Will the clampdown on “garden grabbing” affect you?

Yesterday, the new Communities Minister Greg Clark announced that he intends to change the planning classification of gardens to tackle the so-called problem of ‘garden grabbing’. As a result, gardens will no longer be considered “Brownfield land”  (i.e. land that has been previously developed).
This is something that has been on Mr Clark’s agenda for sometime. [...]

How to deal with the problem of low mortgage valuations

Jun 4, 2010  |  under Buy-to-let, New build, Property  |  by Lyndon Forshaw

After the recent slump in property prices, headline figures suggest that house values are once again on the up. The latest figures from Nationwide reported that house prices rose by 1% in April, and have increased by over 10% in the past 12 months, while the Halifax has stated that prices are 7% higher than [...]

Finally… I agree with Prince Charles!

Jun 4, 2010  |  under New build, Property  |  by Lyndon Forshaw

It’s not very often that you’ll catch me agreeing with Prince Charles’s views on architecture… however, listening to his address to councillors and planners in Edinburgh recently, he echoed something I’ve believed for many years.
Essentially, he called on housing developers to consider whether they would want to set up home in the properties they build.
This [...]

Are you making this DEADLY buy-to-let mistake?

Mar 30, 2010  |  under New build, Property  |  by Lyndon Forshaw

Over the years I must have spoken to many hundreds of buy-to-let investors. The vast majority of them own a small portfolio of properties and seem quite content to get by each month on a few hundred pounds of “positive cash flow”.
They boast to me about how many properties they own and the value of [...]

Developing confidence in the UK property market

Nov 18, 2009  |  under New build, Property  |  by Lyndon Forshaw

As the year begins to draw to a close, some very positive signs are emerging that would suggest confidence among the major housing developers is starting to return. For the first time in the last couple of years, there’s talk of major new land acquisitions.
During the latter half of 2009 there seems to have been [...]

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