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The property crash that wasn’t

Why the experts predicted a property plunge – and why they got it wrong So it seems we swerved the…
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Knowing which way the wind is blowing

How to interpret the latest house price predictions Within a week of each other, both these headlines recently appeared in…
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Access denied

Why borrowing short and lending long was always going to end in tears for Assetz Capital and their Access Account…
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Analyse that! Whither the housing market now?

Or Did Liz Truss Break the Crystal Ball? Here we go again! Or do we? After years of warnings that…
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Special skills pull special deal out of the fire

“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for money, I can tell…
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CapitalStackers development funding passes £150m

Raising £540,000 for a development of 9 detached executive homes in North Yorkshire has taken CapitalStackers’ deals past the milestone…
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Stamping out the great lease fleece – an update

Back in December 2020, we highlighted the highly immoral practice [1] of housebuilders selling to new homeowners, but retaining the…
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Are house price forecasters finally justified in using the C-word?

As we reported in September [1], the property market continued to boom despite the direst predictions of experts. But given recent…
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The unintended consequences of the State-backed Covid Recovery Schemes

There is an unwritten law that the larger the scale on which a Government tries to help, the more the…
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The housing market. Bubble or squeak?

The eager clamour from experts and economists to forecast the bursting of the UK property “bubble” is becoming ever more…
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Britain needs competent P2P operators more than ever

Shouldn’t the FCA proposals to ban promotion of P2P property development lending differentiate between pooled and direct lending? What will…
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Change the record, Dr Hindsight

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain once remarked when an overexcited journalist transmuted the illness of a…

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