Investment News - New coalition, new investment landscape Just this week the Tories and the Liberal Democrats released the UK Coalition program. With dread, I picked it up and devoured it and today I'm going to discuss some of the ...

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Energy Performance certificate Home information packs (HIPS) are dead, finally those terrible and useless things are suspended by the government. They haven't cancelled them totally as they are written into law and until the law is changed they cannot legally cancel ...

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Investment News - Keep on saving I am still in sunny Australia. This week I bring you the investment news from the balcony across the Jupiters Casino in the Gold Coast. So this week, we'll make a comparison between the ...

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Property Investment News - The general election commences I am bringing this week's property investment news from Phuket, Thailand as I am nearing to the end of my holiday. So this week the General Election has well and truly began ...

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Investment News - New pre-election budget  Following yesterday's pre-election budget speech from Alistair Darling, we look at some of today's headlines... Stamp duty cut for first-time buyers - is this really a good strategy to bring them onto the market, ...

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The worst things to happen to my portfolio nightmares It might be a scary headline but I was asked at a CEO round table the other day what ‘horrific' things have happened to my investment property portfolio nightmares. I think that ...

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The dangers of obscure securities This past two years I have spent many hours helping clients out who have bought properties through a multitude of property companies. Now this in itself isn't wrong, but the mistake they have made is ...

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