What’s Behind an Increase in Mortgage Lending?
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Prospects for the UK Housing Market in 2013
2012 was a tough year for the UK housing market and even the prime sector was negatively affected by a…
ByLoans from the Wealthy Could Kickstart Homebuilding
If the government want more houses built but banks aren’t lending enough money, where can housebuilders turn? Mezzanine financing from…
ByWhy Are So Many Chinese HNWs Moving to the UK?
Occidentally on Purpose The UK is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of HNWs making the move from Eastern…
ByIs the Global Property Market on the Rebound at Last?
Bouncy Castles Is the global property market on the rebound at last? Possibly, says Ross Clark — though it was…
ByWhy It’s Still a Good Idea to Invest in Agriculture
Back in the spring I wrote about the investment qualities of the UK agricultural sector and its viability as an…
ByWhy the Mortgage Market Review is Good News for HNWs and Entrepreneurs
Robin Hood was famous for robbing the rich to give to the poor and – given some of the reaction…
ByAre Brits Finally Falling Out of Love with Period Properties?
In With the Nouveau Ross Clark on the relative decline in the value of period properties and the resurgence of…
ByChesterton Humberts: London property bucks downward trend
A little over halfway through the year and we are not in the position we expected to be in this…
ByPrime London Residential Market Remains Resilient in the Face of Recession
AT A TIME when most economies around the world are either slowing down or in recession, one segment of the…
ByWhy the Olympics Won’t Raise Property Prices
False Start If you build it, they will come — and then they will go. Ross Clark on the peculiar…
ByKnight Frank: London prime property prices up 13% on 2008 peak, challenges weigh
Prices are now more than 13% higher than the previous market peak in early 2008, but stamp duty and the…
BySecond Homes: Increased Possession or Repossession?
The Noughties may well be remembered, amongst other things, for the boom in second home ownership. Indeed as the decade…
ByChesterton Humberts: Is Finsbury Park the next property investment location?
The prime London residential market typically conjures up images of attractive period properties in locations such as Mayfair, Kensington and…
ByAirbnb: A Room for All Seasons
Spare capacity is usually a term economists chuck about when they want to say we could all be working a…
ByWhy is London so Popular with International HNWs?
At Home Abroad Nick Barnes of Chesterton Humberts on London, the world’s great residential market I am often asked why…
ByTax Relief on Holiday Homes: The Good and the Bad News
Vat Out of Hell Ross Clark on the infuriating tax legislation that’s turning the potentially attractive option of owning a…
ByUK Prime Property Market Will Survive a Eurozone Collapse
While the rest of the country’s residential markets continue to languish in the doldrums (although Chesterton Humberts’ country offices have…
ByBudget 2012: The Implications for UK Residential Property
We were expecting some painful pronouncements regarding residential property at this year’s budget as the Chancellor had warned us about…
ByIceberg Houses: The Trend for Digging Basements
Great Excavations It’s currently the height of fashion to plumb the depths and build a fancy basement beneath your London…
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