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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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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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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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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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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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It was only a matter of time before the extremely low rental yields across London’s more luxurious real estate markets turned the heads of investors to the provincial sectors...
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As the UK consumer price index (CPI) dips to -0.1% for the month of April there are concerns about the potential impact upon the UK real estate market in the short to medium term. ...
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There is no doubt that the London property market is head and shoulders above any other real estate market in the world. It is in effect its own niche market within the UK and attr...
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There is one anomaly which has been ongoing for many years now and that is rules in the UK which ban residential property from pension schemes. The UK government has recently intro...
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The last couple of years have seen a number of crowd funding websites appear targeting property investors. In simple terms crowd funding is an interesting way in which investors/de...
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There is nothing like a knife edge election to drum up business for the UK property market as we have seen over the last few weeks. If all of the headlines and the concerns are
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Within 48 hours we will know the voting habits of the UK public although it may take a little longer before we know the make-up of the next coalition government. The property marke...
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Despite the fact that many investors seem concerned about the potential for a Labour government after Thursday’s election there is a growing appetite for debt amongst UK comm...
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It seems to be a “given” that luxury properties across the UK will be hit with a so-called mansion tax in the next Parliament. Even if the Conservatives, often seen as ...
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A report by Nationwide has confirmed what many property experts already believed, i.e. that the UK housing market is still relatively strong. The report confirms that the average h...
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Politicians across the UK have been promising potential first-time buyers significant discounts, more properties to choose from and a reduction in stamp duty. We have seen promises...
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The UK property market has become such an easy target for politicians to raise additional funds that many people automatically assume that the proposed “Mansion tax” is...
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UK housing giant Taylor Wimpey has released a very upbeat statement about the UK property market suggesting earlier concerns about the forthcoming general election have been overdo...