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Five ways to make money in a property crash 2008-06-16 07:18:17 Let’s face facts, we’re in the start of a propertycrash
, and if the 1989-1994 experience is anything to go by, then we could have another 4 years to go before things bottom out [that wasn't a prediction, by the way, this one could be shorter or longer].
The crash is being cursed by some, particularly [...]
Inflation Alert from the ONS (gosh, is that meant to be a surprise?) 2008-06-17 05:30:15 The Office of National Statistics has, today, announced what we all actually knew - namely that inflation is well ahead of the Government’s 2% target.
In fact, it’s currently running at either 3.3%, or 4.3% depending on which measure you take (the lower is the CPI, the higher the RPI.)
Leading the rise were food and non-alcoholic [...] Read more:Inflation
, Alert
UK Interest rates are basically being kept down by hope… 2008-06-19 07:23:49 There’s a lot of debate raging in the blogosphere at the moment about where interest rates should be.
Some of the arguments are, (like this one by William Buiter of the FT) to put it mildly, very technical.
Basically, though, there are two schools of though:
We should set interest rates based on what we know about the [...] Read more:Interest
Why do we count retail sales differently? 2008-06-27 07:34:29 Time for a bit of a rant.
I suspect that you, like me, are feeling some impact of the credit crunch, or at least the rate of inflation. We know that the “official” figures on inflation only show about 4%, but the real figure seems much higher in most things we buy regularly. (I don’t know [...] Read more:count
National Federation of Residential Landlords… 2008-06-25 10:44:21 At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, I’ve just been appointed a Director of the NationalFederation
of Residential Landlords (NFRL.)
The way it happened was slightly odd - back in April, at the last General Meeting, the Board had put a resolution in front of members asking for permission to enter into merger discussions [...]
Matthew Bretherton’s take on the mortgage issues… 2008-06-24 11:56:40 Matthew Bretherton, a freelance writer (and not, to my knowledge) an investor, has written a great article about what the current credit crunch means to a typical UK homeowner.
You can read his article, “From Smug To Mug”, here at money.co.uk
I like his conclusion:
But there’s not a lot of point moaning about it. We’ve had it [...] Read more:Matthew
Why I no longer use Yahoo! answers… 2008-06-22 08:06:14 Over the past six months, I’ve been trying to help people on Yahoo
! Answers UK, specifically when they ask questions about Property and Renting.
Today, I had three emails telling me that I’d violated their “guidelines” and that my answer had been deleted…
I wrote to them asking “why?”, but rather than replying, they sent me a [...] Read more:answers
Landlord Inventories - top tips 2008-07-09 05:20:18 I’ve been sent a review copy of Toby Hone’s excellent ebook this week. (More about that in a few days, when I’ve finished my comments to him.)
I’ve made a couple of suggestions to Toby about adding to the section he writes on page 42 about the importance of decent inventories, so I thought I’d blog [...] Read more:Landlord
NFRL / NLA merger - what on earth? 2008-07-09 04:35:15 On the 25th July, I announced that I had been appointed a Director of the National Federation of Residential Landlords.
Shortly after that, I was contacted by the Vice-Chairman of the NFRL, to express surprise at this! Apparantly, rather than have a full board meeting, three of the Directors phoned on the evening of the 23rd, [...]
Berkshire Property Networking - 14th July with Rob Moore 2008-07-07 03:36:01 Juswant & Sylvia Rai have asked my help in promoting a Property Networking meeting they’re having next week. I’m happy to do so… (If any other UK people want help in promoting their meetings, just mail me - let me know the date, and what’s happening.)
Their text follows:
I just wanted to keep you informed about [...] Read more:Berkshire
, Moore
Five ways to make money in a property crash - the sixth way 2008-07-03 15:45:02 About two weeks ago, I wrote “Five ways to make money in a propertycrash
” - and the feedback (particularly on the more detailed version available to subscribers at yourpropertyexpert.com has been mostly positive.
However, one important bit of feedback to me was that, actually, I’m making things too complex. This was really brought home last [...]
Life on the move… (techy post) 2008-07-26 14:46:40 Well, it’s time for another of my irregular techy posts.
At home, I have a fairly sophisticated office (3-6 servers, depending on how you count virtual hosts, 3 laptops, a variety of operating systems.)
On the road, however, it’s a different story.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 9400 about 2 years ago. It’s a huge beast, with a [...]
NLA / NFRL merger - court cases start 2008-07-26 07:26:46 Well, I’ve just learnt that the first legal action in the NFRL/NLA merger has started. Apparently, the NLA have served an injunction against the NFRL President asking him to hand over things like membership lists (which he is refusing to do, since his legal advice is that the NLA takeover wasn’t valid, and therefore handing [...] Read more:cases
Bank of England minutes - and WHAT will interest rates do next? 2008-07-23 04:55:58 This morning, the Bank of England
published the minutes
from the meeting of the MPC on the 9th-10th July.
A few interesting things in there, not least of which is that UK house prices have now falled 8% from their peak, and that mortgage approvals are only being given at 1/3 of the rate they were [...]
Bye Bye Stamp Duty? Oh, wait a moment… 2008-08-05 14:08:57 Well, the front page of “The London Paper” this evening ought to win a prize for something, if not actually good journalism.
The headline read: “BROWN POSTED TO SCRAP STAMP DUTY”, and the article pretty much gave no more detail, except it managed to use fewer CAPITAL LETTERS.
The BBC, as ever, was somewhat more balanced. They [...] Read more:Stamp
, Bye Bye
Silver Lining for Savers (article by Matthew Bretherton) 2008-07-31 08:36:38 Matthew Bretherton has written a good new article at money.co.uk about who is gaining from the credit conditions.
He points out that the growing spread between base rates and actual rates cuts both ways:
…the interest banks are prepared to pay out on savings accounts are 1.3% higher than the last time the Bank of England base [...] Read more:Silver
, Matthew
, Silver Lining
Property Training / Networking event in Milton Keynes, 21st September 2008-08-29 03:30:58 Vanessa Warwick has asked me to promote the event
that she and Nick are running.
As ever, I’m happy to promote property and training events, providing they actually give the date / time / subject and cost. What I don’t promote is “events” that don’t provide any information but just ask people to sign up to [...] Read more:Training
, Milton
, September
Northant Property Networking - tomorrow (26th) 2008-08-25 03:36:28 While I was on holiday, Matthew Moody asked me to help promote the Northants Property Meeting on the 26th.
Here’s what Matthew has to say about the event:
Location:
Northampton
Time:
6pm-10pm
Date:
Tuesday 26th August 2008
Loc:
Upstairs Restaurant Delapre Golf Club Eagle Drive Nene Valley Way Northampton N44 7DU
Rail:
Northampton
Speaker:
Darren Pledger + Warren Morris + Mr X on Read more:tomorrow
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