UK House Prices Fall After Eight Years of Growth
House prices in the UK have risen year on year since 2012. Due to the current pandemic crisis this year we will not see the same rise. Nationwide Building Society claims that property value is down by 0.1% compared to [...]
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The Bow Post Lockdown Property Market – What have we learned in the first month? by Paul Kirby
From talking to most of the Bow estate and letting agents and our own findings, it might surprise many of you that new enquiries from homebuyers, tenants, landlords and home sellers have been at record levels since lockdown was lifted [...]
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Shaping Rooms with Light
Most of us prefer to live in homes with a lot of natural light that shines through all day. However, not all homes are blessed with good lighting. Some have small windows, not enough windows, or can be in a [...]
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Are Buy to Let Landlords to Blame for Bow’s Housing Crisis? by Paul Kirby
Isn’t it funny that nobody boasts they are a buy to let landlord anymore? Roll the clock back to the early millennium and you couldn’t go to the local golf club or shop at a Waitrose without someone dropping buy [...]
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Buy to Let in Bow and E3? by Paul Kirby
In 2019, the private rented sector accounted for just over four and a half million households or 19.9% of UK households, no change from the year before. Interesting, when compared to the proportion of private rented households in the 1980’s [...]
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Is Uruguay a Real Estate Investors Dream?
The world is slowly beginning to recover from recent events. In times of crisis, people like to dream about the life they want. The same is true for investors in real-estate. Lock-down has made people dream of holidays in lush [...]
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Surge in Rental Prices after Lockdown
Demand for lettings went up 22% during May compared to last year according to Rightmove. This rise is of course attributed to the fact that people were in lockdown from March with viewings limited to virtual tours. As a result, [...]
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Mortgage Payment Holiday is a Double-Edged Sword
Many homeowners are struggling financially as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The state of lockdown is causing a big loss of earnings for many families across the UK. One possible solution to this problem is the ‘mortgage holiday’. As [...]
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The Real Estate Sector Seems Resilient to Pandemic Shock
The Covid-19 pandemic has created huge concerns for the UK economy with many people questioning how it will survive! However, the entire situation is not as catastrophic as it is often portrayed, at least that is the case for the [...]
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Private Sector Helping the Local Communities
Enterprise Inns (Ei) Group, which is owned by Stonegate, is the biggest pub in Britain. Due to the negative impacts that coronavirus has brought about, the company has waived rent for 350 tenants. However, the waiver was only agreed upon [...]
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