Over the course of the last few days we have been warned of the calamity to come because of the number of first time buyers into the UK housing market is fast drying up. …read more
Posts Tagged ‘House Prices’
The housing market crystal ball
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Want to buy a houseboat?
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
For some the thought of a life on the quiet UK waterways or even on the open sea is an idyllic and romantic aim. …read more
1.1 million home-owners can’t sell
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Research by the Santander shows that on top of the 725,000 home-owners that found a buyer since June 2009, another 1.1 million were not so lucky. …read more
House price index review
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
It seems that the UK Statistics Authority, which collects data and disseminates figures on just about everything you care to think of, wants to review the state of the many UK house price indices. …read more
A generation of renters
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Despite the prospect of falling house prices and an eventual loosening of the banks’ lending criteria, millions of people will never own their own home says …read more
Freeing up the housing market
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
As everyone would agree today the housing market is at a standstill. First time buyers cannot get on the ladder, people cannot upsize and in many cases cannot even sell a large place to downsize. …read more
Blame it on public sector cuts
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Public sector cuts and redundancies are in danger of causing the second dreaded dip in this ongoing economic saga.
According to a Guardian report the British Retail Consortium say that expectations of public sector redundancies have damaged the property and retail markets. The BRC director general said …read more
Brokers don’t always offer the best mortgage deals
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Looking at the four most popular mortgage types, the two and five years fixed rates and the two year and lifetime tracker deals, a recent study shows …read more
Increase in state pension age to accelerate
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) indicate that the plans currently in place to extend the pension age for both men and women do not go far enough and fast enough. …read more
End of lifetime council house tenancies
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Speaking at his fourth PM direct meeting in the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, David Cameron signalled the end to council residents’ right to tenure for life.
At present once in a council house tenant can generally stay for life and has the right to pass the house on to children …read more
Your mortgage questions answered
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
People have many varied questions regarding mortgages. It seems that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution. There is not even a one bank fits all circumstances solution.
Ronan Marrion, a mortgage consultant …read more
Squatting on the rise
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010If ever there was an argument for the introduction of a proper Land Value Tax (LVT) it is this.
The Independent reports that according to the Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) the number of squatters has increased from 9,500 in 1995, to 15,000 in 2003 and now up to 22,000. …read more
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