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There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way to get a foot on the property ladder than at any time since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Since 2011, the number of loans to this group has risen by over 75% and, in the last year alone, over 339,000 loans were issued to FTBs, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Not many of us have a multi-million property portfolio, so the results of the MSCI / IPD UK property index for the last quarter of 2016, may have passed you by. The results are interesting though and certainly a good story for residential investment over the last year - the sector did better than retail industrial, leisure or office property.
The growing size and scale of the private rented sector is not new news. Headlines shout about the changing profile of the housing market and, since the millennium, the proportion...
If the UK is heading for a ‘hard Brexit’ what could it mean for housing markets? Politicians flex their Brexit muscles at Tory party conference On 2nd October at the...
London housing is expensive; very expensive. That is hardly a shock, but it is also not really the point. Price is a one-dimensional metric. What matters is that London is…
We regularly analyse a range of factors which help us build a picture of housing and rental demand across major town and cities in the UK. Examining real (inflation adjusted)…
Letter from the Chancellor to the Bank of England
It is now three months since the EU Referendum when the country surprised pollsters by voting to leave the European Union. Initial reactions to the news forebode economic turmoil and…
In their seventh index of 30 global cities, PWC report that London has retained the top spot as the world’s leading City of Opportunity. The report benchmarks 30 international cities…
As the sunshine has finally broken through the rainclouds we were inspired to take a look at house price movements close to the English coast – and it highlighted some…
It is widely expected that the Monetary Policy Committee will cut interest rates at its meeting in August. Mark Carney has made it clear that the economy can handle change,…
Ten days on from the Referendum, we review the key moments of a week and a half filled with financial market and political turbulence. In particular, we examine what this…
Many people will now be looking to the Bank of England for reassurance as to how the UK will steer a course through what is sure to be an unsettling…
A new UK house price index has just been published which will replace separate indices published by the Land Registry and Office for National Statistics. It is the result…
London is a global city and prime London homes are a global commodity. Every billionaire worth their salt wants a slice of prime London real estate. So it would make…
It’s no secret that getting houses built is high on the political and social agenda in the UK. The shortage of housing means that there are constant debates about how…
When it comes to buying a new build home, a common image that sails into the mind is of rows of identical properties, often crammed together with green space at…
It’s no secret that property is high on the political and social agenda in the UK with a myriad of property market data and analysis fed to the media and…
After a succession of raids on the residential sector in recent fiscal policy announcements, the Budget on March 16th was as significant for what it didn’t do for property, as…
