Average UK rents

May 8, 2009 · Filed Under Costs, Market, Mortgages, Rental · Comment 

There has been much spoken about the value of property and how the market could be on the verge of bottoming out, but when it comes to rents there is never much said and yet the rental market is a significant part of the property sector.
The average monthly rent is currently £589.68 this is calculated [...]

Commercial property performing badly

February 9, 2009 · Filed Under Construction, Costs, Investments, Market · Comment 

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 [...]

Getting back into the market

January 26, 2009 · Filed Under Costs, Investments, Mortgages, Property · Comment 

It is like the holy grail of the property market, when to get onto the property ladder. In the past, this was not a problem, in fact, banks and building societies were literally falling over themselves in order to get new business, but we all know where that led us.
The property market has seen prices [...]

Property prices in Spain still dropping

January 22, 2009 · Filed Under Costs, Dangers, Mortgages, Property · Comment 

Spain had been the dream for many Brits to either retire to or even just to start a new life, yet with a community that has been estimated to be as high a one million people things may not be so good over there these days.
For some enough is enough and it is time to [...]

UK property market recovering?

January 16, 2009 · Filed Under Costs, Dangers, Investments, Market · Comment 

In times like those that we have today, it is very difficult to decide on which information is helpful to your own individual situation. This is because there are some many variations of the same story making it virtually impossible for someone to make an informed decision.
This is true when it comes to the property [...]

Country houses near bottom prices

January 7, 2009 · Filed Under Costs, Investments, Land, Property · Comment 

Large country houses are never really affected by the market fluctuations in the same way that other properties are, this is because these houses are few and far between and when one eventually does come onto the market, there are plenty of buyers willing to take them on.
However, in these market conditions there has been [...]

Don’t blame the estate agents

December 19, 2008 · Filed Under Dangers, Investments, Mortgages, Property · Comment 

Who is to blame for the current housing crisis? Like with any crisis there is always someone to blame but in this there are many angles to the story and they all seem to be blaming each other.
The banking sector has taken the main hit for allowing people to borrow money that clearly they had [...]

House prices still set to fall

December 16, 2008 · Filed Under Costs, Investments, Mortgages, Property · Comment 

The UK is split up into a lot of different markets when it comes to the values of property and not surprisingly these markets all act in very different ways, but there is one thing that all have in common the prices are falling.
On average it is believed that the figure will have fallen by [...]