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Why Now Is The Right Time to Buy Property
As an estate agent, property investor and author
of books on buying and selling, I am often asked whether now is the most
lucrative time to buy property or whether it is best to wait until prices hit
rock bottom. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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UK Housing Crash Has Ended
Good news indeed. But before we all crack open
the champagne … this statement comes from Britain’s largest bank, HSBC, who
seem intent on rallying homebuyers to rush into applying for one of their new
range of mortgages. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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House Repossession Hotspots Announced by Government
The UK Government has released its definitive
list of the top 22 repossession hotspots. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The Dangers of Property Investment
Investing in property has become a global
phenomenon and, some might say, an obsession amongst those foolish enough to
believe they can make an easy and fast buck. While some succeed, others fall
foul of the gremlins commonly known as greed and naivety. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Sell Your House Faster
As an estate agent helping vendors sell property
over many years, it often surprises me how many homeowners make the same
mistakes over and over again. By putting in some time
and effort prior to marketing, a home will often sell faster and for more
money. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The Mortgage Maze: Fixed Rate Deals
There was a time not so long ago when the man on
the street could appreciate and understand the two or three different types of
mortgage available. These days there are more mortgage product variants than there are
choices of beverage down at your local coffee shop. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Scotland Leads the UK Housing Market Recovery
Figures now show
some consistency in rising house values across the UK.
Dare we start breathing a sigh of relief that the worst of the credit crunch is
now over? Well, maybe, and property investors might want to start taking a close look at what Scotland has
to offer. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Climbing the Property Ladder by Buying at Auction
There
was a time when property
investors could buy a house and then sit back and wait for its
capital value to soar. Those days have gone, sadly, which means it is
now important
to buy at below market value – and invariably that means buying
from a property auction. To read more, click on the article heading or
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Wham! Bam! What a Property Scam
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has identified
bogus property investment schemes amongst the top ten scams that target UK
consumers. All the scams they examined had one overriding objective – to
relieve property investors of their hard earned cash. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Where in The UK Would I Buy Property?
The UK housing crash has upset a lot of the
predictions made a couple of years ago, but there’s still one location for
exciting property investment that I would definitely sink my hard earned money
into. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Save Yourself From Excessive Property Inheritance Tax
It was Benjamin Franklin that coined the
phrase, ‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death
and taxes.’ While this remains as true now as it was back then, there are often
ways to delay them – and
sometimes it's possible to avoid the latter completely. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Are Self Cert Mortgages About to Die?
The Financial Services Authority are expected to ban
Self Certified Mortgages from the UK market. Fears are also growing
over the likelihood of similar announcements to tighten the regulations for
buy-to-let and other landlord, property investor and self-employed mortgages. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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UK Property Market is Back In Business
The most recent statistics confirm house prices
are rising again at last. It seems the property market has finally turned a
corner and is heading once again in the right direction. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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For Sale Board Secrets Revealed
We all know how essential and influential For
Sale boards are to property selling and we can now
tap-in to the ‘up and down’ performance statistics of estate agent flag boards, which
in turn tell us just how the property market is changing at grass roots level. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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What the Flip is Flipping?
Flipping is a property investment strategy that
made some people a great deal of money during the boom years – and caused
others to lose a fortune. It became a dangerous preoccupation of serious
speculators, some of whom
ran laughing all the way to the bank. To read more, click on the article heading or image. |
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Fantastic iPhone Local House Price Checker
Searching for a new home just got a whole lot
easier, thanks to a brilliant little application that potential buyers and
estate agents can now download straight to their iPhone for little more than
the cost of a loaf of bread. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Bye Bye HIPs
HIPs
are no more. In May 2010 the new coilition government suspended Home
Information Packs (HIPs), which means property sellers no longer need
to supply a HIP before putting their homes on the open market. The
announcement comes ahead of parliamentary action to abolish the
legislation completely. |
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Property Sellers and Energy Performance Certificates
Home Information Pack (HIP) legislation may have
been scrapped in 2010, but anyone that puts their house up for sale will still
need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) from the first day of advertising
it on the market. Learn more about EPCs here, find out how to get one and how much it might cost you. |
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