How to sell your house
Selling a house in a market like the present, is not the easiest thing to be doing, believe it or not there some people out there who are selling their properties. The difference between them and other house sellers is by simply having the right package ready for when the viewing take place.
There are many [...]
Scottish Property Still Rising
Despite the trends in the property market at the moment, it seems that not all is bad within the property market; this is especially true when it comes to Scotland where prices are surprisingly holding on.
In fact to completely throw the current property trend right up in the air, according to some sources the actual [...]
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. [...]
South East property holds on
Listening to the news, anyone would think that the price of property in the whole of the UK is in free fall! However, this is not necessarily so in all areas and is particularly not true in the South East corner of the UK.
Nevertheless, recent reports are showing the price of property in the region [...]
House prices are set to rise
At last, there could be some good news over the horizon, well at least when it comes to property prices. In report which has been published by the National Housing Federation are claiming that within the next five years property prices are set to rise.
In fact they are suggesting a slight increase, they predict that [...]
Average UK house price falls
The UK average house price has fallen this month on the same time last year. This is the first time that something like this has happened in the UK property for a number of years. The property marketing company Rightmove Plc started keeping records in 2002 and this is the first time since their record [...]
July 17, 2008First 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 [...]
One place where property prices are on the rise
When we listen to the news and there happens to be a story that covers the property world it can be almost guaranteed that the story will be mentioning that the prices are not just dropping, but it will be staying like this for some time.
There are never any stories about the places where property [...]
Even the wealthy fear property prices
With the property market being a bit unsettled the last people that you would have thought of as giving up and selling off would be the wealthy investors who have made so much out of investing in the UK property market.
But it would appear that even these wealthy people have become a little scared at [...]
The most stunning places to live in the UK
The most stunning areas in the UK can often be much more expensive than the neighbouring areas, sometimes as much as three quarters higher for a similar property. So it is true that it is not just the property it is also the location which makes the whole think complete.
The top ten most beautiful places [...]
Mortgage fraud arrests in the US
In a clamp down mortgage in the US, the FBI has arrested hundreds of people as they investigate the growing problem of mortgage fraud. The people arrested include mortgage brokers, estate agents and other people involved in the industry.
It is believed that around four hundred people have been charged with offences and around three hundred [...]
Now could be a time to buy
There has been a one sector of growth within the property sector which has seen some significant growth. They are called “Property Finders” and they follow the lead that we have seen on the TV where house buyers get help in buying their dream home.
They are considered to be the other side of the coin [...]
More 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 [...]
Getting 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 [...]
The future of property
One day will we all be living in virtual realities such as Second Life? Well some people believe so as there has been a rise in the amount of people leaving their life in the real world and living another completely separate life on Second Life.
Why not? After all you are able to do everything [...]
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 [...]
May 5, 2008Reasons to buy a home
With all that talk of the property market being depressed we thought that it may be a good idea to remind you the reason as to why so many people take the plunge and jump straight onto the property ladder.
Some great reasons why we buy property:
Appreciation is the increase in the value of your asset, [...]