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 [...]
UK privacy group want street view closed
As with other countries where Google’s Street View has gone online, the complaints have come rolling in as the system goes live in the UK.
Almost immediately, after the launch people began airing their views, which are divided some feel that it is a good idea while others do not like it at all.
Enter Privacy International [...]
Are there bargains in the UK?
The UK property market use to be a favourite hunting ground for Irish investors looking for a good deal, it has to be because the differences between Ireland and the UK are very slim and many people have connections in both camps.
However, you would have thought that in the current climate, this trend would have [...]
Fortuna Estates raided by police
Spanish property investment firm Oanna Group, which used to be known as Fortuna Estates had an early morning visit from the Spanish fraud squad at their office on the Costa del Sol, two people were arrested and twenty other were questioned.
The police were actually working on information received from some of the people working at [...]
Interest rate cuts to move market
Will the UK property market begin to show signs of a turnaround now that the Bank of England have reduced interest rates down to their lowest levels ever, or is this just going to hurt even more people and continue the cycle of decline.
For the property investor this would seem to be an ideal time [...]
Investing in property
Is property coming back as a better investment that keeping your cash in the bank? With interest, rates dropping like a stone. It seems that anything is going to be better than leaving your cash in the bank, where it is doing nothing for you.
However, property has had a bad press over the past year, [...]
UK property safe to invest in
There is no doubt that investing in property is not at the top of some peoples list of things to do and they have good reasons for this. However, when is the right time to get back into property? Some people believe that the time is now.
The reason why investing in property at this time [...]
House prices still set to fall
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 [...]