UK's Private Rental Sector expected to grow

The UK housing riddle...”nearly half of all owner-occupiers have no mortgage” Read More...
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Overseas buyers & London

Overseas buyers find London to be a relative bargain. Should investors even care what prices are doing? Or are predictions about house prices really noise rather than the important signal an investor needs to hear?

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More home loans, higher interest rates

The UK home loan market set to expand but the cost of financing will be rising in 2010 Read More...
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Post dinner re-cap

Over dinner we discuss the interest rate horizon. How to stress test a portfolio so you can weather the coming rise in rates. Read More...
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Upad.co.uk

I spent the afternoon discussing the UK BTL rental market with James Davis, founder of upad.co.uk Read More...
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HMO Daddy Speaks

At the Hampshire Property Networking event Jim Haliburton spoke. Jim goes by the label or title, HMO Daddy. He has been in the HMO sector for a long time. Read More...
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UK Treasury - Interbank lending problems until 2013

“The [UK] Treasury quietly conceded yesterday that the crisis undermining banks' ability to borrow from each other and from financial institutions could last for five years.
In fact, it's likely that banks' ability to borrow on wholesale markets will never recover to the boom conditions that characterised the few years before the summer of 2007.”
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Mortgage interest relief for UK homeowners in default

A new UK government program to help borrowers who cannot keep up with their mortgage payment because of job loss or other temporary problems. For up to two years the government will pay or guarantee the interest element of the monthly payment. Read More...
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