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In my last blog post I looked at why I do not think rents would fall much, even in real terms over the next year. I also don’t think house prices will fall much in real terms either, at least not over the next 12 months. OK, I will admit when the Covid “pandemic” and the insane lockdowns had just […]
Read moreThere has been a lot of comment in the personal finance pages of the press about where house prices and rents might be heading in the next year or so. House Prices, Rents and Inflation The big worry, is of course, inflation – and its effect on everything as a dampener of demand and hence of a dampener too on […]
Read moreWill House Prices Keep Rising? A very interesting article appeared in a recent edition of the “Financial Times” says David Lawrenson of LettingFocus.com. In the article, Merryn Somerset Webb asked, “Will house prices will ever rise again?” A fair question. Her view was that it was nearly impossible to answer this question if you do not have a good understanding […]
Read moreWhere will UK house prices in the post Brexit world be headed? House Prices Post-Brexit Well, we don’t know for sure yet because we don’t know what kind of Brexit we will get, or even if we will get one anyway, (the UK could delay the fateful day or even change its mind). Of course, all the uncertainty is making businesses […]
Read moreThe more I look at it, the more I am convinced that we might be “at or near the top” for a little while, as regards house prices for London. House Price Falls Look More Likely Than Not Why do I say this? Well, first, and to understand things, you have to go back a while to see what’s been […]
Read moreAre we in a house price bubble? Should I buy now, or have house prices reached their peak and are about to fall or even crash? These are some of the questions that private landlords and institutional investors often ask us at LettingFocus. And the fact is I don’t now the answer. There is an old story from rural Kent […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of private rent consultancy LettingFocus.com takes the papers to task over the way they report house prices. House prices are the subject of regular conversations all around the UK. We talk about it a lot and the government knows rising house prices makes much of the voting public “feel richer” and hence, possibly happier too and more inclined […]
Read moreIf more land could be built on more readily then house prices would fall. However, this may be politically unacceptable says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com in this new piece which looks at the things that drive house prices. There was an interesting piece by Stephen Wilmot in the Investors Chronicle last week, called “House Prices are Still Key to Buy […]
Read moreFor some reason, investing in residential property has often made a fool out of otherwise sensible people (and banks). All too often, they cannot see a bubble until it is about to burst. In this blog post David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com mulls over the wreckage. Every now and then you will read of a banker (or one of their supporters) […]
Read moreIn the last year the private rented sector continued to be in the news. At LettingFocus.com we are not surprised and landords and suppliers to the private rented sector should not be surprised either. A key reason is of course Housing Benefit, (or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) as it is known when private landlords are involved), and it is the […]
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