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Predictable rents suit both consumers and investors

This trend away from ownership towards renting will continue apace for another decade unless the economy picks up markedly Continue reading

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In the News this Week…

Catch up on this week’s news. Here are our top 5 property and investment stories of the week. 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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Housing Minister Demands More Options for FTB’s

A small glimmer of hope on the horizon for first time buyers (FTB’s) as news from the Council of Mortgage Lender’s (CML) April report shows lending to FTB’s was up 1,100 on the previous month to 15,800. Continue reading

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Oversupply Threatens Half Year Buoyancy

An oversupply of properties in the coming months may depress house prices and wipe out the year’s gains so far, so it is difficult to say whether current house prices will hold to the end of 2011.
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Rental Rates Reach All Time High

In England, it will be a more alarming statistic that the Social Rental Sector has grown by 8.8% in the last year, describing a trend of increasing pressure on Local Authority budgets and Government policy.
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