Monthly Archives: October 2011

8 Radical Solutions to the Housing Crisis?

The volume of mortgage approvals has fallen to 40% of 2006/07 levels. It is no surprise that the volume of house building has suffered accordingly, as mortgages have always been the primary source of funding for housing supply.

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First Time Buyer Show highlights housing scheme

First Time Buyers need all the help they can get, and we don’t just mean in terms of legal and financial advice. Not everyone will fit into the FirstBuy government scheme.

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Local Authorities and other Pension Funds consider Investment into Residential

It’s good to see that more and more Local Authorities and other pension funds and investors are considering investment in residential housing in London as a key part of their overall pensions strategy. Continue reading

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Investors in Homes in the Sunday Times

By Ruth Bloomfield. With the average age of the first-time buyer heading, apparently inexorably, towards 40, there is no shortage of schemes to help people onto the first rung of the housing ladder. Until now, however, they have been almost exclusively for new-build homes and are often only for those on smaller incomes.

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