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View Article  Property Investors Unfazed By the Credit Crunch & Still Buying Property Abroad

Experienced investors aren’t fazed by the credit crunch and still intend to buy property, especially in foreign markets, the Jet-to-Let Magazine Annual Conference survey has revealed. 

The Jet-to-Let Magazine 2008 Annual Conference recently took place at The Hilton Metropole in London. The conference was attended by a wide range ...   more »

View Article  Dominic Farrell: Beware the inflation risk to cash balances
Dear Investor

We are all now back after a long weekend of rest which my staff thoroughly deserved after a hectic few months with property sales, strategy meetings and the Jet-to-Let Magazine Annual Conference.  I spent a few days in the west of Ireland and am now back in Liverpool ...   more »

View Article  Dominic Farrell: 48% Capital Growth in 22 months and Jet-to-Let Finance
Dear Investor

Wow, what a weekend!  It was great to see so many familiar as well as new faces at the Jet-to-Let Magazine Annual Conference in London this weekend.  The conference provided insight into the credit crunch and how to get around it, the prime investment countries and regions for ...   more »

View Article  Banks are only as safe as houses

As mortgage lenders struggle to shore up their balance sheets, a new crisis may be on the way from the buy-to-let market

House prices are already falling by more than 25 per cent a year. That is the figure the experts at M&G have come up with by extrapolating the ...   more »

View Article  Abbey increases mortgage rates and Egg quits mortgage business

Abbey, Britain’s third-largest lender, increased its mortgage rates last night as Citigroup, the world’s biggest bank, stopped offering home loans to British borrowers.

With the credit crunch continuing to bring misery to homeowners across the country, Citigroup announced that Egg, its internet bank, had halted mortgage business.

The ...   more »

View Article  Bank of England unlikely to cut interest rate, despite pleas

Homeowners face further worry today as the Bank of England is set to resist calls for a cut in interest rates, despite a fall in house prices and mounting evidence of a sharp slowdown in the economy.

The Bank is expected to decide that rising inflation means that it must ...   more »

View Article  Mortgages: Nationwide raises rates

Nationwide building society announced today it was increasing the cost of its fixed-rate mortgages by up to 0.3%.

The changes, which come into force tomorrow, wipe out some of the rate reductions made by the lender last month.

The group is increasing the rate of its best two-year fixed-rate mortgage ...   more »

View Article  Dominic Farrell: UK Property Market – Ignore the Noise, Look at the Trend
Dear Investor

Having had a great Saturday at Twickenham for the Guinness Premiership Final, I am now back in Liverpool preparing for the Jet-to-Let Magazine Annual Conference in London this coming weekend.  I am pleased to report that the conference is now full with a substantial increase on attendance over last ...   more »

View Article  Negative equity hits 250,000 - and there is worse to come

After months of gloomy forecasts, analysts have finally confirmed the news that homeowners had been dreading for months: that large numbers of British householders have slipped into negative equity.

According to the investment bank Citigroup, a quarter of a million of them now owe more than their properties are worth ...   more »