Recent Articles in First Time Buyer Property Checklists

What housing policies will support First Time Buyers? Buy to Let Investors? Renters? Social tenants? Council Waiting Lists?
Apr 30, 2015

So you know who is saying and proposing what at this election on housing, I’ve done a comprehensive assessment of all the housing policies proposed at this election and what they mean to you – if you are a Buy to Let investor, a First time buyer, Renovator, Renting as a tenant and in or wanting to enter social housing.

What's happening in your town this month?
Apr 28, 2015

The problem with looking at ‘averages’ at a high level is that property prices are so diverse from one street to the next, they are unlikely to make any sense to people locally. As such we look at data by town and city to gauge what variations there are across the country.

Kate's property update for the UK regions
Apr 27, 2015

It's important to know what's going on in the different area of the UK as prices vary from region to region. Clearly houses will cost more in the South East of England than the North of Scotland.

Kate's April property price update with Data from Nationwide and Acadata
Apr 27, 2015

 We take little notice of month on month and even year on year analysis as few people ‘trade’ properties in this way and it’s not necessarily the best indicator of when is a good time to buy or sell. What we are more interested in is tracking long term trends and seeing whether these continue or are changing and then working out the impact on different market sectors. For example falling prices can be good news for first time buyers and those trading up, but not people trading down.

How to find a real below market value deal
Apr 23, 2015

I must get three to four below market value deals every day coming into my inbox. They are constantly offering “22% BMV” or “discounted deals” and I’ve done the analysis on many of these to see if they stack up – unfortunately my findings are they rarely do.