Woman escapes repossession by suicide
It is a sad sign of the times when people feel that they have no choice other than to end their lives.
However, this just highlights the pressures that some people are finding themselves in, as the financial pressures build on ordinary people who have done nothing wrong, apart from trying to get on in [...]
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 [...]
First time buyers find it hard
First time buyers are having to come up with a whole load of cash in order to get that first step on the property ladder according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors first time buyers need to find around £27,738 just to get the key to the door of their new home and these [...]
July 15, 2008The sign of a good or bad agent
With the property market in the state that it is in at the moment, it is essential for someone wanting to sell their house that they find the right estate agent, failure to do so could result in being a very expensive mistake to make.
But how on earth can you tell if an agent is [...]
Your home is no longer your castle
Changes in the way that criminals are treated could leave the householders of the UK worrying about the way that the authorities are planning on punishing burglars.
It seems that the law is working in the favour of the lawbreaker rather than the other way around. No longer can a householder protect their family and possessions [...]
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 [...]
House prices remain low until 2015
It may be some time before the prices of property return to levels of what they were before the credit crunch; according to a top government advisor these prices will not reach that level until 2015! This is a daunting prospect for many people who have seen their property prices drop slightly, but it does [...]
June 19, 2008Housing 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 [...]
Refugee day comes to London
To hammer home the plight of refuges a replica village appeared in Trafalgar Square yesterday, complete with the burnt remains of the huts and other items, it is meant to show what is it must be like to be driven from your home.
Around the village was a makeshift refugee camp, with tents and sack [...]
Squatters Rights still causing problems
This is something that does not come up much these days, but squatters can be a total nightmare for the property owner. Imagine buying a house and doing it up, you get the stage where you are ready to move in, only to find that there is a bunch of squatters inside and there is [...]
June 5, 2008Getting priced out of buying a home
Despite the so called credit crunch, there are literally thousand of first time buyers waiting to find their dream home. This you would think, sort of goes against the current trend.
However, according to a recent report by Professor Steve Wilcox, of the University of York, there are around twenty five per cent of these [...]
House prices in the US falling fast
Any hopes of a quick recovery from the slump in the value of houses may have taken a bit of a hit today as it has been announced that the property sector in the US is falling faster than property prices did during the Great Depression.
In the first quarter of the year house prices were [...]
House blown up over boy
A gang of girls are believed to be behind the destruction of three houses which killed a man, injuring others, not to mention the fact that these families have been made homeless too.
The reason for the mayhem is supposed to be over a boy and the intended victim turns out to be girl who was [...]
Moon to be bought and sold
As private space tourism is reaching out past the earths atmosphere there are calls for an international agreement as to what can actually be done should a private firm land on the moon and begin to colonise it.
There are several private companies interested in space tourism, but what happens when one gets to the moon, [...]
Surviving property repossession
As bad as it may seem to normal people, house repossessions are on the rise; around seventeen thousand homes were repossessed last year alone. That’s a huge amount of families who have been left without a home.
But this figure is set to rise, despite the government’s advice; if you fall behind on your mortgage payments [...]
BBC makes repossession programme
It makes no difference what TV channel you watch you are almost guaranteed that at some stage there will be some sort of property programme which explains how easy it is to up and sell on at a huge profit. But rarely is this happening these days, prices are high and buyers are virtually non [...]
April 28, 2008Housing market at lowest for thirty years
For the first time in over thirty years confidence in the UK housing market has fallen to its lowest point, this follows a report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RiCS) which stated that nearly eighty per cent of their members are reporting falls in property values for the month of March.
It is believed [...]
Options for first time buyers
Even though there is a potential house buying crisis going on at the moment and it is new home buyers who getting the raw end of deal. Despite what is being said about new buyers trying to get a foot on the property ladder there some decent opportunities out their for the first time home [...]
April 8, 2008Buy to Let in trouble
The changes within the mortgage industry have affected many people, but the hardest hit would seem to be those people who have invested in the Buy to Let market. Many of these people have seen that buying property is a great investment and so to buy a property on a mortgage and rent it out [...]
April 7, 2008Couple sues Google on privacy
This one has been coming for sometime and could be the start of many complaints from around the world. A couple from Pennsylvania in the States who are suing internet giant Google over images that have been taken of the house, this data is used for publishing street view images and details of property.
Google have [...]