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Each day seems to bring news of record real estate prices in different markets around the world. Despite the fact that experts continue to talk down the worldwide property market i...
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Even during these difficult economic times there have been some very impressive performances in property markets around the world. London continues to go from strength to strength,...
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It is extremely difficult to predict when worldwide interest rates will return to more “traditional levels” especially when institutions such as the Bank of England seem to hav...
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The Chinese property market has been under pressure for some time amid signs that the economy is slowing and demand for property has dipped. This has prompted the authorities to in...
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When you bear in mind the uncertainty surrounding the UK economy, problems in China and a relatively weak worldwide economy, how would you expect UK property prices to perform? Wel...
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Just a few months ago we had fast food giant McDonald’s announcing plans to spin-off the company’s real estate portfolio into a separate entity. This week a similar move was an...
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In times of buoyant property markets the subject of flipping is something which emerges time and time again. This is simply the action of acquiring a property, possibly making mini...
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On the surface the worldwide property market seems fairly straightforward, a property is built, sold and then resold time and time again. In essence this is what the worldwide prop...
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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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As additional taxation on pension assets continues to hit home many people are now looking towards property investment as their “pension fund of the future”. This has p...
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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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In essence the real estate market is very simple, buy a property at an attractive price, earn rental income and then sell for a profit. This is obviously a much simplified version ...
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A thread about property auctions recently appeared on the forum which prompted a very interesting discussion about different types of property buyers. The fact that different types...
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Last week saw a plot of land in northern Hong Kong sell for less than market experts had predicted amid concerns that the Hong Kong real estate market is slowing down. While this p...
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While buy to let investments have attracted much attention over recent months some experts suspect that “buy to leave” investments could be adding to the woes of investors look...
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Any property investor, or any type of investor to think of it, who has not made an investment mistake is perhaps being a little economical with the truth. The fact is that the vast...
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Despite the fact there are many examples of property markets topping out, often looking very similar in graph form, human emotion can very often get the better of investors. Those ...