The Christmas holiday always shows a high level of traffic on Rightmove. People scroll through the listings when they have time on their hands over the holiday. This unfortunately doesn’t guarantee you a sale as a high percentage of the people looking aren’t serious about moving yet. It is not until the decorations come down […]
Property investment is a very popular asset class in the UK. It is a great opportunity to build long term returns. Now to the important stuff! Due to property investments being a popular asset class in the UK, the brilliant opportunity to build long term returns remains clear, and this is due to income […]
As the seasons start to change and we now enter Autumn, we are once again very busy with new enquiries. With the children back at school, and holidays over the race for buyers to be in a new home in time for Christmas has begun. The best time of the year to sell your home […]
A guide to the legal process of buying a house To many people, the process of buying a house can seem to be a long-winded, frustrating and sometimes mysterious process, veiled in legal jargon. Below is a guide as to what is going on throughout the process and what your Solicitor will be doing for […]
We find ourselves writing in September a residential property forecast for the East Midlands. Talk about unknown unknowns and how difficult it is to make predictions or indeed plans, for the residential market, the investment market or indeed any market! Who knows what will happen or where we will be in 6 months time. We […]
The Chancellor delivered his Autumn 2017 Budget against a backdrop of no overall Government majority, party disunity and a recent marked slowdown in economic growth. So not much room for drama! Most commentators seem to think it was a cautious Budget. Below, we summarise the key highlights from a property perspective; Stamp Duty: With immediate […]
The number of properties bought by landlords has almost halved in a year after a tax and regulatory clampdown, prompting a leading banking body to downgrade its forecasts for buy-to-let lending in 2017 and 2018. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said buy-to-let had had a weak start to 2017, with lending falling faster than expected […]
Osprey Property News isn’t just about local area news, it’s also about the property industry and even the national (and sometimes global) economy. We want to ensure our ‘news room’ is giving you all of the latest property news and updates that COULD affect you in buying/selling your own property or building your investment portfolio. […]
Straight from the desk of one of our directors Rob Brown: You may be feeling some what battered and bruised as a Landlord in England after the Chancellor seems to have intentions to bash up landlords, and there are a number of sticks that have been deployed to execute this beating; Any increased fee to […]
Straight from the desk of one of our Directors Rob Brown: As you may have read recently, every year we come out with our predictions for the residential property market. On the whole, these are pretty good and are well received by our clients. Predictions are becoming horribly hard to make in this increasingly volatile […]