The Amateur Landlord Has Left the Building
Landlord numbers are down but portfolio sizes are up. What the professionalisation of buy-to-let means for investors still in the game.
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Everyone Else Is Looking the Other Way
Asking prices dipped in July for reasons that have nothing to do with a market top, while rents keep hitting new records. Why the current combination favours buyers who are ready to act.
UK Property Hotspots: The 10 Areas Where House Prices Soared in 2024, but Are They the Best Places to Buy (Invest) in 2025?
It’s hot spot season! Just Googling around property and I can see that on a journalist’s ‘to do list’ in January is to produce the Property Hot Spot article. Nothing wrong with that, by the way, we all need to make a living, and reviewing the property market in January makes perfect sense as we…
Is now the time to buy up north? is capital growth on the way?
According to the ONS (Office for National Statistics) the house price ‘north-south’ divide has narrowed. Property prices in the north west of England have pushed on strongly, whilst prices in London (and parts of the South East) have stalled and, in patches, have even fallen back a bit. So, as a consequence, the…
Contradictory Opinions – Halifax Says House Price Growth UP, Nationwide says it’s DOWN in August 2017 !
There we go. Proves there’s some truth in the saying “There’s lies, damn lies and statistics”. When it comes to house prices you can hold any opinion and be right! Of course, to be fair, there are a number of different house price indices, and the methodology for each is different. but, as just one…
Property Prices to Increase 20% by 2018, Or Am I Just An April Fool?
If you’ve read much of my material you know that I often have a lot to say about the media in their reporting of buy to let in particular, and the property market in general. This is certainly not because I think the media is a useful source of unbiased, objective information which I can…
Property Prices April Fool Part Two
In my last post I talked about how the media can influence market confidence and how media coverage of the property market seems more positive now than it has been for a long time. As example I quoted the Daily Express of 1st April which reported that the Centre for Economics and Business Research is…
Buy to Let Investors Optimistic About 2013
According to research released by Paragon Mortgages in February, 76% of landlords surveyed are optimistic about the prospects for the Private Rented Sector in 2013, with 41% expecting tenant demand to increase. Perhaps not surprisingly then 15% of landlords expect to buy more buy to let properties in 2013. Of those responding to the survey…
Tenants Staying in Buy to Let Properties For Longer
According to research by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) the average length of a tenant’s stay in a buy to let property has increased from 19 months in Q1 2012 to 20 months today. This is the longest period recorded so far. Almost 57% of ARLA agents report that there are more tenants…
Buy to Let Index Shows Rents Rising Again And Projected Overall Returns of 10.9%
According to the latest buy to let index from LSL Property Services plc average rents in March 2013 were 0.5% up on rents in February, a t £735, and are 4.2% up on the same time in 2012. This was the first increase in 5 months, there having been falls in the previous 4 months.…