Britons who are considering buying a holiday home abroad have been advised to consider the Portuguese market.
Portugal recommended to British buyers The country was praised by Country Life for offering a variety of leisure attractions and a slower, more relaxed pace of life.
Portugal was also described as a charming destination that was very popular with [...]
Buying and selling for a profit used to be ‘easy’. Through the millennium you could buy a property and be guaranteed it would make money in a few years and in some cases, a few months. Some people (and mortgage lenders!) seemed to think house prices would continue to rise, others warned of a housing [...]
As the news stories about the woes of the property markets continue to pile up in the media, more people are tempted to put their homes on the market in the present climate to see if they are able to sell ‘at the top of the curve’ and take advantage of the capital gains they [...]
Increased demand amongst discerning cash rich buyers in the UK means that the best properties in the best locations are now typically within 5% to 10% of their peak, according to new research. Georgian style properties are more likely to attract a premium price as buyers make a distinction between different architectural styles, the data [...]
As the nation’s property market has cooled, Hometrack has reported the return of a buyers’ market, with sales currently being made at 94.3% of the asking price. Waiting for a buyers market is a good way to make your money stretch further but an increasingly popular way of saving money on investment properties is by [...]
Buying property in France can be a daunting prospect for some as the process is so different from the UK or Ireland. To help you we have compiled six top tips to help you from your property search right through to viewings and the final sale. These tips should help you not only be more [...]
The commercial properties market may be experiencing a current downturn but the industry’s prestigious RICS awards are as popular as ever. Developers and companies in the commercial property industry are finding themselves having to look out for new ways to stand out in this increasingly tenant driven market. Buildings and land no longer lease or [...]
The global financial World is in a state of more turmoil than most people can ever remember seeing. The rumours of a UK property crash are abundant and many people are rightly asking, “is it the wrong time to buy property in the UK?”
But are we really on the verge of the property market crashing [...]
The credit crunch has fully set in and experts have stated that we are on our way to a full blown recession. Real estate is at an all time low and London commercial property leasing and sales figures are at some of the lowest levels ever recorded. The London commercial property market has become a [...]
The UK property market has been riding an upward trend for many years now, with house prices soaring significantly over the last decade. A new report from Assetz, the property investment advice experts, indicates that the average rate of annual growth in the UK property market in March 2007 was 10.2 per cent, down just [...]