Renting v buying – how do we compare with Europe?
Renting v buying – how do we compare with Europe? I often hear people say that young people in the UK worry too much about getting onto the property ladder. Why not be more like some of our European neighbours, who are happy to rent for their entire lifetimes without feeling robbed? What are the […]
Why isn’t Help to Buy working in the Capital?
Prospective buyers have had a raw deal in the capital in the last few years. After the crunch, lenders required deposits of at least 15%. With house prices in the capital heading ever upwards, it wasn’t worth bothering considering purchasing if you had less than £50,000 saved, when you took the additional costs like solicitors […]
How will you be affected by these crazy house price increases in London?
I was reading about the 10% surge in house prices in the month of October alone! This can’t be right, can it? Yet, the stories I am hearing from my Estate Agent friends and my clients looking to buy substantiates this very worrying truth. I heard a story where a two bedroom flat in South […]
House prices are about supply and demand.
I was reading about the 10% surge in house prices in London in the month of October alone! This can’t be right, can it? Yet, the stories I am hearing from my Estate Agent friends and my clients looking to buy substantiates this very worrying truth. I heard a story where a two bedroom flat in […]
Q & A on today’s mortgage market
Q: Where do you see house prices heading in London and the South-East? A: We are certainly in the middle of a house price boom, however, I do not think boom will turn to bust any time soon. The reason for this is because there is much more demand than supply in the capital at […]
