Last week I asked whether it was time to start buying again. Among those who responded 65 per cent said no, the market has further to fall and 35 per cent said yes, we’re over the worst.
My own view is this: the market does have further to fall, but yes, we are over the worst [...]

When markets fall people get nervous, sit on the sidelines and wait for things to bottom out.
Calling the low point of a market is, however, very tricky, which is why most experts will tell you that the best possible scenario is to buy close to the bottom – better to make a small short-term loss [...]

I read with some interest that Brixton Estates’ Tim Wheeler is quoting Bob Dylan:
“The apocalyptic opening lines of Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower seem to capture the beleaguered mindset of the UK commercial real estate market.”
Tim Wheeler, that name rings a bell – wasn’t he the lead singer of Ash? Anyway, anything you can [...]

I’ve just discovered what happens when you finally pull the cork from a bottle of pent up housing market fury. The results are colourful, to say the least.

At first I was rendered speechless (and nearly blind) by this teletext-inspired nightmare - a creation, I suspect, that was fuelled by late night Pro Plus binges with [...]