Oxfordshire estate agents have been talking about the growth in the number of million pound houses and Millionaire homes coming to market for a long time. As a property search agency specialising in UK property search, we are seeing a lot of activity in upper end of the Read More

If you are in the unenviable position of having fallen into arrears with the repayments on your mortgage or some other loan secured on your property, you may well be facing repossession. Of course it’s easy to tell you what you should have done before now. Read More

Everyone who knows that I live in Dorset and that I am a UK property search agent ask me “did you see the Piers Morgan programme on Sandbanks”. That is the series that ran for 3 nights on ITV and which showed you around Read More

There are a lot of reasons why some one may need to sell their home quickly or just need to raise funds. It could be as a result of increasing interest rates, looming repossession, divorce or a new job in a new area or country. Whatever the situation, if you are a home owner in need of selling your house fast, one of the various “Read More

As an experienced letting agent in the Poole and Bournemouth in the south of England, I am not getting worried by the stories of doom and gloom that the papers seem to love at the moment. Despite the worries of a pending recession, my belief is that 2008 is going to be a good year for the rental business. We are anticipating that prices for renting will increase and more people will be renting than ever before and for longer.

Why do I think this? Well, where mortgages were once cheaper than renting, we are now seeing the reverse; hence an increase in rental prices will naturally follow over the next few years while they play catch up. The UK Government also gives statistics of 16 million more people moving into Britain by the year 2025 – to put this into perspective, this is the size of London and these people will need to rent somewhere! Put those together with our own siblings not being able to afford to get onto the property market until their late twenties/early thirties, the prospect for the property lettings industry has never been so good!

We know for a lot of Landlords, they have struggled with increasing mortgage interest rates and are having to dip into their reserves to cover shortfalls, but if they could hold on just a little longer, we believe we will see the interest rate drop this year. Read More