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Banking On A Bond
The last few months have been tough for those seeking to get a mortgage, be it a residential loan for that all important first home or a buy-to-let mortgage...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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What's Red Hot And Cold Enough In France
The French property market has been a hot topic of late as things turn cold in other markets through the effects of the credit crunch...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Patterns Of Confusion
The house price figures published by Halifax this week may have sent some very mixed messages to those looking to invest in property...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Silver Linings
That there has been a drop in house prices in recent months is largely agreed, even if some surveys, such as the Financial Times House Price Index, have consistently indicated a static picture...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Under Priced, Up For Grabs And Over There
With the credit crunch dominating the news in recent months, much of the focus has been on where the property market has seen a decline, with the US and Ireland being two examples of countries suffering heavily, while the UK and Spanish booms are universally regarded as being over...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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To Fix Or Not To Fix?
Those considering buying investment property who may use a mortgage to do so will most likely have been keeping an eye on the fast-developing mortgage sector in recent times, in which the abundance of choice that was available a year ago has been substantially whittled down...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Hips Hips Hooray?
It is now more than three months since the controversial home information packs (Hips) became mandatory for all homes being sold in Britain...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Country Living - No Thanks?
In a week when much attention has been paid to the issue of eco-homes, including the public backing given to them by ex-deputy prime minister John Prescott at the Chartered Institute of Housing's south-east annual conference and exhibition in Brighton, the question of building and house prices in the country has reared its head again...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Train To Take The Strain In Spain
Those who believe the Spanish market is past its best may be barking up the wrong tree Not because there hasn't been a property market correction, not because there isn't a global credit crisis and not because many investors looking for new hotspots are looking away from the crowded, overdeveloped, been-there-done-that costas, but for another reason...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Demand Still High For Buy-to-let
On the eve of the budget, with those looking at investing in property having one eye on the measures about to emerge from Alistair Darling's red box, news has emerged of further trends which may provide as much useful guidance as the speech in parliament tomorrow...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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No News Today?
Today may have seemed like one of those non-event days, when any excitement and anticipation that existed before the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) delivered its interest rate verdict dissipated at midday when the announcement was made that there would be no change to the base rate...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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How Fast Will Rate Fall?
As interest rate decisions go, today's verdict by the Bank of England monetary policy committee (MPC) was perhaps the most widely predicted for some time...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Hospitality And Cheap Flights The Key To Cyprus, Says Expert
Cyprus has been in the news often enough for its property in recent times, with prices rising and British investors to the fore...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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How Investors Can Alp Themselves
Investors in property looking to make a good return can do so in many locations in France, be it the popular sand and sun resorts of the Cote D'Azur, the wine regions, the hustle and glamour of Paris or the new London commuter belt across the channel that the faster Eurostar may develop...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Wise Buys In Spain
Spain has been written off many times of late The market, many have said, is a busted flush, a one-time hotspot which has now seen the boom fade away and companies that depended upon it folding...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Manchester Buy-to-let Still On The Up, Say Experts
Of all the British cities to see major redevelopment in the past few years, Manchester property has possibly been the most transformed...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Economists Certain Rates Will Be Cut
Those looking at investing in property will doubtless have been paying much attention to the possible movements in the UK base rate...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Crash? What Crash?
Forecasts of doom and gloom in the property market have not been in short supply of late, both for the residential and buy-to-let sectors...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Property Experts Say: It's Not Grim Up North
The decision of the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold yesterday may tempted some to predict more hard times ahead for the property industry...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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It May Be Bargain Time For City Centre Apartments
Those walking around the centre of any provincial city will be able to see a number of new apartment blocks, constructed during the recent housing boom...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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London "To Weather Property Storm"
For the last few years London has been one of the areas pushing UK property inflation the most Whatever the average price rise, London's has been higher, with prime central London areas seeing the biggest booms...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Sherry Good Prospects In Spain
The buy-to-let market, whether in the UK or overseas, is in many respects a series of markets, for the kind of property investors choose to sink their capital into will depend on the potential customer base...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Does Short-term Dip Mean Long Term Cuts?
The UK housing market is in a curious state in many ways After years of high inflation driven by a strong economy and a shortfall in demand, the market has seen a slowdown since the base rate hit 5...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Base Rate Uncertainty May Drag On
The time between the announcement of the monthly decision by the Bank of England's rate-setting monetary policy committee (MPC) and the publication of the minutes is frequently filled with speculation about how the committee might have voted...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Everything In Its Season With Spanish Property
Given the kind of headlines which have emerged with the slowdown in the Spanish property market, one might sense the palpitations experienced by news that property sales in the country are going down by 45 to 50 per cent this winter...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Top Of The Scots
It's now widely accepted that the UK housing market has all but ground to a halt Some believe this is temporary, pessimists believe it will be the beginning of a downward spiral, while others suggest Britain is simply due a fallow period to let things settle down and get back into kilter following years of high inflation in the market
This last view was expressed by Nationwide today, which predicted that over the course of 2007 the country as a whole will have seen house price inflation of 9...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Britons Tunnelling Through To Cheaper Property
It was reputedly Napoleon who first thought of digging a tunnel under the English Channel, the idea being to provide a means for his armies to bypass the sea barrier which had (and still has) protected Britain from a successful full scale invasion since 1066...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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Government Bills Lay Down Housing Marker
The Queen's Speech is always an eagerly awaited occasion, partly for its pomp and ceremony, but mainly, of course, for the interest it draws to the government's legislative programme...
Author: Jim Barnaby - Category: Real Estate
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