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Figures released today show that after a challenging seven-month period it seems that buyers are now returning to the UK property market. Estate agent will be relieved to see this ...
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Growing hostilities between Hillary Clinton and her fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump reached new lows this week in the latest televised debate. The issues of income tax, ...
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The Chinese authorities have yet again clamped down on property market investment amid concerns that the sector is headed for a price bubble. While in normal circumstances you woul...
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Despite the fact that the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill 2016 was passed in March this year progress has been relatively slow in rolling out all of the new regulatio...
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While the headline from any particular property market will involve property price movements, why should it all revolve around prices? This may sound something of a bizarre comment...
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When researching the property market we found a number of articles discussing the tactics which some real estate agents use to close a sale. It has to be said that the vast majorit...
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently released a raft of information regarding changes in the UK property market in recent times. We will cover some of the informat...
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We all know the story of the hare and the tortoise which essentially suggests that slow and steady will always win in the end. Have you ever looked at the property investment marke...
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Since the 2008 worldwide economic downturn there is no doubt that demand for property has increased dramatically. For many this is as much a consequence of a lack of confidence in ...
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is today pleading with the UK government to focus more on rental properties than home ownership. This may come as a surprise to ...
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In what many will see as a case of déjà vu, the UK government has announced plans to inject £5 billion into the UK housebuilding sector. Along with admittance that the UK houseb...
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If we look back to the worldwide economic crisis which began in 2008 we saw a Dubai real estate market which was riding high even in the midst of the worst worldwide economic downt...
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The controversial Help to Buy scheme, which many believe has increased demand for UK property, will not be extended beyond its current life of 2016. This is a scheme which has attr...
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Vancouver is the latest major city to impose a specific tax on foreign investors acquiring real estate. Many of those concerned about the spiralling cost of property in Vancouver, ...
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Sadiq Khan, the recently appointed Mayor of London, has today announced an investigation into foreign property ownership across London. Amid concerns that foreign investment is pus...
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We can look at any number of property markets around the world and see relatively strong trends emerging which sometimes seem to be endless. The investment term “the trend is you...
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Fresh from his emphatic leadership election win Jeremy Corbyn has been waxing lyrical about his plans for the future. Under his leadership the Labour Party will be pushing for an a...
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Financial giant Standard Life is the latest investment giant to announce plans to reopen it suspended property fund. The UK Real Estate Fund, and associated feeder funds, was suspe...
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The Canadian city of Vancouver tops the list of real estate markets at greatest risk of a house price bubble according to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2016. While the te...
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While many people concentrate on the domestic buy to let market there is a blooming market in holiday lets. The one major drawback is that the vast majority of holiday lets are unl...