November on the back of smaller falls in September and October, the situation looked less than ...
Views: 759 - Rate Cut Answer Blowing In The Wind, Says Lomax - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe issue of interest rate cuts has been high on the agenda this month as the Bank of England's own inflation report hinted strongly at UK mortgage cuts next year. However, the minutes of the latest meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC) showed that the people making the decisions were ...
Views: 679 - Recovery - But How Soon? - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2008 from Daniel KirbyThe last week has, as usual, seen some mixed news about the property market. In between predictions of further falls in house prices have been forecasts of recovery. Mixed news from the Bank of England in its quarterly inflation report may only have added to the uncertainty some could be ...
Views: 748 - Relentless Rent Rise Roars On - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2007 from Daniel KirbyWith the end of the year drawing close, analysts will be able to look back on a 2007 of two distinct phrases. Up to July, the housing market continued to boom, talk of a housing market slowdown appeared as risible as it had turned out to be in 2006 and first-time buyers sought mortgages of ...
Views: 753 - Sensible Investors Will Succeed, Says Expert - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThose considering investing in the buy-to-let sector, or expanding their existing portfolios, may be forgiven for feeling slightly confused at much of what they have read of late about the industry. On the one hand, there have been negative stories of investors getting their fingers burnt and ...
Views: 651 - Sherry Good Prospects In Spain - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe buy-to-let market, whether in the UK or overseas, is in many respects a series of markets, for the kind of property investors choose to sink their capital into will depend on the potential customer base. Thus property which is not necessarily of tip-top quality but is close to a university ...
Views: 908 - Short-term Holiday Letting Proving Popular - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2007 from Daniel KirbyA growing number of people appear to be turning away from the usual package holidays and traditional hotels when they travel abroad in favour of renting a holiday home for the duration of their stay overseas - creating new opportunities for those looking to invest in foreign property ...
Views: 633 - Slow And Steady Wins The Race? - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2007 from Daniel KirbyIts official: the hare that was the UK housing market has become a tortoise. That the UK Property housing market has been slowing down in the last few months is well known as survey after survey shows lower house price rises, but figures out today suggest it has finally gone into its shell. ...
Views: 663 - Spain 'to stand the test of time' - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Daniel KirbyAmid all the speculation about the future prospects for the Spanish property market after the slowdown in the past year following the boom, or the recent threat by the Spanish government to demolish illegally-built homes on the coast, some might ask if a more long-term perspective is the best ...
Views: 699 - Squaring The Circle On House-buying And Rents - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThose who seek to analyse the fortunes of the UK property market from the point of view of buy-to-let lenders may possibly wonder how a downturn in the residential market can coincide with an increase in rents. After all, the boom in buy-to-let in recent years has occurred at exactly the same ...
Views: 722 - Swiss Ski Property On A Roll - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2008 from Daniel KirbyWhile the lightening afternoon skies may make many investors think ahead towards summer and dream of places with sun kissed-beaches, many have not forgotten that it is still, despite the floral evidence to the contrary in Britain, winter. Up on high Alpine slopes, of course, the situation is a ...
Views: 953 - Tax the way to do it - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from Daniel KirbyInheritance Tax (IHT) has been a big issue in Britain recently, with newspaper campaigns for its abolition, a pledge to raise the threshold to £1 million by the Conservatives and an immediate doubling of the threshold for couples to £600,000 in response by the Labour government in the ...
Views: 744 - The best prospects in Scotland - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2007 from Daniel KirbyIn its recent prediction that suggested the UK as a whole would experience zero house price growth, Nationwide said that Scotland property would fare better than the rest of the UK, with four per cent growth in 2008, a slowdown but certainly not a juddering halt. The explanation for this ...
Views: 926 - The Lifestyle's The Thing - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2007 from Daniel KirbyEvery buy-to-let investor looking for property overseas has to work out first what market they are aiming to serve. Some will look for property geared up to short family holidays, others to houses that will function well as residences for longer parts of the year. Nearby facilities will play a ...
Views: 688 - Time For The Speculation To End - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe old saying "speculate to accumulate" may ring true - but in more than one way when it comes to the buy-to-let market. Accumulating failure appears to be the way for some in the buy-to-let market as the nature of the industry and the state of the housing scene tilts the advantages all towards ...
Views: 797 - Top Of The Scots - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2007 from Daniel KirbyIt's now widely accepted that the UK housing market has all but ground to a halt. Some believe this is temporary, pessimists believe it will be the beginning of a downward spiral, while others suggest Britain is simply due a fallow period to let things settle down and get back into kilter ...
Views: 820 - Watch For Oversaturation, Warns BSA - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2007 from Daniel KirbyWith the future of the UK property market, both residential and buy-to-let, subject to so much uncertainty and speculation, many will wonder if any clear idea can be formed about where the best investments, if there are any, are to be found. Neil Johnson, PR policy manager at the Building ...
Views: 743 - Where The Healthy Prospects Lie - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThose looking for good or bad news about the buy-to-let market should not have to hunt too far to find it in these times of change. But both will not be found in the same place, for different movements in the market, both geographically and in the type of property, have led to variable ...
Views: 677 - Why Down South Is Still Up Top In France - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2007 from Daniel KirbyInvesting in France Property has always been a popular way for Britons to secure a piece of foreign property, with the country second only to Spain, but the country is perhaps an even better location into which investors should sink their hard-earned than its Iberian neighbour across the ...
Views: 728 - Why Investors In France Are Not Beached - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThose looking at property investment in France have the luxury of a variety of different possible markets to serve. There are those who fancy commuting from Paris or other parts of the north to London via the Channel Tunnel. There are those who fancy a place among the famous vineyards. ...
Views: 801 - Will MPC Caution Cause Housing Slump - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2007 from Daniel KirbySince it became clear over the latter weeks and months of the summer that the UK housing boom was slowing down, speculation over interest rate cuts has emerged. What had begun as a question of when rates would rise to six per cent has become first a gradual realisation that the 5.75 per cent ...
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