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Developers can’t afford to build – the consequences?

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd November 2011, 14 years ago | 4

Landlord’s Log, the Personal Blog Of Mark Alexander, the Founder of Property118 Earlier this week a comment was left on...

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p155ing into the wind – Housing Strategy

Author: Mark Alexander

21st November 2011, 14 years ago | 4

Today the government announced a new initiative to provide 100,000 new low cost homes over the next four years creating...

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Britain’s Looming Housing Crisis

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 14 years ago | 3

With people living longer and with less people per household, it is pretty obvious that more housing is needed. But...

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Student Housing Demand Dries Up in Some Areas

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st October 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Speculative developers looking to cash in on the student housing boom have been warned numbers of halls of residence have...

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Banks Pull the Plug on Lending for Student Housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th October 2011, 15 years ago | 9

The great rush for student lettings may be ending for the big corporate developers due to fears of over exposure...

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Introducing LandlordSOS

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Raising finance for property investment/development, dealing with the council and how to make money from buy to let are some...

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Gifts and Discounts to Tempt Property Investors

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Desperate property sellers are flirting with some extravagant discount offers to attract cash-rich buyers. The latest ploy is a ‘buy...

Five students chase every university bed space in London

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

London student rents are rising as students besieging accommodation providers outstrips the supply of available properties. The capital has just...

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Don’t make renting a home a life sentence, say under 30’s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The shameful state of Britain’s housing market is revealed in a new poll of attitudes to renting carried out by...

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Corporate property investors pump cash in to student housing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Big student housing developments are still continuing apace despite finance problems squeezing the rest of the residential property investment market.

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Mark Alexander’s interview with Paul Spriggins – UK Holiday Lets investor/developer

Author: Mark Alexander

24th January 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Paul Spriggins In this interview Paul explains how he develops brick and tile UK holiday park homes, sells them for £71,000,...

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Sell or hold after completing a refurbishment?

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd January 2011, 15 years ago | 14

This question was recently asked on a property forum and inspired me to write this post. A spreadsheet could be...

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University cities are running out of student digs

Author: Mark Alexander

1st November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Many of Britain’s leading university cities are running out of accommodation for students, according to a report by a leading...

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Don’t Wait……..Develop it Now!! Say our partners specialising in property development finance

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

We speak to many property developers who tell us that they are not doing any new developments now, “because the...

Is your property portfolio ownership structure optimised to enable you to pay the minimum amount of CGT, income tax and IHT?

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 14

In this article I look at the differences between owning property as joint tenants, tenants in common or as individuals....

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Brokers break the banks for mortgage choice. PR based report from Trigold Crystal, a software company providing mortgage sourcing software for brokers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Independent mortgage advisers have thousands more loan products to choose from across the market than direct providers like banks and...

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Don’t bank on the high street lenders to finance your business. The Chief Executive of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers speaks out following a survey of members regarding the true state of the market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors and small businesses are finding problems borrowing as banks and finance institutions have slashed lending by about £13...