Despite what you may have read in the press or seen on the TV, buying a repossessed property isn’t the simple road to riches that it’s often made out to be.  As with the purchase of any other house, there will be obstacles along the path to completion...

Click here to view the embedded video. It’s a time honoured phrase that’s just as apt for the property market as for any other - it can pay to cut out the middle man.  In fact, some estimates give a figure of 1 in 20 homes as being sold without the...

New House Reservations Up by 34% First the good news. In yesterday’s Independent newspaper housebuilders, Barratt, revealed that at the beginning of November their forward order book stood at £846.6 million, compared with £817.7 million in 2008. ...

The Housing Market: Reasons to be Cheerful The Council of Mortgage Lenders Quarter 3 Report will not be available until the end of this month; however, with a  Quarter 2 report headline that reads Possessions Fall and Arrears Flatten, things looked...

A brief tour of the Council of Mortgage Lenders website gives much food for thought; and it is obvoiusly a superb source of housing market statistics. We plan to publish (and comment on) these statistics on a regular basis.  However, we thought that a...