The Demand for Housing in Ireland Everyone agrees that Ireland needs more homes. Experts and analysts seem to have settled on 35,000 as the magic number of houses that need to be built in order to meet the basic demand for homes each year. While this number would...
No one loves Spanish property quite like the Brits. Britain is consistently at the top of the list of foreign buyers in Spain and it's not difficult to understand why. Not only does Spain offer a warmer climate, an improved work-life balance, and a lower cost...
Last week the housing minister, Heather Wheeler, announced new plans to regulate and raise standards across the property and estate agents sector. The idea is to provide better standards of service to landlords, tenants, vendors and homebuyers. Lord Best will chair a new working group consisting...
A recent piece of research completed by Noddle offers startling evidence in the approach newcomers take to mortgages. In fact, the research revealed that people spend more time researching their next holiday than they do finding out about their first time home buyer mortgage. Research on...
An eye-opening research exercise has recently been undertaken by Market Finance Solutions. The independent research that was commissioned by the bridging lender covered a nationwide representation of over 2000 UK adults. Of those surveyed that had bought a property since 2007, 52% either used a mortgage...
Property is one of the most lucrative investment vehicles about. As an investment, it’s relatively easy to get a grip on the concepts surrounding this kind of asset investment. Once you understand the worth of property investment, it can really support your lifestyle. Property investment that...
The buy-to-let market has experienced the implementation of significant tax-related changes. The changes have created problems mostly for individual landlords. It has also reduced the introduction of new speculative landlords to the property market. Individuals are now discouraged from developing large property portfolios unless they form a limited company to...
According to the Royal Chartered Institute of Surveyors (RICS), demand for residential property continues to decline. The number of homes that have come onto the residential market has increased gradually. This, however, has been credited to the offloading of some buy-to-let properties. Although supply is not significantly out...
Property developers attend auctions to weed out some of the best investment opportunities available. Auctions, however, present a multitude of complexities that do not come with mainstream property purchases. Financing an auction property can bring with it headaches and technical problems not seen in traditional property...
Overseas mortgages are one of those financial products that we’ve all heard of, but probably don’t know all that much about. Most us may even have friends that hold an overseas mortgage, as the British continue their love affair with France and Spain. The “big...
