Here are some tips for anyone who is thinking about putting their saving into an investment property:

Budget - Set yourself a budget for your Property investment
Strategy - This is very important. Decide on a Strategy for your Property Investment
Location - When choosing your Investments, focus on their location
Profit - Ensure when you are looking at an Investment Property that you focus on Profit
Experts - Where possible consult the experts

Source [Property 365]

The problem is that even after getting their hands on the governments handouts the lenders are still saddled with mortgages secured on properties that are actually worth less than the outstanding amount owing.

This places the banks in a situation where they are having to prop up the loan to value figure in order to keep their own heads above water.

The only saving factor would be if and when the property market returns to a level that evens off the balance between the outstanding loan amounts against the value of the property that it is secured against.

Source [Property Wire]

The island is around forty five acres in size and is known as Little Hall’s Pond Cay. However, although there is little information about the island it is known to have six beaches that have all been named after family and friends.

To get to and from the island a trip on a steam powered yacht is needed, but once on the island the star, his wife, friends and children can go about their daily lives without intrusion. This is the real advantage for a celebrity, being able to relax without the fear of being caught on camera.

Source [Vanity Fair]

The research carried out by the Centre for Economics and Business Research found that in 2007, there were 489,000 millionaires in the UK, but recent research has found that the amount of millionaires has fallen to 242,000.

It has also been found that for the average millionaire, their estimated wealth has fallen by around twenty five per cent in the last year alone.

The definition of a millionaire is a person who is worth a million pounds in property and cash, but only after taking off mortgages and other borrowings, it is clear to how the market has affected the millionaire’s status.

Source [Starnova]

However, there are concerns that Google’s results have become clouded somewhat through the introduction of monetisation of the search industry. There are other alternatives available, like the data provided through Linkscape; its results are dependent on links, which gives the search results a completely different view.

Below of the top fifteen property portals in the world.

Realtor.com
Soufun.com
Zillow.com
Immobilmente.com
Funda.nl
Focus.cn
Trulia.com
Move.com
Realestate.com.au
Gdeetotdom.ru
EscapeArtist.com
Immobilienscout24.de
Rightmove.co.uk
Immowelt.de
Domain.com.au

These results are found by the amount of incoming links to the sites, it is a bit link going back a few years to when Google ranked sites according various factors including links.

Source [Global Edge]

Nina was born into a poor family in 1937 and was married at eighteen; the couple’s property ventures shaped the way that Hong Kong grew with shopping centres, offices and apartments.

However, despite being apparently happily married until her husband’s death, it turns out that a claim is being made from a former barman turned feng shui master; Tony Chan has a fifteen year long affair with Nina.

The will that leaves the money to charity was written in 2002, but Tony Chan is seeking to have the will ruled out because he has a will dated 2006 that names him as sole heir to the fortune, the case continues.

Source [Telegraph]

These public spaces do not have to be parks or open spaces either, they can be anywhere that the public uses, such doctors surgeries, village halls in fact anywhere that the public feels could do with a redesign and made to be a bit more welcoming.

Interested people can go to the MyDeco website to enter; they can also download information and posters to promote their cause among the local people or users of these public places that are in need of smartening up.

The MyDeco entry page is Here

Source [Times Online]

The average monthly rent is currently £589.68 this is calculated from data collected on 4,477 tenancies throughout England and Wales, the figure is calculated from actual rents collected and not those that are advertised, this gives a true value of how rental prices are doing.

Currently the rental price is slightly up on the year, which just goes to show how stable the property rental market in the UK is.

Percentage change:

12 months
+1.752%
6 months
-0.239%
3 months
+2.039%
1 month
+0.980%

Source [Rent Index]

What is amusing in a crazy sort of way is the fact that the spider was on the outside of the house and the guy decided that he would try to set light to it with a lighter, simple enough if only the spider stood still, but it was moving and so was therefore so was the lighter.

Somehow, the house caught fire and began to spread. When the fire brigade turned up they found the man trying to put the fire out with a garden hose, the fire brigade quickly got it under control before the flames reached the loft.

Source [Telegraph]

The good thing about this is that for little or no outlay a home owner can increase the value of the property it does not mean huge investments, but what it is likely to mean is some hard work as most of these improvements can be done without getting anyone in.

Here are just a few ideas to get you thinking:

Tidy up the property
Neat Landscape and gardens
Paint the interior and exterior
Tile around fire place or add a fireplace
Hard-wood floors and wood panelling
Power-wash and refinish wood deck
New driveway

Source [Mortgage Calculator Me]