Checklists Checklist provided by www.belvoir.co.uk Incentivise Selling a rental property with a tenant in situ can be a challenge. Tenants are entitled to live their lives as they wish, and although you can ask them not to smoke in a property, or cause damage, you cannot dictate
Buy to Let Show - YOUR recipe for investment success The Buy to Let Show is the only programme which gives you all the information you need, whether you are thinking about buy to let for the first time, or are an existing investor and landlord. Presented by Kate Faulkner
What is the role of the Bank of Mum and Dad? On Tuesday 2nd May I was on Radio 4 You and Yours with Winifred Robinson chatting about the Bank of Mum and Dad, they had some great case studies so well worth a listen, to find out how other
What are we being promised on housing? For some reason, I didn’t realise the political parties had published their manifestos but I was prompted to take a closer look by a comment from Labour about housing. But then this seemed to be ‘trumped’ (sorry) by You Know Who and
Are you ready for the buy-to-let show? * Six 25 minute long episodes on buy to let * Property expert Kate Faulkner hosts segments looking at topics such as purchasing, letting and exiting a Buy to Let * Variety of special guests * Released on Sunday, 7th May, at 11am A new six-part online
Do we need to worry about the snap election? Grrrr. There I was about to ‘settle’ down to a nice few months of writing projects, doing the odd interview here and there and looking forward to some ‘quiet time’ in the property market. Then bam! A general election… really? We
Estate agents need to adapt and survive Despite a slowing market, and misleading headlines about house price crashes, I’m happy to report that people’s confidence doesn’t seem to be eroded by reports of a fall in property price growth. This is good news, because low confidence can
What's happening in the East Midlands? UK HPI sold data – January 17 House prices have been pretty strong from the start of the year and some reports have hailed the East Midlands as the best performing region. However, it’s important to bear in mind that we are
First-time buyer activity buoyant! What are the indices saying about first-time buyers? Here's what the various property price indices are saying about first-time buyers but remember national average prices are often misleading. NAEA Propertymark “Sales to first-time-buyers dipped in February” Connells Group “First-time buyers surge as lull in
FTBS, agent issues, leaseholders - have we answered your question? Every week I co-host LBC Property Hour alongside Clive Bull and by now we have answered hundreds of questions. Below are a few of them which come up time and again so take a look and see if we have
This week’s Property Hour featured our special guest Jane King and, as usual, was run by the awesome Clive Bull, thanks to support from Direct Line Landlord Insurance. We answered plenty of questions on the last show of the series and I’ve featured the Q&As below
Each week I am co-host of the LBC Property Hour. It’s kindly sponsored by Direct Line Landlord Insurance and the main man running the show is legendary host Clive Bull. Our guest this week was Patrick Connelly of Chase de Vere. And to make sure as many people as