House price surveys explained

The BBC has compiled an article on the various, complex and PR generating industry of the House price surveys.

Read what they are and mean here

The inevitable future

The west will get poorer and we will have to work until we are older and older.

The futures so bright..................

Property investment prediction

A bear article on the future of UK land prices in Moneyweek magazine, penned by an advocate of penny share investing so has a questionable bias, but some interesting points slotted between the spin and bluster of the author.

Read article here

Make up your own truth....

Property price twitter -miserable

......heaven knows I'm miserable now, whatever next?

Let's hope it's not a ten ton bus, crashing into us.

Houses are simply too expensive for the young - Citiwire
London £1m house jump, rest of country falls - Telegraph
Uk house price falls to come - FT
UK overpriced by 30 percent - The Economist
Faltering house prices add to economic fears - Citiwire
RICS: RICS Housing Market Survey UK Feb 2011 pdf download
Housing market flat except in London - BBC
Housing market faces another miserable year - Independent
Property prices slide at fastest rate - Telegraph
Halifax: February Index pdf download

See all the property price tweets

Discounted landlord insurance

DPS - virtual agent

We have discussed in the past about how to hold your tenants deposit.

Anybody using the custodial scheme run by the Deposit Protection Service will be interested to know that they are now running a scheme that allows you to ask a question on how it works and then get a pretty instant answer.  Hence the name given to the initiative - the virtual agent.

Has anybody used it.  Is it any good?  Let us know your experiences.


Tenant referencing - instant results

Landbanking scams BBC twigs

The BBC has finally twigged what we at Property Hawk have been warning investors about for years.

Namely, that there are numerous companies out their preying on unsuspecting investors who are sold pieces of worthless land on the basis it will shortly be upgraded to development land.

As a former town planner I know that in this country the chances of getting permission to build on random pieces of land even next to built up areas is zero.

Be warned! 

As they say if an investment proposition seems to be good to be true. 

It almost invariably is!


Landlord insurance - professional rates