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George Osborne is contemplating a major change in the council property rent structure in his forthcoming budget speech. There is intense speculation that those earning £40,000 and...
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Inheritance tax is one of the more controversial taxes in the UK with critics asking the question why you pay taxes when you are living and further taxes once you die. The Conserva...
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Only a few days ago we looked at the number of new builds across the UK with a significant increase during March to May 2015 compared to the corresponding period in 2014. The avera...
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The beauty of the real estate market is the fact that it is an ever evolving beast which changes and develops not always in the way we expect. Investors can react extremely quickly...
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but how many of us regret not buying “that property” when it was available many years ago? It is all good and well looking back and wishi...
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The California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers), which is the largest US pension fund, has announced plans to reduce its real estate exposure by up to $3 billion. This ...
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The worldwide real estate market has attracted significant attention from inexperienced investors over the last decade with many having watched the latest crop of property TV shows...
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There will be times when you read the financial press and “experts” seems to have caught the market perfectly. This may entail calling the top of the market or indeed c...
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This evening Greece is on the verge of collapse with talks over a final bailout extension with European partners having collapsed over the weekend. Indeed we now hear that the ECB ...
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Even though property is seen as a long-term investment this is a market which is extremely fluid and can change on a regular basis. While it would be wrong to say that property mar...
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As we covered in a recent article there has been a 15% increase in the number of new homes built across the UK comparing the period from March to May 2015 against the corresponding...
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There is no doubt that the Conservative party election win has given the construction sector a much-needed boost. This move is reflected in the number of new homes built between Ma...
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UK mortgage companies concluded just over £10 billion worth of business in the month of May which is the fifth consecutive monthly increase. This is an increase from the £9.7 bil...
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For many years China was seen as something of a closed shop with very few investors “allowed” to look overseas with regards to their personal real estate assets. Howeve...
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Despite the fact that it is all doom and gloom surrounding Greece and its potential exit from the Eurozone it seems that overseas investors are targeting the Spanish real estate ma...
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Today’s revelation that Andy Burnham, a Labour leader hopeful, knew that the so-called mansion tax was “spiteful” could call the death knell for this much discuss...
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Historically companies only float on the stock market, or raise additional capital, when there is greatest demand and they can squeeze the greatest value for money. So, this week&#...
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If you take a step back and look at how influential the media is upon investment markets around the world, is there potential to make an even greater gain by going against general ...
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The majority of focus in the UK property market seems to falls on domestic investments with many people are unaware of the underlying movement in the UK office market. However, a r...
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There is no doubt that new technology now allows us to acquire information, products and services at the touch of a button. However, transactions involving real estate have histori...