New figures showing that the average asking price for a home in Londonhas risen to more than £500,000 for the first time could add to fears of a new house price bubble being fuelled by cheap mortgages and government schemes to boost the market. According to the Rightmove property website, the average price of a house coming on [...]

Canary Wharf Group Plc and Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund won local-government approval to construct offices and 877 homes in eight buildings at the site of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s U.K. headquarters near the London Eye Ferris wheel on the River Thames. Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment and the controller of the Canary Wharf financial district [...]

Get rid of your pre-conceptions of London property. London investment property is not just high-end Mayfair or Canary Wharf. If you do your research you can achieve significant return on your investment at a much lower entry level. For instance, property close to the new Crossrail network is forecast for significant growth of circa £5.5 [...]

Investing in hotel rooms has been around for the past couple of years, but do people really appreciate all of the benefits of this type of investment? In short my answer would be no.  These investments, if chosen correctly, can offer fantastic returns and security.  Offering returns between 6-15% per annum, Hotel Rooms are rapidly [...]

London property has certainly been attracting the attention of UK and investors from overseas in the run up to Olympic year.

News out this morning suggests that investors are increasingly viewing UK property as an alternative to the stockmarket and other ‘safe’ forms of investment. There is now little doubt that the property pendulum has swung firmly in favour of renting rather than buying as those unable to afford mortgages are forced to consider renting as [...]

Happy birthday! 15 years on, is buy-to-let still the best place to invest your money? 15 years on from the official birth of buy-to-let in the UK, the sector shows little sign of slowing down as only 10% of investors think that now is a bad time to invest in property. The overwhelming majority are [...]

You may not have heard this headline for a while, but we have seen some very positive signs in recent house price data suggesting a summer surge in confidence. Temperatures soared to their highest level for five years this week, but the weather is not the only thing that has begun to heat up this [...]

15 years on from the official birth of buy-to-let in the UK, the sector shows little sign of slowing down as just 10% of investors think it’s a bad time to invest in property. The following 10 reasons explain why its a good idea… The overwhelming majority of landlords are planning to expand their portfolios [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up of bad news, if it’s not the Greek economy collapsing it’s the sovereign debt crisis and stock market turmoil, world economy on the brink and so on… And I’m not the only one, even the Daily Mail, Britain’s middle England tabloid bearer of bad tidings is [...]