Latest Property Advice

• A home away from home
  

  Published 06th Sep 2007

  Taking into account the attractive returns on today’s buy-to-let properties, it begs the question as to why a growing number of Brits prefer to pump their extra cash into a holiday home than buy a property for purely rental purposes

• Patience advised with your place in the sun
  

  Published 06th Sep 2007

  Unexpected problems abroad can rear their heads more frequently than most would imagine whilst abroad and planning is imperitive to make sure that the legalities and tax liabilities of home ownership in another country don’t cause undue financial stress

• Top tips for buying abroad
  

  Published 06th Sep 2007

  With the rise of low cost airlines, it is now cheaper and easier than ever to fly abroad

• Joint Tenants or Tenants-in-Common
  

  Published 05th Sep 2007

  Our flat is held in mine and my partner’s names as joint tenants

• Call for new ‘green homes’ action
  

  Published 05th Sep 2007

  It has called for local councillors to be able to consult with local residents on whether to reduce the amount of planning permission required to install a microgeneration system

• Rural Scotland ‘out of reach’
  

  Published 04th Sep 2007

  Housing in rural areas in Scotland is characterised by higher prices, far fewer first-time buyers, lower levels of social housing and much higher proportions of second homes than in urban areas, according to the latest annual Bank of Scotland Rural Housing Review..

• BTL investors discover Lincoln
  

  Published 04th Sep 2007

  When it comes to seeking out cities for buy-to-let investors to find property in, there may be a tendency for some to think of the big provincial cities where large-scale renewal has city living and mushrooming developments of flats at its heart