Recent Articles in Property prices and rents

Is Manchester a viable property investment opportunity?
Dec 14, 2015

According to a recent report from Savills, “Manchester needs at least a further three million square feet of office space and almost 100,000 new homes over the next decade to meet rising demand". So if Manchester is a potential hot spot for property, is it just a matter of buying any property you can and keeping your fingers crossed that it will deliver a great return?

Recent changes to property taxation and their impact on buy to let
Dec 7, 2015

Following the Summer Budget and the recent Autumn Statement, Buy-to-Let Landlords may be feeling under attack from the Chancellor who appears intent on making Buy-to-Let investment a less attractive proposition in the future. Here the great guys at Nicholsons take a look at the real impact

First time buyers need to save just £80-100 a month to buy their first home
Nov 9, 2015

With the new Help to Buy ISA coming online from 1st December 2015, if you are keen to buy in the next three or even four years, it is worth starting to save now.

Will 2016 be the year of the first time buyer?
Nov 9, 2015

George Osborne and the Conservative government have declared they intend to drive up home ownership and will pretty much do whatever they can to help those who are keen to get on the housing ladder, to do so. Here's how it works...

How are the forecasters doing against actual property prices for 2015?
Nov 5, 2015

The latest data is now in for the third quarter of this year, so I thought it would be worth having a look to see how the actuals were doing versus the forecasts.