Surely if you can afford to pay nearly £1,500 in rent, you can afford a mortgage? Well, yes,...
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“Home Reit set to wind down in face of debts and FCA investigation”
Housing, particularly social housing, is a hot topic, a focus of the King’s Speech and a flagship...
“Reeves to bring back housebuilding targets”
Yes, this is all part of the plan for growth, growth, growth, but a big part of the pitch is to...
“Triple Point Social Housing REIT eyes £20m portfolio sale”
Here’s a part of what’s gone wrong with to-the-nth-degree privatisation. What used to be council...
“Rental prices up 6.2% in 12 months to January – ONS”
The number of under-40s, in particular, renting without apparent hope of buying has risen by over...
“Rents up 9% in 2023 while voids hit historic lows – Goodlord”
Here’s the other side of the ‘housing crisis’. Rents are up by an above-inflation percentage,...
“Santander tightening buy-to-let affordability ‘disaster’ for market”
It’s not just spiralling interest rates which are affecting buy to lets. These have meant that...
“Home REIT appoints new investment manager as rent collection drops to 13%”
This is one of what may be a number of codas to a story featured a couple of weeks ago. Home REIT...
The end of ‘buy-to-let’?
‘The Renters’ (Reform) Bill, introduced to Parliament today, delivers the Government’s 2019...
“Concerns mount over potential fire sale of Home REIT properties as liquidity shrinks”
OK, this might sound a bit obscure if you’re not in the know, but let me tell you what it’s all...
“Lower pricing leads to surge in home demand, says Home.co.uk’s Asking Price Index”
I suppose you could call this classic free-market behaviour; although it’s outside influences, in...
“Annual house price growth turns negative in February, Nationwide”
Negative growth. What a great and typical piece of economists’ jargon. I think they mean house...
“Lloyds boss says business case for buy-to-let ‘really difficult'”
Record low interest rates, soaring house prices and our love affair for property (we all...
“Property sales to fall 21% next year as mortgage arrears rise”
OK, I know I’ve been predicting a property market ‘crash’, or at least a slowdown, for a year or...
“Buy-to-let mortgage payments increase by 286% in one year”
It’s changes in the rental market which will have the biggest effect on property prices in the...