The publication of the CML’s half-yearly stats on BTL lending generated a lot of ‘end is nigh’ headlines … Such as:
•    The Buy-To-Let Chickens Come Home To Roost (Guardian)
•    Buy-To-Let Backfires (Daily Mail)
Not quite sure what a backfiring chicken coming home to roost would look like, but you get the general idea… investors are in [...]

News reaches us of harsh happenings over at The Shire. The Hobbits, it seems, are facing an enemy of truly awesome proportions.
Not the demonic Lord Sauron with his Cradle of Filth threads; not the bad ass Black Riders; not even the plug ugly Orcs with their anger issues and gross dental hygiene …
Nah, this is [...]

Pssst! Fancy a real bargain? A property at well below its genuine market value? And how about nabbing it without using any of your own money?
Ok. Now find a few more cut-price lovelies, repeat the process, and you, me old mucka, will be well on your way to becoming a champagne sipping, Ferrari driving, villa-in-the-south-of-France-owning  [...]

Here are the top 20 UK Areas and Regions that people searched for on FindaProperty.com during July.

Lordy! Strong words indeed from Trevor Kent with regards the government’s will they, won’t they debacle over stamp duty earlier this week.
I have to say when I heard one of the suggestions being mooted was a stamp duty ‘holiday’ – as opposed to outright abolition or reform– I raised a sceptical eyebrow.
So I was rather [...]

I get regular news bulletins and opinion pieces from the excellent MoneyWeek, and they’re usually fairly feisty – especially when it comes to the housing market.
Last week John Stepek got in a right old strop when he read a piece in the FT suggesting that all is not lost because there is still a lot [...]

Ahhhh, Seattle - home of Sub Pop, Starbucks and mutant dogs.
Let me explain. The very amusing blog Photoshop Disasters led me to a very odd property listing in Shoreline, Seattle.
As I flicked through the photos all appeared to be in order: 4 bedrooms, large living room, modern kitchen.
But then on the 7th picture in the [...]

It ain’t the workin’ man’s blues, it ain’t the lovin’ blues … it’s the subprime mortgage crisis blues!
A catchy animated take on the US housing market from the Explanotions team on Current TV…

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Here are the top 20 areas that people searched for on FindaProperty.com during June.

I was browsing through our South West pages today in search of a wreck when I came across this three-sided curiosity.
It’s the entrance to a now defunct underground reservoir and was originally commissioned by the Duke of Bedfordshire (more here: Legendary Dartmoor).
Being a duke (ie: minted) he didn’t employ some local brickie to knock a [...]