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![Investors Paying Cash Swoop On Property Deals As Market Slumps](/upload/images/23%2008%2029%201%20Investors%20Paying%20Cash%20Swoop%20On%20Property%20Deals%20As%20Market%20Slumps.jpg)
Cash-paying investors are swooping in and making purchases for less than their mortgage counterparts, new data suggests. In June 2023 cash buyers...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![American dream! US buyer demand for London property doubles](/upload/images/Locations/UnionJack-USFlags-400x310.jpg)
American investors are increasingly interested in prime London property, boosted by favourable exchange rates, the current need for diversification of portfolios and...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Upfront information – is this a major change for the property market?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-MagnifyingGlass--1-400x310.jpg)
Following the announcement that National Trading Standards and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are set to improve the standard of...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![New bespoke app launched for property investors](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Sourced-App-400x310.jpg)
Sourced Property, the sourcing arm of the Sourced Group, has announced the launch of a 'bespoke property listing app', focused on the investor...
17 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight: What's the best property development strategy?](/upload/images/library/Investment(2)-400x310-min.jpeg)
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, 'what's the best property development strategy?'. Given that property development ranges...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Auction roundup – a bumper September to wrap up the summer](/upload/images/library/AuctionRoundup-400x310-min.jpg)
Last week, PIT spoke to some of the UK’s biggest and most successful auctioneers to find out if they planned to...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech 3.0 and beyond – the future of property investment](/img/default/pit.png)
Technology is changing how investors find, select and purchase property. This is especially true with the constraints of the past year...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![What should you consider before paying for a property course or mentor?](/img/default/pit.png)
Property investment can be very profitable over time and is seen as one of the safest forms of investment during times...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Could 2021 be the year of the small indie developer?](/img/default/pit.png)
Over the last 10 months, we have seen a raft of changes to the planning rules in England. This has been...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: the mindset and success principles of a property investor](/img/default/pit.png)
Harvey Raybould is a UK property investor and owner of the Creative Property Group (CPG), a Kent-based property firm which aims...
20 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Online platform encourages ‘property enthusiasts’ to join its investor network](/img/default/pit.png)
‘Property enthusiasts’ across the UK have been invited to join the latest property networking groups held by the Sourced Investor Network...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![I’m Stephen Moss, the founder and managing director of Sourced](/img/default/pit.png)
Who are you? I’m Stephen Moss, the founder and managing director of the largest property investment platform in the UK, Sourced. I’ve worked...
08 October 2018
From: 60 Second Interview
![Finalists revealed for property investment awards](/img/default/pit.png)
With less than a month to go until the Property Investors Awards, held at The Royal National Hotel in Russell Square,...
08 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Bridging sector returns to growth, thanks to high demand from investors](/img/default/pit.png)
A growing number of property investors are turning to alternative finance options to overcome tougher mainstream mortgage lending criteria and stress...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![London’s West End investment market dominated by £100m+ deals](/img/default/pit.png)
Property deals worth £100m+ are dominating London’s West End investment market at the moment, with ten deals of this size totalling...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property investors set to put purchases on hold in wake of snap general election](/img/default/pit.png)
Thousands of investors are expected to postpone or pull out of property deals as a result of Theresa May’s decision to...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices surge 20% in the west of Ireland](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices continued to increase across most parts of Ireland in the year to the end of February, led by...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Bridging loans open up opportunities for budding investors](/img/default/pit.png)
The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Brexit uncertainty prompts decline in UK property deals](/img/default/pit.png)
Demand among home buyers has seen a modest recovery following initial post-referendum jitters, but with just 24 hours until Theresa May...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Bridging lending increases by 11.5% in 2016](/img/default/pit.png)
Demand for bridging loans surged last year, as a growing number of property investors turned to short-term finance solutions, which typically...
01 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Overseas investors exploit weak pound for cut-price UK property deals](/img/default/pit.png)
Overseas investors were increasingly active in the UK property market during 2016, accounting for a significant share of all transactions, according...
16 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Confidence in housing market ‘knocked’ by aggressive taxation and Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
Confidence in the UK housing market has weakened in recent months amid economic uncertainty, together with pressure on householders’ finances from...
06 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Edinburgh property investment volumes soar](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp rise in the number of overseas investors taking advantages of some ‘compelling income returns’ in Scotland,...
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla launches online property investment platform](/img/default/pit.png)
Zoopla has announced the launch of a new lending portal in partnership with Landbay and Bricklane that enables investors to fund property...
27 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Commercial property market hit hard after Brexit vote](/img/default/pit.png)
Activity levels in the UK’s commercial property market have slowed considerably following the UK vote to leave the European Union, as...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property transactions slip after the Brexit vote](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of residential property transactions fell by 0.9% between June and July, according to newly released figures from HM Revenue...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Top-end sales in London ‘now lower than trough of 2008’](/img/default/pit.png)
Fewer homes are now changing hands in prime central London than during the trough of 2008, fresh research shows. Looking specifically at...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property investor looks to profit from Brexit uncertainty](/img/default/pit.png)
Marco Robinson successfully predicted that the UK would leave the EU two years ago, he also said that corporate tax would...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property deals fall through as buyers get cold feet over Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
A significant number of house sales fell through in the immediate aftermath of the win for Brexit as buyers got cold...
30 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![International investors eye London property deals](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite widespread reports that international businesses are already pulling investment from the UK in light of the EU referendum result, one estate...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property investors demand Brexit clauses ahead of EU vote](/img/default/pit.png)
A growing number of property investors are adding clauses into contracts giving buyers the right to walk away from commercial property...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Investors snap up properties at auction](/img/default/pit.png)
Last month was a good one for the UK property auction sector, which continues to attract a wide array of national...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Is the influx of overseas investors a good sign for local investors?](/img/default/pit.png)
I’ve seen a sharp rise this year in the number of foreign investors looking to establish a presence or even expand...