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Repo’s Fall
The total number of properties taken into possession by first charge mortgage lenders in 2011 was 36,200, the lowest annual total since 2007, according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. For the fourth quarter of 2011 the number [...]
How Not To Sell…
(or Rent)… A client asked if I could take a look at a property today as it had been struggling to sell, despite it being for sale with two estate agents for quite some time. In fact it had been [...]
Government To Control LTV?
Chancellor George Osborne is set to hand new powers to the Bank of England to regulate the mortgage market by allowing it to set loan-to-value ratio limits. The new powers would be aimed at controlling busts and booms, by banning [...]
Not A Lot, But…
The average price of a home rose by £844 in January, according to the latest Halifax House Price Index, as record low interest rates continued to support demand. Halifax reported a 0.6 per cent increase in prices, taking the average [...]
Sign Of The Times
Leading on from Stephen’s really informative article on how best not to sell your property HERE I really started to notice the boards agents use to sell and rent property and the real oddities that exist. Shockingly, all these photographs [...]
Billion Euro House
This is an unlikely consequence of the Irish economic crisis. Artist Frank Buckley decided to express his anger about the property boom and bust by building a house from more than a billion euros of decommissioned notes. In the lobby [...]
Clickety-Click
Huge amounts of doom and gloom already reported in the news and we are only one day into February… Astra Zenica shed 7,300 jobs American Airlines cuts 13,000 positions Sony reports massive quarterly loss Tesco loses market share But Facebook [...]
