Rent costs are putting the squeeze on workers and pensioners
Wednesday 23 September 2020
The huge rise in the cost of property since the 1990s has already had a material social impact on the UK. We are all aware of the increasing difficulties that young people are having in getting onto the housing ladder...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Data on borrowing for November suggest that the trend line in demand for credit in the UK is downwards. Figures produced by UK Credit show that the total number of mortgages taken out was 5% lower than in November 2016 and the lowest monthly total since August 2016...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
The latest data show house prices falling in London for the first time since 2009 when the country was in the immediate aftermath of the global banking crisis...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Following the rise in price inflation in recent months and messages emanating from the Bank of England and UK economists it seems that Bank Rate - also known as the ‘official interest rate’ - will soon be raised by the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Pension Awareness Day, 15 September, is becoming an important annual fixture. It aims to encourage us to save for retirement and help employers communicate pensions simply to their workers...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
The traditional way in which fund manager performance has tended to be judged is against the performance of other fund managers with similar investment objectives...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
From the moment the True Potential PUFin Centre launched ‘Managing My Money ‘ - its first free online course - in 2014 it became abundantly clear that pensions are the greatest personal finance issue in this country...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Any UK landlord who wants to keep satisfying the needs of his/her tenants and stay ahead of the competition needs to become more aware of the everyday changes occurring in today’s dynamic construction industry and be prepared to use said changes to his/her advantage...
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Over the past year the Bank of England has regularly expressed concern at the pace of growth of unsecured lending in the UK. This form of consumer credit, which includes credit card debt, car finance and unsecured bank loans, grew by over 10% in the year to April...
2015 has been a breakout year for the hotel industry in Northern Ireland, with investors flocking to grab up property in the area...
Once upon a time, London’s new tech scene seemed to be made up of trendy aps that helped you pass your time in a hazy dream of lined-up fruit and Sims-esque farming...
The UK housing market is one of the most well-developed in the world due to the wide range of mortgage options available...
Although much of the UK media tend to focus on London as a home for property millionaires and overseas investors, there are considerable pockets and areas where property prices are continuing to grow, with many of these areas now containing a number of million pound plus properties...
When it comes to London boroughs, if you take the time to study property trends then you will find that a pattern emerges...
