Property Investment News - Stock Drying up, This week's the UK and International Property Investment News update is our first outside broadcast brought to you directly from the snow drift outside our offices in Islington. Only half the office made it in today, so we had a bit of fun ...

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70% LTV Max! It seems ridiculous, but it looks like buy-to-let loan-to-values are going to drop to a maximum of 70% within the next few weeks as Birmingham Midshires (part of the HBOS group) is taken over by Lloyds. Lloyds' maximum loan-to-value on buy to let property is currently only ...

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Property Investment News - Bank Bailout Welcome to this week's investment news update and before I forget 'Happy Australia day!' This week, it's a bank bailout special, and I'll be devoting this week's property investment news update to the subject of bailouts. What exactly is a bailout, who's behind them, ...

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How to get the most from BMV property It's a fact of all investment opportunities that sometimes prices will go down. I've personally seen it in my own portfolio and if you're honest you'll have seen it in your own portfolios as well. The important thing is that we are realistic and ...

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Does it smell of risk Just watching a great TV show that looks at the crash in the financial system that we have just been through. It's called “The City Uncovered” with Evan Davies and I found it a very accurate and honest account of why it all happened. In ...

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More affordable property I had a good weekend with an offer being accepted at half the asking price on a property we were looking at. I also look at how the property is becoming much much more affordable to buy now that prices have dropped. Good news if you are ...

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Look for age not properties, I bet you all remember the joke definition of expert: “X is an unknown quantity and expert is a drip under pressure” – which means that an “expert” is an “unknown drip under pressure”. James and I had lunch today at Hakkasan (a fabulous Michelin star ...

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Property price predictions Welcome back to 2009 and my weekly investment news update. I've just spent the past 3 weeks in Spain escaping the worst of the UK weather - but I'm back now refreshed and ready to bring you property news every week. OK so let's look at this ...

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18-Year Cycle I spent the weekend reading every manner of different theory about what will happen in property this year. It was interesting to say the least. One of the theories that caught my eye was the 18-year Property Cycle. It claims to apply to the last 232 years of ...

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2009 Price Predictions I started this article thinking that by the end I'd throw my predictions into the ring about where I think house prices are going to end up in 2009. I started by doing some research into what other ‘property experts‘ within the industry were predicting and after about ...

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