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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Exciting times at Osprey. As many of you will have noticed we have recently had a subtle “rebrand” from Osprey Lettings to Osprey Sales and Lettings. A small but important change and, further to demand from clients and new investor…
From the laptop of one of Osprey Sales & Letting’s Directors: Rob Brown Buy-to-let landlords are increasingly looking to move out of central London to more affordable areas where higher yielding property investments are available, according to the National Landlords…
