Tag: property value

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Parking spaces cost more than many homes in London

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Car parking spaces in plush Knightsbridge are selling for more than the average price of a house in the rest...

Quick guide to property surveys and valuations

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buying a home or investing in a letting property are important financial decisions, but many buyers fall in to the...

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Property investors mount Inside Track legal challenge

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property investors are set to challenge collapsed property firms Inside Track and Instant Access Properties over misselling...

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Loophole that beats HMRC’s IHT tax grab

Author: This article was written by guest author - Steve Sims

7th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Taxpayers who have fallen foul of HM Revenue and Customs policy of checking out property valuations targeting larger inheritance tax...

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Falling house prices expected to stabilise later this year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The Halifax House Price Index shows that house prices are continuing to fall slowly but signs of “moderate improvement” in...

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Stop property boom and bust, urges housing task force

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

More affordable homes need building and the government must get to grips with tough tax reforms to burst the property...

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Property ‘cash machines’ are out of money, warns banker

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Drawing money from a property ‘cash machine’ is over and home owners will have to live within their means, a...

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HMO planning u-turn challenged in High Court

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Councils protesting at how Housing Minster Grant Shapps reversed house in multiple occupation planning rules have started a legal challenge...

My 1,000th post on my favourite Property Forum

Author: Mark Alexander

8th March 2011, 16 years ago | 0

The following is an extract from my 1,000th discussion on Property Tribes (my favourite property forum). I asked the members...

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Surveys can knock £1,800 off the price of a home

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Property investors have a cavalier attitude to home valuations that often unnecessarily leads them with a bill for putting right...

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85% LTV buy to let is back!

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 16 years ago | 2

Somebody had to be first to do it but who would have expected it to be Kensington Mortgages?

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House prices soar 91% in 10 years despite credit crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Despite the credit crisis and recession, house prices have almost doubled in the past 10 years, according to mortgage lender...

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Bank mortgage lending plunges to 1999 levels

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Bank  mortgage lending slumped to the lowest for more than a decade  during December as the housing market stalled.

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Councils take Shapps to court over HMO U-turn

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2011, 16 years ago | 1

Councils protesting about a government U-turn over shared house planning laws have won the right to challenge the ruling in...

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Commercial property starts the year on a high

Author: Mark Alexander

11th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Commercial investors are celebrating average property values increasing by 8.9% and returns of 16.1% for 2010.

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The roots of my Property Investment Strategy

Author: Mark Alexander

17th December 2010, 16 years ago | 24

“I measure my business related success by how much I improve my cashflow and my bank balance every year.” The...

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Would you refinance off a rate of 2.25% onto a rate of 5%?

Author: Mark Alexander

14th December 2010, 16 years ago | 0

As a stand alone question, the logical answer would be ‘of course not!”.  However, some landlords are doing this and...

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The next generation of property investors

Author: Mark Alexander

13th December 2010, 16 years ago | 4

By Mark Alexander. The next generation of property investors will: Have good jobs and surplus income Have plenty of equity...

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Student lettings are in a class of their own

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd December 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Business is booming for student landlords as rents, property values and returns are all increasing. The average student landlord benefitted...

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The History of Buy to Let Sale and Rent Back

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 16 years ago | 6

By Mark Alexander. I closed my first Sale and Rent Back, “SARB”, deal in 1990. It wasn’t for me personally...

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Florida Property PART ONE – Mark Alexander, will spend the next three weeks in the Sunshine State investigating opportunities following the spectacular collapse in Florida property values

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 16 years ago | 1

Perhaps one of the Worlds most spectacular property market crashes of recent years has been in the areas surrounding Disneyworld...