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Skipping town

by Charlie Ellingworth | Nov 2, 2020 | Residential Investor

A future with less need to commute is making country life more feasible, and rural estate agents’ phones are ringing off the hook. “At the beginning of the plague, when there was now no more hope but that the whole city would be visited; when all that had friends or...

America heads for home

by Pamela Boneham | Oct 19, 2020 | Head Of Research, zOurWriters1

US home sales are soaring, and even renters now favour suburban units with ample space for home-working. Should urban landlords be worried? A growing trend in the US housing market is the search for more space, light and air. It is evidenced by increased US...

Housing value worldwide: what’s happening?

by Alfred Sadek | Oct 12, 2020 | Residential Investor

Considering that the present crisis is likely to burst inflated bubbles, it’s especially relevant to look at overvalued assets now. The first chart below compares the current housing market in various countries around the world. Using data from the OECD Economic...

What are volumes in Prime Central London residential property telling us?

by Andrew Monteath | May 15, 2018 | Head Of Research

Those of you that have invested in the equity markets might remember the late Richard Crossley. Prior to his untimely death almost seven years ago, Richard was an “old school” technical analyst; always at his desk by 6.30am, he spent the morning pouring over hundreds...

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...