Recent Articles in Tenant and Landlord Property Checklists

Will Brexit crash the property market?
Mar 8, 2019

I was the 'midnight expert' on  BBC's 5Live between Wednesday and Thursday with the fabulous Phil Williams and, as always, in between the sport and news updates we managed to chat about the property market - especially chatting about the impact of Brexit on today's and the future market. But  I also answered questions on shared ownership,  should first time buyers invest first, are lenders adding additional monies to your outgoings, is it better to buy a property with a mortgage or with cash, and genuinely hopefully pointing buyers, sellers, renters and investors in the right direction. 

Kate's comprehensive property price update for February 2019 - data from the UK house price index
Mar 7, 2019

Nearly all the indices are now heading to a ‘zero’ increase year on year, bar UK HPI which measures the market some months behind the rest. These figures would normally relate to ‘talk’ in the media of a house price crash, but as most of the reports point out, the market is surprisingly resilient considering the level of uncertainty, not just from Brexit but this month from a poor economic performance.

Soft or hard landing for the Property Market in 2019?
Mar 7, 2019

While Theresa May seems to be battling for a soft or hard Brexit, the property market this year could go one of three ways...

In some areas over 40% of people think they can afford to buy their first home on their own
Feb 4, 2019

New research released by the Nottingham Building Society (The Nottingham) has revealed that first-time buyers in the East Midlands and Scotland are the most likely to buy alone when purchasing their first property.

Mortgage rejection? How can you make sure this doesn’t happen to you?
Jan 28, 2019

New research from Which? Mortgage Advisers (Which?) has found that nearly 17% of mortgage holders responding to a survey has had a mortgage application rejected at some point or another.