Buying Repossessed Property and Why Buying Repossessions from an Estate Agent May be Better than Buying at Auction

I read an interesting piece in the weekend press a couple of weeks ago about how buyers are being gazumped when trying to buy repossessed property. The background to the story was that a certain “property notable’s” offspring had been in the process of buying a repossessed property through an estate agent and was rather miffed when they got gazumped […]

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Local Housing Allowance Concessions Likely and Innovative Thinking Sought from Lenders

I hope you are not too bored by our coverage of the Housing Benefit story. If you are an organisation or public body and are providing / selling services or products to the private rented sector, you should still be riveted because it has big implications for the whole market. Even if you are a landlord who never lets to […]

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Mortgages and Estate Agents Plus Lloyds Banking Group’s Strange New Buy to Let Lending Policy

Next Property Investment Seminar and Networking Event Lloyds Banking Group has just announced it will no longer be  offering new buy to let mortgage loans to landlords who have more than three properties or who have more than £2m worth of loans. This move will also hit buy-to-let investors that are remortgaging their current properties. Apparently, nine out of 10 […]

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