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While the forthcoming referendum about the U.K.’s continued membership of the European Union should be a straightforward yes/no situation, infighting amongst UK factions is havin...
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Despite the fact that Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, was openly discussing a potential rise in UK base rates just a few months ago, the situation would appear to...
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Since the start of the year experts have noticed a reduction in some of London’s high-end property developments with the Battersea Power Station project the latest to hit the hea...
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Despite many warnings and suggestions that the UK property market is overvalued in some areas it seems that demand for UK real estate continues to rise. Even the ongoing European U...
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When you consider the various subjects taught in schools today, many of which are of little relevance in everyday life, it does make you wonder why basic property investment is not...
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If you look back to the 1980s there was a massive increase in homeownership across the UK as the Conservative government launched its right to buy policy. In hindsight many believe...
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Over the last few days we have seen media coverage of a report highlighting the fact that there are more private rental properties than mortgaged properties in London today. This m...
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In what many may see as a very disturbing development, new data from the UK government’s English Housing Survey has confirmed a very worrying trend. For the first time in 10 year...
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Banking giant Santander has released a research note suggesting that the UK property market will boom over the coming years. This is just the latest in a long line of reports on UK...
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Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, could become the first to serve a full term without adjusting interest rates since Lord Thomas back in 1949. When you bear in mind...
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For many years the Scottish property market has been overshadowed by its neighbour south of the border but recent data suggests that Scottish property is coming back into favour. T...
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Irrational exuberance is a term coined by investment markets which often comes before a market correction. As the term suggests, demand for property and the prices people are willi...
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Historically there have always been suspicions that UK housebuilders were sitting on enormous land banks as a means of pushing up the value of property. There have been various att...
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When you consider that the average home in England now costs in excess of £300,000 (as of November 2015 in an ONS report) and London is even higher at £537,000, have UK property ...
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David Cameron is currently attempting to renegotiate the U.K.’s relationship with the European Union amid plans for an in/out referendum probably sometime in 2016. Over the next ...
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The last few weeks have seen concerns regarding the Chinese economy, the falling price of oil and the impact this is having not only on economies but also worldwide stock markets. ...
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It was only a few weeks ago that Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, suggested it was only a matter of time before UK base rates moved higher. The way he was
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A recent survey suggested that just one in 10 people in the UK believe that property is affordable with a third suggesting it is unaffordable for first-time buyers. While there is ...
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Despite the fact that property seems to be the new “gold” safe haven for many investors there are growing concerns that a prolonged stock market sell-off, which began i...
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While the London property market is notorious for very small properties attracting large rental valuations it seems that this may be spreading to other parts of the UK. South Essex...
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