Published by Financial Advice on Tuesday 14th September 2010   Estate agents in the UK have turned dramatically gloomy on the UK market with the latest survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors showing that a balance of 32% more estate agents saw a reduction in prices in August compared to those who saw […]

Published on Business Sale By Rob Moor, Monday 6th September 2010   The commercial property market in the UK is witnessing huge growth in investor confidence following a year of positive returns. Alongside rising rental returns and increased investor confidence, the Independent Property Databank recently revealed a 16.9 per cent rise in the UK quarterly […]

Published by Financial Advice Thursday 26th August 2010 At this moment in time the first-time buyer of property in the UK is a very rare commodity as mortgage lenders look to pull up the drawbridge and reduce their short-term risks. Despite the fact that we have seen an increase in the number of first-time property […]

Would you bother much? This is temporary and want stay ‘down’ forever. The article below gives more details. By Lee Boyce 16 August 2010 UK property asking prices fell for the second month in succession as the market was hit by over-supply and subdued activity in the summer holidays. The research by property website Rightmove, […]

Source: Grant Saw Solicitors … The new law, the Assured Tenancies (Amendment) (England) Order 2010 which comes into force on 1 October 2010 is retrospective in that on that day any tenancy whose rent is more than £25,000.00 and less than £100,000.00 will be converted from an unregulated tenancy to an AST. Landlords who have […]

By ILONA BILLINGTON   LONDON—U.K. house prices fell in July for the first time in a year as the number of new properties for sale outpaced demand from more cautious buyers and further price declines look likely over the coming three months, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said Tuesday. A separate survey of retail […]

What a mess 🙂   This completely contradicts what Capital Economics said recently in the same source.     Published by: Financial Advice   The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) recently released its view on the UK property market which would appear to be in direct conflict with a number of downbeat statements […]

Article published by Financial Advice     While the National Institute of Economic Research has today issued a report regarding the UK property sector, with a forecast that house prices will fall by 8% in real terms by 2015, this is not the worst forecast currently in the marketplace! A report by Capital Economics today […]

By Merryn Somerset Webb and published in FT.com The indefinite suspension of National Savings & Investments (NS&I) Index-Linked saving certificates earlier this week has irritated savers (see page 2). And for very good reason. Without them there is absolutely no way to earn a real return on cash without taking a certain amount of risk. […]

PropertyWire 14 July 2010 The latest property price index from the UK government shows that values were still rising in May and suggest the market, although slowing, is doing better than other reports suggest. The UK house price index produced by the department of Communities and Local Government includes data based on mortgage completions during […]