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…
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…
Access denied
Why borrowing short and lending long was always going to end in tears for Assetz Capital and their Access Account…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…