‘What’s going to happen to house prices’, I was asked yesterday. I’m proven to be the wrong person...
UK housing market
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...
“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...
“Halifax index shows UK house price drop accelerates”
So gentle subsidence, rather than a crumble to rubble seems to be the predicted pattern for house...
“First-time buyers’ borrowing power hit by affordability stress”
Lenders have to assess whether or not you can afford a mortgage, and in recent years this has...
“Bring back 110% LTV mortgages in deprived areas – Policy Exchange”
The average mortgage term is now 30 years, the only way the average loan needed to buy the average...