House prices in the UK are soaring. According to the Royal Institute of Chartered of Surveyors (RCIS), house prices are set to rise by 6 per cent in 2016. This is despite the government’s efforts to address Britain’s housing crisis by limiting the profitability of buy-to-lets with stamp-duty hikes and ...
A thriving London borough with a growing population and a strong economy The London Borough of Camden, with the famous Camden Town at its heart, covers just under 8.5 square miles and was formed from the amalgamation of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn and St. Pancras. Neighbouring areas are ...
A master plan is underway to grow the economy by 16% blocking £1 billion of development The city of Bath is in Somerset in south-west England, 97 miles west of London and 12 miles south-east of Bristol. ...
A rapidly expanding town with the fastest UK growth Designated as a new town in January 1967, Milton Keynes was designed with the intention to become a city in scale. The site was chosen specifically as it is equidistant from London, Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford and Cambridge. With the intention that ...
Property experts – apologies to anyone working at the firms I’m highlighting, but you bring it on yourselves. The companies below are considered some of the most reliable property experts in the UK. Making expert predictions is a fool’s game. It’s not that the hundreds of people employed at these firms are fools, it ’s just ...
There’s no need to wait to start investing in property. When we surveyed 400 of our investors recently, we discovered that 93% of respondents knew that they needed to buy more property than they had. And 86% said the main reason they didn’t start earlier was fear and not knowing ...
Why do experts get it so wrong? Have a look at the graph below, which shows the UK House Price Index between 1954 and the second quarter of 2015. There have been a couple of blips in the market–most markedly the early 1990s and 2007/2008-but overall it appears that the ...
Forget the past and the broken UK pension system. Focus on what you can do now. Recent research suggests that just over one-third of over 55s in the UK are contemplating spending their pensions on buying property. The government worries that everyone who’s eligible will race out and cash in their annuity, ...
London living in a green and historic town Many towns claim to ‘have it all’, but few can support this claim as well as Eltham. Located in South East London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Eltham mixes the urban conveniences and transport links one would expect in London with ...
Property trends are predictable The great thing about property is that it moves in very clearly defined cycles. So if you are holding property then it will shoot up, sit stagnant, and then shoot up again. If you are buying, selling or remortgaging then it will shoot up, overshoot the ...
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