Unusual kitchen gadgets
Once you have found the home of your dreams, the next step is to make it your home. One to this is to stamp a bit of your individual taste on it. However it is not recommended that anything too permanent is done to the décor or the structure, but you can add your individual [...]
May 9, 2008Surviving 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 [...]
Californian man goes to jail for improving property
Sounds extreme? Well maybe but considering that he had no planning permission, well yes it still sounds a little extreme.
Francisco Linares from Rolling Hills Estates, California, decided that he would be making a few minor improvements to his property, by building a fence, a small retaining wall, a patio and some small concrete posts along [...]
Properazzi the property search engine
Whether you are looking for property to rent or to buy, the property search engine, Properazzi is about to re-launch with a new version of the site.
The site has a different and more professional feel to it, starting off with an area map search, there are property listings that cover Europe and in some cases [...]
The property pension scheme
It is getting to the stage where property can out perform pension plan. So it may not be long before the time when instead of investing in a pension plan it may be well worth placing the future of your retirement finances in the solid hands of property.
According to the Pensions Advisory Service, they claim [...]
Overseas property investments double
There has been a rise in the amount of UK investors looking at buying property overseas. And the figure has virtually doubled in the past year.
The main reason for this rise is for, a relocation choice, where they can set up and start a new life, or as an investment with a view to retires [...]
Help for key workers
In direct competition to the governments Open Market Homebuy scheme, which helps key workers to find a home and buy it on an equity share basis, Scottish Widows Bank has launched their own brand of key worker help.
The main point of this is the offering of a 102% mortgage, this means that buyers with little [...]
Its property but not as we know it
Buying property as an investment can have a certain amount risk, but if that small piece of land ended up in the middle of a large development or was found to have other resources then its value could increase substantially.
Which brings us to a strange subject, buying property on the moon, mars or any other [...]
Experts say property strong
Despite the drop in share prices around the world, property experts believe that the housing market in the UK will remain steady. Although the stock market crisis is said to have been triggered because of the problems in the USA housing market, this should have no effect on property prices here.
However the problem in the [...]
Scottish property boom stalls
Could the property boom that has lifted property prices in Scotland be coming to an end? If you look at the property prices for the three months to the end of July 2007 the property values in Glasgow and Aberdeen have actually fallen by around 1.3 per cent when compared to the quarter before.
Interest rates [...]
Mortgage details freely available on Website
With ID fraud being on everyone’s mind, you would have thought that you mortgage details would be held on a secure data base where nobody could get their hands or eyes on them. Unfortunately you would be wrong, as it seems your mortgage details, can be purchases for just £3 and its the government who [...]
August 13, 2007600,000 homes built for immigrants
This figure may seem huge, which it is. But the amount is the ten year figure and relates to approximately four out of ten new homes built since 1997 (When Labour first came to power!). These have been needed to house immigrants. The figures are three times the amount needed under the conservatives.
The figures speak [...]
Spanish property market cooling
Could it be possible that the property market in Spain is beginning to show signs of cooling down? Well according to the German bank Commerzbank, this could be happening sooner than later, with the Spanish economic growth expecting to slip back around 1.5 per cent in 2008!
There are some striking resemblances with the UK in [...]
Five improvements to add value
Apart from buying a property and tidying it up, is there much more you can do that will improve the value of the property? Well yes there is, we all know of some home improvements that can add value or do they?
How can you be sure that the home improvement is the right one [...]
Finding student accommodation
Finding the right accommodation can sometimes be harder that getting into the college or university of your choice in the first place. You will be looking in an unknown area, not knowing anyone to recommend an area etc. So what is really needed is a review service by students for students.
This students eye view is [...]
A rise of 30% in Home repossessions
There has been a marked increase in the repossession of houses according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). It was revealed that there has been an estimated 14,000 properties were repossessed in the first six months of the year, which is where the 30% increase on last year comes in.
There are even more concerns, [...]
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