Like most news about the property market, the recent change in Interest rates has resulted in a flurry of news stories and opinions. After 10 years of low interest the base rate — the interest rate on which others are based — went up from 0.25% to 0.5%. Is it really good for savers and[…]
Thousands of people move home every year, what’s the deal with these buying agents who claim to save money, time and stress? I should start by saying I’m a ‘Buying Agent’, a London based property consultant helping people move. When asked what I do it normally always results in the same questions – who pays?[…]
Late last year we saw a spike in activity with the London market, in part a reaction to the post-Brexit fall in the pound but also because trouble looms in other areas of the world, such as China where there are signs of an end to their own property bubble. Trouble that spells out grave[…]
Remember the local estate agent who knew almost everyone in the town and had the ability to make things happen with just his landline and a shop window? I don’t, but that’s how it used to be apparently. The high street also had a solicitors office and a some financial advisors – a[…]
House price indices, journalists, politicians, online tools, estate agents, the bloke in the pub, your mother in law and everyone at the dinner table last night – they all sound like experts but do any of them have a clue? In my wide eyed early twenties I remember very clearly the excitement of wanting to understand more[…]