Another property crash soon?

Sep 21, 2017 | Housing market

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There are plenty of signs like this one in every village in every county. Your first reaction might be I’m going to sign a petition. Or, well, if they build here, maybe that’ll put them off building in the field behind me as I only live a couple miles away protesters much as you like, with planning laws as lacks as they currently are under government directive, only one thing will kill this development. The inevitability that another property crash will be rolling over the horizon in the not too distant future.

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“John Lewis foray into BTR could result in losses of £57m”

“John Lewis foray into BTR could result in losses of £57m”

I did predict a while ago that Waitrose Homes rather than Waitrose Home Deliveries could be the future. John Lewis were probably the most benign big business to decide to go into the housing rental market, a move which could swing things away from the unpredictability of the mass of private landlords who dominate the sector.

“Should you fix your mortgage forever?”

“Should you fix your mortgage forever?”

In the US (and, randomly, Denmark) it’s the norm to fix-rate your mortgage for the life of your mortgage. For us and most others, it’s now usual to fix your mortgage rate, but only for a couple or five years at most.