Category: Property Finance
Price Gap For London Property Remains Evident
For sale – A newly converted Victorian terraced house on Pont Street in Knightsbridge, one of London’s most coveted neighborhoods. Harrods is around the corner, the stylish department store Harvey Nichols just a little further along. The triplex is expected to sell for about £6.15 million. For sale – A small terraced house on Pont [...]
Overseas Investments – A Great Way To Diversify Your Portfolio
The overseas property market is now more accessible than ever. What’s more, holding real estate in foreign countries can be a great way to diversify your portfolio if you want to invest in property, but don’t want further exposure to the trials and tribulations of the UK economy. The state of the domestic economy and [...]
Property Investments – Increasing Your Homes Saleability
New data from Hometrack has revealed that the average property investment now sits on the market for 9 and ½ weeks before getting a viewing. And this is sad news for property owners with the winter months fast approaching… Winter is notorious for slowing down property sales as buyers focus on trying to get past [...]
Why You Should Invest In Commercial Real Estate
While the residential real estate market has been in a slump for quite some time now, the commercial real estate market continues to thrive for a number of reasons. Real estate has always been, and still is a great long-term investment. Here are 5 reasons why investing in a commercial property is an excellent choice [...]
Q & A – JON Purr – Ex Investment Banker Gives An Insight Into Making Money From Property
JON Purr (pic), a former investment banker at Barclay’s bank in UK, has been working for the finance sector for around ten years. Seven years ago, he moved to Singapore to deal with property-related investments, and has been in this field ever since. Within five years, he and a partner set up Qudoss, a Singapore-based [...]
Eurozone Crisis Helps Boost Prices For London’s Luxury Homes
Luxury homes for sale in England are becoming more expensive because of the Eurozone crisis, research has found. Reports from estate agent Knight Frank have shown that as a result of the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, the house prices of UK prime property, particularly in London, has increased. London luxury home prices rose by [...]
August Records An Increase In Mortgage Approval
The number of new mortgages approved, but not yet lent, for home buyers in August rose to its highest level since December 2009. The Bank of England said 52,410 mortgages were approved last month. That was nearly three thousand more than in July, and the highest number since December 2009. The figures suggest that a [...]
“Mansion Tax” – Tax For The “Super Rich”??
At the Labour Conference this week, there’s been a lot of noise about taxing the wealthy more. Ed Miliband was visibly animated about proposals to scrap the 50p rate in his speech just this afternoon and Ed Balls has been making similar noises. This all follows on from Liberal Democrat Conference last week, where they [...]
Lending Hits Two Year High But Property Markets Remain “Subdue”
Mortgage lending hit a two-year high in August, but lenders today warned the eurozone debt crisis threatens to squeeze the amount of money available to homeowners. Gross mortgage lending rose 10 per cent on a year ago to £13.4 billion, its highest since July 2009, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said. But the property market [...]
Experts – 54,000 Buyers Are “Left Hanging” In The First Six Months
Over the years, the ups and downs of the property market have spawned a whole host of perplexing terms. Now experts have coined another to add to the lexicon – gazanging. The term is used to describe when a buyer is ‘left hanging’ as a seller pulls the plug on a deal at the last [...]
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