How savvy are the UK's teenagers when it comes to buying a home? With much of the press regularly reporting that it’s impossible for youngster’s to get on the housing ladder today, I thought it would be interesting to see what teenagers in my local area
Checklists Checklist provided by www.propertychecklists.co.uk Blocked or broken drains aren’t just a nightmare for tenants who have to deal with nasty smells and even nastier bacteria. They’re also a headache for landlords. Follow this checklist for tips on how you can avoid the issue and
Checklists Checklist provided by www.johnhowardproperty.com So you want to make money from property? One of the best ways to do this is buying land or a project and developing it, but it's not easy to do, it takes time, a lot of expertise and it'
Checklists Checklist provided by www.propertychecklists.co.uk Make sure you keep all your relevant property data organised in one place Track which properties are in private ownership and which are in limited company ownership Track which properties are in your name, which are in your partner's name
Time to replace licensing with a Property MOT - let's look after tenants, not keep failing them! A while ago I started, on behalf of The Lettings Industry Council, to look at how well licensing was working, and at that point was fairly happy to remain neutral on
Summary of latest rental report from Zoopla BIG NEWS STORY: Rental affordability is ‘spot on’, not that you’d know that from the headlines! The real story from the rental report is that all the headlines accusing ‘greedy landlords’ and ‘letting agents’ of charging extortionate rent and rents ‘sky rocketing’
A return to a more sustainable pace of price growth? National price summary The best chart from all the reports this month comes from LSL Property Services/Acadata. It clearly shows how house price growth has pretty much disappeared ‘nationally’ since the heady days of 2015 - both in London
The impact on the property market of elections, recessions and latest forecasts At the recent Property Investor Show I made two presentations, one covering the changes to the property market during elections and recessions, and another discussing the latest forecasts for both the next twelve months and the next few
Properties are more affordable today than 12 years ago - why aren't we telling people? I never quite understand why many property companies and much of the media think that only ‘bad news’ stories about property sell. I also don’t understand why very few property companies, charities
You can now request the homes you want in your area Up until the credit crunch, in the main, agents could make a good living from just letting and selling property that came ‘through the door’ - even if it was a digital one. The market then crashed. Prices fell
Why buyers' and sellers' decisions need to be based on local expert advice National price summary Looking at the market up and down the country, different areas are at different stages of the property cycle. According to Nationwide “Surveyors report that new buyer enquiries have increased a little,
Latest London market report - falling or Brexit bounce? Latest news from the Land Registry shows what an amazingly diverse market property is in London. With average prices ranging from just under £300,000 in Barking and Dagenham to an astonishing £1,254,715 in Kensington and Chelsea. What’s