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Our experts on residential property investment and development share their thoughts on what’s happening in the sector
Proposed Leasehold & Freehold Bill Valuation proposals - a viewpoint. Whenever a Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers the annual budget, it is often best to avoid the excitement of the day and look at the detail the following morning when the dust has settled. The same could be said of...
After many years in the property industry I thought it time to reflect on my experiences and the people I have met. The young estate agent: a raging mess of hormones and...
INVESTMENT CONCLUSION The UK housing bubble is a myth. Current price declines are principally function of Brexit-related uncertainty. While you’d have to be mad to buy until this...
With stamp duty rates crippling the London residential market, many investors have naturally been looking to areas further afield. A lot of articles in the press have focused on...
Who will be the winners in the “broken estate agency” market? We know that the current and foreseeable UK macro property market position lacks stability with Brexit,...
UK real estate transactions being undertaken by GCC investors which we commonly hear about include the acquisition of high end residential property (Chelsea and Knightsbridge)...
What the journals are saying Knowledge is power, or so the cliché goes. But knowledge is much more than that, it is influence, it is authority, it is credibility. Property...
In August, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) published its latest in a line of reports documenting the continued rise in threat to our Green Belts. Our research shows...
In my last article, I suggested it was difficult for Housing policy to be considered in any coherent fashion when there had been 16 Housing Ministers in the last 20 years, an...
When asked by a journalist why she had a mirror above her bed, Mae West answered, ‘to see how I’m doing.’ The same applies to property indices: owners, buyers, lenders and...