Tag: Housing market

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Homes Drop in Value by £131 Billion in Five Years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

An eye-watering £131 billion has been wiped off the value of homes in the UK over the past five years,...

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Bank of England Agents’ summary of business conditions December 2011

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st December 2011, 15 years ago | 2

The Bank of England Agents’ summary of business conditions December 2011 has been released, reporting a “softening housing market”. First...

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Auction Homes Sell for 40% Below Market Value

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Home prices at auction sales are almost 40% less than average property prices reported by major mortgage lenders. November figures...

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What does the Future Hold for Buy to Let?

Author: Angus Ryan

19th December 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Why Property? Over the last 30 years UK property prices have achieved average compound growth of approximately 10% each year...

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Santander Joins Buy to Let Mortgage Frenzy

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th December 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Santander has joined the buy to let lending frenzy with a range of purchase and remortgage deals for landlords. The...

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House prices in Scotland Unmoved

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices in Scotland have remained fairly constant, offering only small rises for larger properties and slight drops in smaller...

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Period Homes Give Investors the Best Returns

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors looking for homes with the best capital growth should look for homes built before the end of the...

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Britain in Denial Over Possibility of Falling House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Two-thirds of people believe house prices will not drop next year despite warnings from banks and governments that the global...

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Islamic Bank Offers Buy to Let Loans for First Time

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th December 2011, 15 years ago | 5

Islamic Bank of Britain has joined the throng as the latest lender to offer buy to let mortgages to landlords....

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1 in 7 Homes a Buy to Let … and the Number’s Growing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of buy to let properties has increased by 756,000 homes since 2007, according to the latest government housing...

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What if the PRS didn’t exist?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 5

By Guest Columnist Ben Reeve-Lewis I work for a council in London. I’m the landlord’s nemesis, the bogey man, a...

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Developers can’t afford to build – the consequences?

Author: Mark Alexander

23rd November 2011, 15 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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Build-to-let Will Solve Britain’s Housing Needs, MPs Told

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Build-to-let funded by private investors and pension funds is the solution to the UK’s housing crisis, housing lobbyists have told...

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Desperate Home Sellers Ready to Agree Deep Discounts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Desperate sellers are ready to accept knock-down prices on homes for sale as financial problems and a lack of mortgages...

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Buy to Let Landlords Snubbed Under New Housing Deal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Government has launched a make-or-break housing strategy designed to boost the economy, create jobs and help people buy homes...

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Housing Strategy Key Points

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2011, 15 years ago | 3

The much awaited Government housing strategy was unveiled today with many seeing it not as the “radical and unashamedly ambitious...

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EU Trying To Kill Buy To Let – sign the petition to STOP it now.

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 15 years ago | 100

The buy to let market will grind to a halt if EU proposals to change the way lenders hand out...

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Britain’s Looming Housing Crisis

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 15 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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Buy to Let Landlords are Snapping Up More Big City Properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 25% of landlords have invested in more buy to let property this year, says the Association of Residential Letting...

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Buy to Let Lenders Forget to Mention the Missing Link

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let mortgage lending is going from strength to strength, according to industry trade body the Council of Mortgage...

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Britain Set to Become a Nation of Home Renters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th November 2011, 15 years ago | 0

More people will rent than buy their home in 15 years as attitudes to letting change, says Grainger, Britain’s biggest...