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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
How often are we moving? The Nationwide has done some fascinating analysis this month on the changes to the proportion of different movers, together with the time each take to move home. So how many people where you live should be moving at any one time? Is your area more
Property prices are falling in real terms for many - what's happening in your area? Country price summary Versus last month, property prices ‘on average’ have really slowed across all countries. For Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are only just keeping up with inflation – which with over
How do we weather another 12 months or more of uncertainty? With Brexit still an unknown and property becoming a huge political tool to capture votes at the moment, there are many opinions about what will happen next. Unsurprisingly, it can be difficult for consumers to work out what to