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 […]
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 landlords, we have made an encouraging start in the estate agency market. We have been […]
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 Association (NLA). The move follows a fall in rental demand in central London, which largely […]
There was no shock or horror for landlords in yesterday’s Budget. Many were disappointed that stamp duty rates were not revised down, or tinkered with so that first time buyers were exempted; no such luck. However, we think more importantly there was a stop to the tax increases and punishment of private sector landlords. So […]