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For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...

By Sean Woolley, director of real estate agency Cloud Nine Spain   In 2022 we were predicting that the market would cool, but...

Black Brick has been advising professional property investors, buyers, sellers and developers since 2007.  It says it’s advised, sourced and acquired almost...

New starts on construction continued to fall during April, according to Construction industry insight experts, Glenigan. Their May edition of the Construction...

Spanish property experts Sean Woolley from Cloud Nine Spain and Mark Stücklin from Spanish Property Insight have been sharing their thoughts...

The last few years have seen an eruption of geopolitical volatility. A pandemic, several global lockdowns, and the re-emergence of war...

Two areas in the UK are still feeling the impact of the 2008 recession despite strong growth in new-build property values,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Giles Atkinson and I’m one part of...

The holiday season is around the corner so that means looking back on an eventful year and preparing for the next....

Industry experts say there will be no slow-down in the rapid growth of the holiday lets sector. Travel restrictions during the pandemic...

Property investment firm Advantage Investment explores the effects Covid-19 has had on property investment and lists the benefits of investing in holiday...

Another new year is approaching, but unlike the last, 2022 should arrive with significantly less uncertainty, especially for the property market....

In this guest piece, Martin Dell, Founder of Kyero, explores what makes overseas properties, particularly those in France, an attractive option...

In this guest piece, the media team at HULT Private Capital outline what they see as the future of property investing...

The term ‘Generation Rent’ has long been used throughout both the rental and sales markets, developing many connotations over the years....

It’s famous for oil, football, the North Sea chill and granite, but Scotland’s third biggest city – and the UK’s 39th...

This week – today (June 23), to be exact – marks five years since the EU referendum. It was a significant moment...

With each passing month comes new stats on high house prices, and with average prices now standing at an average of...

Last week, Global Citizen Solutions – a boutique migration investment firm headquartered in Lisbon – held a webinar to discuss the...

Despite it being not far off 15 years since the global financial crisis, the fallout is still being felt in the...

People thinking about Vilamoura might first and, in all likelihood, only think about the marina and the hotels, bars and restaurants...

British appetite for holidays and second homes in Spain remains strong, despite the challenges of the pandemic. That’s according to CostaLuz...

The prospect of investing your hard-earned money can be daunting, especially for those relatively new to it, but perhaps more-so after...

Fine & Country Portugal is currently running a series of webinars entitled ‘Your Second Home’, covering various topics related to the...

With 2021 nearly upon us, it’s time to look forward to what the next 12 months could bring from a property...

A property exchange company born out of the 2008 financial crash has seen its membership grow again as the world undergoes...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed so many things for so many people. For international real estate agents in Spain, it has...

When it comes to property investment, there is no one ‘right’ way to do it in order to succeed. Likewise, there...

I have been a developer and landlord for over 25 years and, for my sins, ended up owning an estates and...

Since the UK began to emerge from lockdown, the property market has reacted positively, with recent reports confirming a ‘mini boom’...

Tens of thousands of people in the UK and Ireland who lost out in Spain’s catastrophic property crash are now able...

House prices in Spain will close 2020 with little variation over the previous year, according to a recent market analysis of...

It’s a question many would-be investors will have been asking themselves, with so much remaining up-in-the-air and uncertain at present. But...

Covid-19 is a generational event that will impact the way people live, work and behave long after the pandemic has been...

With lockdown measures in place until at least May 7, and possibly for much longer than that, the new normal is...

Buy a property below market value, renovate it and then make a tidy profit by selling it at a higher price, all within...

Property Investor Today explores New York's biggest ever office to residential conversion, in the heart of the city's main financial district.  Lower...

The latest research by Benham and Reeves has looked at house price performance in previous leap years and what it could...

2019 brought with it much uncertainty, with falling property prices leading many to fear the start of a property price crash....

With Spain being one of the most popular investment destinations for British investors, we checked in with David Fuster, a highly...

Portsmouth-based agency NEXA Properties has released its latest report on the city which analyses how its property market is currently functioning. The...

With Londoners facing further delays with Crossrail, London letting and sales agent Benham and Reeves analysed house prices along the route...

With the current chaos swirling around Westminster – from the prorogation by Boris Johnson to this week’s Supreme Court ruling that...

Greece’s appeal as a property investment destination is increasing once again as the country continues to bounce back from severe economic...

The average income required for a first-time buyer (FTB) to purchase a home has grown 9% since 2016 and stands at...

