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- Short-term Holiday Letting Proving Popular - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2007 from Daniel KirbyA growing number of people appear to be turning away from the usual package holidays and traditional hotels when they travel abroad in favour of renting a holiday home for the duration of their stay overseas - creating new opportunities for those looking to invest in foreign property ...
Views: 626 - Cyprus Will Reward Investors, Minister Promises - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2007 from Daniel KirbyCyprus is an area which has seen a lot of change in the past few years, with much of it succeeding to make it an even more attractive destination for Cyprus property investors and holidaymakers alike. After becoming a member of the European Union in 2004, the economy expanded and business ...
Views: 713 - Britons Tunnelling Through To Cheaper Property - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2007 from Daniel KirbyIt 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. Perhaps ironically, then, it is ...
Views: 602 - Government Bills Lay Down Housing Marker - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe 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. As a guide to priorities, the programme announced this week clearly indicates that the government is keen to ...
Views: 677(1 vote) - Immigration And Housing Downturn Spell Good News For Buy-to-let. - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe issues of immigration and housing have been big issues in the news in recent years, with both being bones of contention and debate. In the former case, there has been a split between those who have welcomed the new source of labour coming from eastern Europe, set against those claiming that ...
Views: 578 - Commercial Property - the new investment opportunity - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThe buy-to-let property market has come in for some heavy stick in recent months, with all kinds of negative predictions for the near future. This has been true for the housing market as a whole of course, with the Hometrack survey this week setting alarm bells ringing by showing a 0.1 per cent ...
Views: 768 - Investors beware: Jack Frost cometh - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Daniel KirbyBuy-to-let property investors hold the dubious honour of responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of all of their properties. Tenants are usually unwilling, unable and contractually hamstrung when it comes to repair work, meaning that they are straight on the phone in the event of a ...
Views: 638 - Spain 'to stand the test of time' - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Daniel KirbyAmid all the speculation about the future prospects for the Spanish property market after the slowdown in the past year following the boom, or the recent threat by the Spanish government to demolish illegally-built homes on the coast, some might ask if a more long-term perspective is the best ...
Views: 685 - Slow And Steady Wins The Race? - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2007 from Daniel KirbyIts official: the hare that was the UK housing market has become a tortoise. That the UK Property housing market has been slowing down in the last few months is well known as survey after survey shows lower house price rises, but figures out today suggest it has finally gone into its shell. ...
Views: 650 - Cyprus Offering New Charms - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThere is an old French saying that "the more things change, the more they stay the same". This might be applied to many things, but the Cypriot property market is not one of them. It is an island where there is constant and change in equal measure. What undoubtedly stays the same is the ...
Views: 719 - Will MPC Caution Cause Housing Slump - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2007 from Daniel KirbySince it became clear over the latter weeks and months of the summer that the UK housing boom was slowing down, speculation over interest rate cuts has emerged. What had begun as a question of when rates would rise to six per cent has become first a gradual realisation that the 5.75 per cent ...
Views: 469 - Branding Through Graphic Designs - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2007 from Daniel KirbyGraphic designing is a strategic tool for marketing and communication to the public through visual representations of creative designs and logos. It comprises of creative faculty with superior designing and aesthetic skills studded together in the designer. Critical analysis and sound thinking ...
Views: 688 - Market Variation Emerges In Survey - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2007 from Daniel KirbyThose looking to invest in property may often include those who wish to split a portfolio between the UK and abroad. One of the questions they might well ask is about what differences exist between the different markets. Multiple answers could be given to such a question. In the first ...
Views: 555 - Buy-for-uni Offering Many Options - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2007 from Daniel KirbyOf all the variations on the traditional act of people buying a mortgagesimply as a home to live in themselves, buy-for-uni is a somewhat unusual one. Such a mortgage, which is presently only offered by one building society, works by securing the property bought for the student to live in ...
Views: 816 - Britons Still Looking To Sunny Spain - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2007 from Daniel KirbyPessimists writing about the Spanish property market have questioned the strength of the market many times in the last couple of years, following a period of unprecedented boom. Some have seen the subsequent market slowdown as the prelude to a crash. Others have seen it simply as a necessary ...
Views: 574 - Buy-to-let Keeps On Growing - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2007 from Daniel KirbyDespite all the claims that buy-to-let's doomsday was just around the corner, investors are continuing to defy the pessimistic pundits and enter the market, new evidence has shown. The number of buy-to-let mortgages rose by 37 per cent in the year to August 2007, according to the latest ...
Views: 552 - Boom Times Ahead For Buy-to-let, Says Rics - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2007 from Daniel KirbyRecent reports on the UK property market indicate that house price rises are slowing down and in some areas, they are even beginning to fall. Nationwide and Hometrack have both released data showing that this is true of vast swathes of the UK. Yesterday, a Halifax report concluded that prices ...
Views: 682 - Easier To Make Money On Overseas Property, Expert Claims. - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2007 from Daniel KirbyProspective buy-to-let investors may be interested to know that a leading property industry website is advising newcomers to the market to consider looking at buying overseas property . According to BuyAssociation, the present financial climate means that there can be more money made ...
Views: 619 - Buy-to-let Stands While Housing Market Falls - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2007 from Daniel KirbyMore information has emerged today to demonstrate the contrast between the buy-to-let UK property market and the residential house buying market. The ability of buy-to-let to withstand a housing downturn or even slump has been questioned, although Ray Boulger of John Charcol said this week the ...
Views: 847 - Cape Verde Promises Long Seasons In The Sun - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2007 from Daniel KirbyAmong all the island paradises where British tourists may wish to go, the Cape Verde holiday home is emerging as one of the most attractive. Much nearer than the Maldives and not prone to seasonal storms like the Caribbean, the archipelago off the coast of west Africa, a former Portuguese ...
Views: 738 - London Still Promising Capital Gains - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2007 from Daniel KirbyFor years London has seemed like the best and worst of the property market. On the one hand, it has been at the centre of the biggest bang in the loud boom of the UK housing market, with London property prices comfortably outstripping the national average and soaring astronomically in the ...
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