It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we...
Property can offer a hedge against both expected and unexpected inflation, says Joe McTaggart, MD of Walls & Futures. The Bank of England has to date purchased £200bn in assets and while there is debate as to the risks of the Quantitative Easing policy, consensus is building that one of the negative outcomes will be...
For investors, 2010 resembled a scene from a Hollywood film, in which the survivors of a financial crisis tentatively left their shelters to survey the damage. Some quickly retreated feeling that the investment waters were still toxic, while others took advantage of the uncertainty, feeling that opportunity was knocking.
Coming into the May general election, the press was awash with talk of a coalition government, but I’m not sure many believed it would happen. The last was Churchill’s War Ministry during the Second World War, a time which required the nation to pull together. Perhaps voters felt the current economic situation warranted a...
With only a day left before one of the most contentiously fought General Elections in living memory, we review the manifestos of the three main parties and identify their key pledges and how they might affect the UK property market.
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The start of 2009 was not one filled with hope. The headlines were nothing but doom and gloom following a year where the global financial system went into melt down and the credit markets froze as if they had been thrown back to the ice age. With the Royal Bank of Scotland announcing the biggest...
Research by comparison site Moneysupermarket.com revealed that inquiries for buy-to-let mortgages have increased by nearly 50% since August 2008. However the number of available mortgage products fell by more than 70%. Although there is a growing number of investors looking to take advantage of the market, many are unable to meet the 130% increase in...
The endless talk of doom and gloom is now being replaced by that of recovery with the press replacing “Credit Crunch” with a new buzz word “Green Shoots”. As always the UK property market remains tightly in focus and the debate now centres on the shape of the recovery?
It’s hard to believe that the credit crunch has been with us for almost two years. Property was one of the first sectors to succumb as mortgage finance dried up and confidence began to ebb. With buyers staying away from the market property prices fell. It was not long before the effects of the...
There were several historic events in 2008 including the Beijing Olympics and the election of Barak Obama as US president. They were all overshadowed by the “credit crunch” which ravaged global investment markets.
