Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
The 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 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 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 […]
Read moreI’ll publish my ideas for how Local Authorities should be working now to deal with the impact of rising LHA rates next week. For now, I’ll return to an interesting question that comes up a lot – and that is the issue of house prices and whether they will go up or down in the near future. A number of […]
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