Investment News - Recovery Special Welcome to investment news, the first week of my '5 Week Recovery Special' where we'll be looking at what's being done and how (or if) it's working. First up, we'll take a look at Northern Rock and I'll explain what I mean when I say they're ...

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Quantitiative Easing or Inflation? This is just a quick investment blog to express my concern that some property investors feel they are out of the high interest rate danger zone. This is not the case; you need to be aware that rates can easily jump back up. Yes, low interest ...

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RICS valuations Brett has asked me to write about some of the frustrating things I am finding as I search for property investment opportunities which are suitable for our clients. I have to say that many of the things that are happening in the market at the moment are enlightening to ...

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Investment News - Looking long term, In a Build-to-order Property Market They say "no news is good news" and I had to do some serious sniffing around this week to dig up some original stories for you about build-to-order property market. We'll be taking a look at build-to-order property market ...

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Getting the right buy-to-let valuations A lot of you may not be aware that a great number of property investment companies have gone belly up during 2008 and 2009. The biggest of these have been Inside Track and Challenor Properties. Regardless there are probably 50 or so that no longer ...

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A new type of development Over the past few weeks I have been meeting and lunching with various developers around the country and without exception every one of them has firstly made it clear that their stock is running low but also that they would not be building in the ...

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Investment News - Is this the worse recession? Welcome to this week's video market update! Glad to have you back! People from various investment news outlets have been calling it the worst recession since the war, etc. Are they right? Is what's happening now just a normal part of the ...

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Investment News Well, it appears that we've reached the tipping point in the property market. Developers out of stock A number of our developers are now completely out of stock. This is not an isolated case; many of our developers are at critically low levels or have simply run out. ...

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  Investment News – Our team received some happy news I was chatting with the team the other day discussing the investment opportunities that they have been buying up in a frenzy most of it at around 30%-50% off 2007 prices almost 20 properties in the past 4 months! I did ...

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A different recession idea . . . I had lunch today with my publisher and two of her lifelong friends. Julian is an economist by trade, and we chatted about the recession and, in particular, his thoughts about solving the problem based upon a number of proven models. First, let's ...

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