Prior to the bottom falling out of the property sector in 2008 everyone had a decent idea what their home was worth. Prices were growing so quickly that it was nearly impossible not to steal a look at those internet sites that tell you the amount paid for houses near you. Now though, because the [...]

When the housing sector predicament started in consequence of the problems in the finance sector in 2008 a lot of those who had poured money into the property market started to panic. They saw their investments drop in value and their loan to value percentage make a large slide in the wrong direction. They had [...]

Regularly farm buildings and other industrial buildings were constructed at a time when lots of care was taken with the design, architecture and build of the structure. Long dead industrialists were very proud of the splendour of their buildings, whether they were manufacturing works, mills or less important buildings they got far more lavish attention [...]

The UK house sector is still struggling to pick up in the aftermath of the worst down turn in decades and the worry of huge spending cuts hovering over the whole nation. Up until now people haven’t in reality felt the effects of the decline unless they have been unfortunate enough to be made redundant. [...]

If you have to achieve a quick property sale at some point over the next few months you may be despairing of actually achieving anything at all because of the position of the property market. Things have been almost static for the last 12 months but even this is a bonus next to the decreasing [...]

All things apparently go round round in a cycle and that is certainly correct for the housing and rental markets over the last ten years. From the nineties to the endlatter part of the 20th century the house market boomed and a lot of people earned lots of money, even those who were not so [...]

With the situation in the current property sector meaning that it is very tricky to sell a property at a reasonable price numerous families are in an even worse position than usual when they are not able to pay the mortgage. It is difficult with everything booming in the market to be in this position, [...]

The current situation in the UK property sector is awful. There are very few first time buyers prepared to join the market and those who will want a rock bottom price for the pleasure. Rightly so, they are in real danger of picking a property up now only to find 12 months on that it [...]

In recent decades the Estate Agency sector in the UK has altered almost completely. In previous decades by the avid home buyer used to spend their leisure hours trawling round each estate agents window, and rifling through the local press looking for the house for them. Picking up a house outside your area was hard [...]

It has been promoted on TV programmes and in investment and business sectors about the cash available from property investment. It appeared three or four years ago, that even the most inexperienced and careless property developer could make money by buying and selling houses. This was not far from the mark. TV shows showed how [...]