New Landlord Protection Against Rouge Sellers
As of 1st of February the Land Registry launched a new form (LL) allowing property owners to register a restriction against the title of their home if they do not live at the property.
21st Century Gadgets For Mortgage Brokers
This list is probably going to grow, but trying to collate a listing of the best apps being used by mortgage brokers.
Property prices up and down – a quick round up
Over the last few weeks there has been the usual flurry of reports about the state of the property market in England. Here’s a quick round up of the land registry’s take compared with the Nationwide and Halifax reports. Land registry index Apparently London was the only area to see property values increase last year, …
Business Finance News – Good and Bad
A quick round up of business finance news. A recent survey of 1,000 SME’s by HSBC Commercial bank has established that more than eight out of ten small business owners think that their businesses will grow over the next 12 months. Whilst raising business finance remains challenging around 14% of businesses that responded to the …
Small Business Loans and Debts
A recent study by the business software services provider, Sage UK, has found that almost 25% of requests by small businesses for business loans were rejected by the banks last year. The study is compiled from around 1,000 responses to a survey which shows that around a quarter of all UK small and medium sized …
Building homes, buying homes and empty homes
The Telegraph is reporting that the big property developers are keeping busy. Whilst not exactly boom time again it seems that things are at least stabilising, and not getting any worse. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/9001042/Housebuilders-to-report-resilient-property-market.html Meanwhile a survey by the Halifax of local authority areas shows that if you’re living in the right part of the UK and …