Tips for property investors
Now more than ever is when anyone thinking of making an investment in property should do some ground work before hand, especially after the recent collapse in the property sector. However, as with any fall such as we are experiencing this opens up the door for an investor who is able to buy in low [...]
May 13, 2009Community spaces to get designer makeovers
The Times and MyDeco are currently running a campaign that will see public spaces around the country given a makeover by top British designer Sir Terence Conran and interior designer Tara Bernerd. Which is something very special indeed for the local community.
These public spaces do not have to be parks or open spaces either, [...]
Man sets house on fire chasing a spider
Some stories are just too odd to be true, like this guy in Portsmouth who clearly suffers from arachnophobia has apparently set his home on fire. Fortunately, for the man in his forties his home was not that bad, but it could have been so much different.
What is amusing in a crazy sort of way [...]
What is fractional ownership?
There is lot of talk about fractional ownership these days, it is like a timeshare for property owners who can buy a place in London that would normally be out of their reach, but at the same time, the owners share the costs.
However, what does fractional ownership mean? Below are the main points that make [...]
Commercial property performing badly
Despite hopes that there could be a recovery in the property market, it looks as if the commercial sector is still going to be suffering over the next year of so by as much as twenty five per cent. This is because of the lack of lending by the financial sector.
What makes this worse for [...]
UFO Insurance in the UK
When people insure their homes one thing that is probably the last thing on their mind is insuring against a UFO hitting their home. With reports coming in from around the world about increased UFO sightings and the fact that in the UK a damaged wind turbine was put down to a UFO strike, insurance [...]
January 14, 2009Scots to get free insulation
The Green Party in Scotland are close to completing a deal which could see 1.8 million homes in Scotland becoming eligible for free home insulation.
What this means is, it this is given the go ahead local insulation firms will be paid by the government to offer qualifying households free loft and cavity insulation, which can [...]
Commercial properties to cost banks £70 billion
It looks as if the UK banking industry are preparing for a £70 million hit, this time it is down the loans that they have issued against commercial property, up until now the commercial property sector has not been in the picture, but that is all about to change.
Some banks are predicting that commercial property [...]
Could commercial property fall a further 25%?
When we talk about property it nearly always refers to the residential side, yet the commercial sector is feeling the pinch just a bad if not worse than the residential property market is.
Some experts in the commercial property sector are actually speculating that there could be a further fall of around twenty five per cent [...]
Making a home green
Today it is not as easy to sell your home as it was several years ago; this has nothing to do with the credit crunch or lack of buyers. Because sometimes the problems start with the home being energy efficient, this is a major concern these days and if a seller wants to get a [...]
October 9, 2008Who gets the house?
This is a story which is often mention in TV programmes but in reality it is rarely done, we are talking about is dividing up the house when a couple separate, some people have radical ideas on how to get over the credit crunch.
This particular couple are from Phnom Penh and their idea is not [...]
Buy to Let goes broke
Buy to let used to be one of the main sources of income for estate agents and mortgage lenders, but since the property market has taken a down turn and the recent financial problems, this market has all but dried up.
But now there are even more problems facing this volatile sector of the property market, [...]
Is the property crisis over?
Is it possible that we may have seen the worse when it comes to the property market? Well if we listen to what the National Association of Estate Agents is saying, then we may have reached the worse point and can expect a turnaround soon.
However, can we really take notice on what a single report [...]
The Current property market
The UK housing market is made up of so many variations that it is virtually impossible to tell is the market is moving up or down. This is because it is not just the properties involved in this equation it is much more than that.
House buyers, especially those looking to buy their first home have [...]
Property developers look overseas
In the UK, the property market is on a knife-edge and it could just take one simple bad piece of news that could bring the whole thing down. However, property developers and estate agents have their collective sights set on foreign buyers to come in over the next ten years.
There have always been foreign investors [...]
Property crash in Spain
Spain has long been the retirement choice for many Brits who have worked hard all of their lives and decided that it is time relax in the sun. However, as the coasts of Spain over the past twenty years have been inundated with investment properties, which has flooded the market.
But now the Spanish authorities are [...]
House prices could fall for two years
It is now as we begin to feel the full effects of the credit crunch, when we grasp at any story that tends to be in favour of an upturn in the economy but unfortunately, these good news stories are beginning to get thinner on the ground.
Now the chairman of the Citigroup bank is warning [...]
When is a garden, not a garden?
Most people believe and rightly so that when they buy a house that the garden is theirs to do with as they please within reason. But there some authorities within the UK who would like to think that they can go around deciding exactly what you are allowed do in your own garden.
One man, Michael [...]
One place where property prices are on the rise
When we listen to the news and there happens to be a story that covers the property world it can be almost guaranteed that the story will be mentioning that the prices are not just dropping, but it will be staying like this for some time.
There are never any stories about the places where property [...]
Housing sector looking worse
It has been said that we are looking at a situation that could be worse than in the late 1980’s when the property market was certainly dire! But without have to seem too of a doom and gloom merchant but things could be the same or worse.
According to the Building Societies Association, the rescue plan [...]