News and opinion
Buy pass operation?
Mortgage funding the lifeblood of the housing market continues to flow sluggishly resulting in a chronic market malaise.… Read More
Market hits meltdown within hours of Budget
Thus screamed “Estate Agent Today” in the wake of the budget announcement of a Stamp Duty hike for properties sold… Read More
Property Ombudsman supports Safe Agents
Christopher Hamer, the Property Ombudsman, has expressed concern at the large number of unregulated letting agents and… Read More
Our Place Our Plan
There has been a lot of coverage in the press about the Governments plans to change the planning system and to give more of a… Read More
Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards
November 2007 we drew on the US experience to sound a note of caution about what we felt were unsustainably high house prices… Read More
Telling it how it is
For some reason another local estate agent has got into the habit of complaining to us about the tone of our regular market… Read More
Stamp Duty Concession Ending
Time is running out for for first time buyers in Wolverhampton and Bilston who want to benefit from the Government's stamp duty… Read More
Why are movers not moving?
This question posed by the Council of Mortgage Lenders in a recent newsletter shows that it is not only First Time Buyers who… Read More
Feeling the Crunch in 2012
The results of the latest Bank of England Survey into Credit conditions look disturbingly like those seen when interbank lending… Read More