I did predict a while ago that Waitrose Homes rather than Waitrose Home Deliveries could be the...
UK housing market
“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...
“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...
“Fixed rate mortgage crunch could force over-55s back to work”
More of the Law of Unexpected Consequences. Apparently, over 400,000 over 50s have ‘left the...
“Four of Britain’s biggest lenders cut rates on fixed mortgage deals”
A majority of mortgagees are on fixed rate deals these days. Most mortgagors offer the chance to...
“UK house prices fall at sharpest rate for 14 years, says Nationwide”
As rehearsed many times, I’ve been a house price doom-monger for many a month. As with those who...
What’s going to happen to house prices?
‘What’s going to happen to house prices’, I was asked yesterday. I’m proven to be the wrong person...
Turmoil in the mortgage market
The vast majority of mortgage borrowers who’ve had a choice are on fixed rate deals these days. If...
“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...
“40-year mortgages now ‘commonplace’”
When I was but a youth, I was often told to enjoy myself before I had the ‘millstone of a mortgage...
“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...
“Bank of mum and dad drives economic inequalities”
Not sure if there are any surprises or changes to the world order here. It was ever thus, that...