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This week has seen the continuation of a frenzied buying spree of UK student accommodation with demand reaching fever pitch earlier this week when £670 million worth of transactio...
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It is debatable whether so-called “phantom bids” are a problem in the worldwide real estate market although this has not stopped the Ontario authorities introducing new...
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Over the last decade political parties in the UK have promised to protect first-time buyers from rising stamp duty costs. They have made many promises to “hit the rich”...
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History shows that the property market in Brooklyn, USA has defied gravity even during the most challenging property market times including the 2008 US mortgage led crash. Such is ...
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While the Scottish referendum and the political arena in the UK often attract wild and wonderful headlines, newspapers in Scotland are suggesting that many Scottish property owners...
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The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has issued a very interesting forecast for the UK property market for the next five years. While the headline news will relate to ...
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There is no doubt that technology plays a greater role in our everyday lives as time goes by. There are very few areas of everyday life which have remained untouched by the technol...
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While there is much talk in the press about the forthcoming UK referendum on membership of Europe it seems that property market are unconcerned at this moment in time. The Nationwi...
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It seems as though many investors are now switching on to the Scottish property market with prices increases over the 12 months to March 2015 outstripping those of the general UK a...
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If you read the popular press you will see that landlords have been painted as the devil incarnate making “millions of pounds” from their poor tenants. While it would b...
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If we look back around 20 years ago everybody seemed to depend upon real estate agents and property experts who dictated the future direction of the UK property market. In many way...
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In years gone by property was seen as a necessity as opposed to an investment with many people preferring direct or indirect investments based on the stock market. While there is n...
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Figures released by the Nationwide this week show that a staggering 38% of property transactions in the first three months of 2015 were acquired using cash. This figure is up from ...
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Over the last few years there has been a massive increase in the number of regulations covering money-laundering and real estate investment. Historically these have not gone down t...
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While there are many things to consider when looking at the UK buy to let market one of the most important factors is the rental yield. This will literally determine your return on...
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Holiday company Center Parcs is set to change hands for £2.4 billion if the rumours are correct about a potential sale to Canadian giant Brookfield. Those “close to the deal...
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The UK buy to let market is alive and kicking with the Daily Mail newspaper today announcing plans for a whole week of focus upon the sector. There have been a number of significan...
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If you’re looking towards the UK property market for the first time you could read a dozen websites, pick up a dozen newspapers and listen to a dozen people all of which are ...
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The high-profile arrest of prominent figures from FIFA has been headline news for some days now amid accusations of money laundering and bribery. While it has to be said that nobod...
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Even though some of the mass media tend to focus on the negative aspects of recent UK commercial property sector problems, the underlying situation has improved dramatically over t...