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Are service charges a curse or a blessing?

by Calum Watson | Jan 17, 2018 | Residential Investor

Someone far more erudite than me once described service charges as being like batteries – no-one likes paying for them, but when you don’t, things cease to function quite quickly. A common source of angst between landlord and leaseholder, disputes about the...

The politics of residential property investment

by Ian Fletcher | Oct 3, 2017 | The Guest Essay

With the season behind us, now is a good a time to consider what we gleaned from this year’s political party conferences in Bournemouth, Brighton and Manchester, and the implications for residential property investors. Aside from the usual political theatre, there...

Housing is now at the top of the political agenda

by Adrian Pepper | Jul 26, 2017 | Political Insider

Six months ago, building new homes for the British was heralded as one of the great crusades of Theresa May’s Conservative government. A housing green paper published in February led on the theme of looking after Generation Rent, with ministers quietly acknowledging...

London property faces a bear market in 2018

by Matein Khalid | Jul 17, 2017 | The Macro View

Prime London home prices (Mayfair, Kensington, Belgravia, Chelsea) are now down 20% from their pre-Brexit peaks. Theresa May’s general election gamble and the surprising success of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has negatively impacted foreign investor...

Cliff edges and slippery slopes: tough times lie ahead for the UK

by Adrian Pepper | Jun 23, 2017 | Political Insider

For a whole week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been out and about on the airwaves of the United Kingdom, attempting to talk up the prospect of a long transitional period for the UK-EU relationship after the UK’s membership of the EU lapses in March 2019. By...