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 [...]
Prince Charles, property tycoon!
It is sometimes hard to realise that the likes of Prince Charles are actually multi millionaires who are heading up huge corporations with a turnover of millions of pounds.
However, it is true, the Princes main business goes under the banner of “The Duchy of Cornwall” this is where the bulk of his income comes from. [...]
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 [...]
Mexicans to claim land in Texas
No, this is not a call to arms, or an attempt by the people of Mexico to retake parts of Texas, although to some people who live in the lone star state, could be thinking that an invasion is on the cards. But it is rather a call to the wealthy Mexicans to get onto [...]
June 18, 2008Refugee 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 9, 2008More mortgages to choose from
There is no wonder that the finance industry is in such a state, you just have to look at the amount of weird and wonderful mortgages that are available in the market:
Muslim mortgages
Unusual home mortgages
125% mortgages
Builder deposit mortgages
Self certification mortgages
Shared equity mortgages
Shared ownership mortgages
Euro mortgages
Commercial mortgages
Guarantor mortgages
Buy-to-let mortgages
Clearly these products have been created for a [...]
No takers for free land
The promises of free land have encouraged people to travel across oceans before, but when a run down area in northern Japan decided that the only way that there town would survive is to drawn new people in, there was only one thing that they could offer.
So the signs have been displayed and the offer [...]
Celine Dion’s house wasting water
The world famous singer Celine Dion has spent such a long time in the Las Vegas heat that you would have thought that she would have realised that water is a short supply in some places and even if it is not short supply wasting water is just wrong.
Yet in the new Florida home of [...]
The price of homes still falling
With house values dropping for the eighth month in a row in England and Wales there has to be some concern as to where this is going to stop, are the prices going to fall further or will the price of property recover?
The problem that faces all of us at the moment is the simple [...]
Property pain in Spain
For many years now moving to Spain, whether it is for retirement or just to have a change of life style has been a dream for many brits some of whom have managed to pickup their root and make the move over to sunnier shores.
But recently the property market of there has been struggling just [...]
Why invest in a golf property?
When buying a property abroad, there are many factors involved in the buying process; this can be down to location, price and style. But many people enjoy living the golf life and there are many of these so called golf estates popping up.
You get the benefits of living around the golf club with all of [...]
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 [...]
The Blair’s buy £4 million home
The property market in the UK is fairly liquid at the moment, there are some places that are holding their own and others are losing pace with the rest of the market. But there are always so great bargains to have, which is why a lot of investors are busy building their portfolios.
One such investor [...]
The top property tycoons
When the property market is going though a stage like we are now, it is always great to hear about those people who made it in the world. In the case in the property world, these people come from many varying backgrounds; some have inherited, while others have worked their way from ground level.
20. ANDREW [...]
Green Development in Australia
It comes as no surprise that Australia where they have plenty of open space and sunshine, that they should be looking at creating new developments which are eco friendly and a project in Sydney is just one example of this growing trend towards redeveloping older sites, instead of taking land that could be used for [...]
April 18, 2008Property Portals put off agents and developers
Potential buyers of an overseas property may be losing out on some good deals when they visit an over seas property portal, this is because there are many foreign estate agents and property developers who do not use the property portals.
The main reason for this is that they find the portals too time consuming or [...]
Property in Ayrshire holds place
No matter what the state of the property market in this country, there is always some place that is not in line with the rest of the property market, and this time it would seem to be Ayrshire in Scotland.
They say that it has something to do with the close proximity to Ireland, which has [...]
UK property auctions
When it comes to property hardly anything is free, especially when it comes down to property auctions, there are many fees to look at for and yet why do people go to the property auctions and buy houses?
This is because the house prices at an auction are well bellow the average price for a similar [...]