Is now the time to buy up north? is capital growth on the way?

According to the ONS (Office for National Statistics) the house price ‘north-south’ divide has narrowed.   Property prices in the north west of England have pushed on strongly, whilst prices in London (and parts of the South East) have stalled and, in patches, have even fallen back a bit.   So, as a consequence, the…

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Property Prices April Fool Part Two

In my last post I talked about how the media can influence market confidence and how media coverage of the property market seems more positive now than it has been for a long time. As example I quoted the Daily Express of 1st April which reported that the Centre for Economics and Business Research is…

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Buy to Let Investors Optimistic About 2013

According to research released by Paragon Mortgages in February, 76% of landlords surveyed are optimistic about the prospects for the Private Rented Sector in 2013, with 41% expecting tenant demand to increase. Perhaps not surprisingly then 15% of landlords expect to buy more buy to let properties in 2013. Of those responding to the survey…

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Tenants Staying in Buy to Let Properties For Longer

According to research by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) the average length of a tenant’s stay in a buy to let property has increased from 19 months in Q1 2012 to 20 months today. This is the longest period recorded so far. Almost 57% of ARLA agents report that there are more tenants…

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Is Southampton Really the UK’s Buy to Let Hotspot?

Well, according to research from HSBC, it is, with average gross buy to let yields of 7.82%. Now, I have to say, I’m not sure how HSBC conducted their research. The inference from the press release seems to be that they looked at yields in the locations where there is the greatest proportion of rented…

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More Property Price Predictions for 2015

We all know that trying to predict will happen is a mugs game, nobody really knows and, in my opinion, if they turn out to be right, chances are they just had a lucky guess! But as property investors, especially those of us with existing portfolios, it makes sense to keep an eye on what…

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2015 is going to be a cr@p year – part 5

In this short series of post we’ve looked at a simple, but often overlooked, system to plan for success, which we can use to plan for 2015 to be our best year (in property) ever. Because the simple truth is that, unless we start to plan for success in 2015 now, the chances are that…

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