As Brexit draws closer it is only natural that home owners are worried about how it will affect them. However, experts...

Nearly 40% of British holidaymakers have the funds to buy a holiday home and plan to do so in 2019, according...

A leading law firm in Dorset and Somerset has revealed its success in enabling British clients to recover deposits lost on...

The number of British expats living in Spain has dropped by 40%, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. What’s more, between 2012...

There has been an increase in the number of house sales falling through before completion, according to Quick Move Now. Figures released...

The owners of some of London's most affluent homes have faced a number of challenges since the market crashed in 2007,...

Houses in London’s commuter belt will be the hardest hit in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to property investment...

Some 93% of landlords financing buy-to-let property opted for a fixed rate mortgage in the second quarter of 2018, according to...

Fresh from his keynote speech at the Landlord Investment Show last month, property expert Kam Dovedi shares his five property predictions with...

Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...

The Spanish property market continues to thrive, according to estate agency Lucas Fox, with sales of new homes in Madrid and...

Property sales in the UK have still not recovered to anywhere close to their pre-2008 levels, a decade on from the...

Investors could have seen their buy-to-let (BTL) returns increase by as much as 1,131% over the past two decades, according to...

There was a marginal increase in the number of residential property sales in prime central London in the first half of...

It is undoubtedly a buyer’s market in London at the moment, with those who are looking to buy prime property in...

Rental asking prices are increasing fast across many parts of Spain, particularly in hot markets like Barcelona and the Balearics; an...

International buyers of residential property in the U.S. may not necessarily have a major impact on the overall housing market, but...

There has been a sharp increase in the number of commercial property acquisition by investors despite the ongoing political and economic...

Despite the recovery in housing markets across some part of the U.S. in recent years, most notably in large metropolitan areas,...

The number of residential properties receiving planning consent continues to increase and reached almost 300,000 last year, fresh figures show. According to...

Residential property prices in Australia are increasing at their fastest pace in seven years, fuelling growing fears about a property bubble...

At the height of the Spanish property crash, there were bargains to be had across the country, including repossessed properties in...

With fears of a residential and commercial property crash having receded following last year’s Brexit vote, London is starting to look...

The average property in the UK could decrease in value by up to £399 a week over 21 months, according to...

Will Herrmann, director at West Eleven, a property developer and investment company, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we...

World Cup legend Sir Geoff Hurst is among thousands of Britons offered fresh hope of retrieving money feared lost following the...

The number of new homes recorded in England has increased to its highest level since the financial crash, official figures have...

Residential property prices in Australia’s leading inner-cities like Melbourne and Brisbane could tumble by as much as 15% by 2019, according...

Ireland is at risk of another economic disaster because the country has failed to learn from the mistakes of the last...

Of the four Middle Eastern housing markets included the latest Global Property Guide survey, all, except UAE, performed worse in the...

Banks in Spain may be left with no alternative but to cut the price of repossessed Spanish homes on their books...

British investors who lost big deposits in the Spanish property crash have been given fresh hope of getting back their money. As...

The Buy-to-let market is booming in Spain with as many as one in three homes in the country’s main cities now...

Australia’s housing market could crash within the next six months unless banks act swiftly to prevent a sharp decline in foreign...

The annual rate of UK house price growth cooled further in August, after slowing the previous month, fresh data shows. Halifax said...

Investors may have been have been barred from cashing in their assets in several big commercial property funds in recent weeks...

Following Lewis Hamilton’s comfortable victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, we delve into the fast lane to take you...

Consumer confidence in the UK economy has nosedived at the fastest rate in 22 years post-Brexit, according to a new survey...

Spain’s housing market continues to recover, amid continuous improvement in economic conditions, with property demand picking up across many parts of...

Global markets have plunged, David Cameron has announced that he is to step down as Prime Minister later this year and...

With bookmakers now offering the shortest ever odds on the UK voting to leave the EU, some homes are being sold...

The number of new homes that were built in England in the first quarter of this year fell, government figures show. A...

People using crowdfunding to invest in property should be wary of the tax consequences of raising money through this increasingly popular platform,...

A chronic shortage of properties continues to drive house prices upwards across Britain. But a significant increase in the number of...

Last month, my estate agency, Portico, was in the press for saying something rather controversial: we could be on the verge...

Q: Who are Mayfair & Morgan? Mayfair & Morgan is a property Crowdfunding company which specialises in Property Portfolio Management, undertaking development...