Latest Property Advice

• Housing expert wary of building on landfill or flood plane sites
  

  Published 06th Jul 2007

  David Snell, a consultant at BuildStore and author of the book 'Building Your Own Home', suggested that building on flood planes and landfill sites was 'technically' a possibility

• Choosing the right mortgage
  

  Published 06th Jul 2007

  A mortgage has two main ingredients: the capital, which is the amount of money you borrow, and the interest, which is charged on the capital until you have paid it back

• Is the Taxman Cracking Down on Buy-to-Let Landlords?
  

  Published 03rd Jul 2007

  There have been some alarmist newspaper articles recently claiming the Tax man is about to crack-down on thousands of buy-to-let landlords

• Do Students Benefit From the Buy-to-Let Property Market?
  

  Published 03rd Jul 2007

  The residential buy-to-let sector has long benefited from student rentals in university cities and towns - often this demographic makes up the core of its client base

• The saving grace of interest rates
  

  Published 01st Jul 2007

  Brits are still in the mood to save, with interest rates already favourable for savers and predicted to become more so over the next few months

• Cash in on the smoking ban
  

  Published 01st Jul 2007

  As the UK’s smokers mull over the impending ban on lighting up in public, one incentive to stub out their last fag is the potential profits to be made from investing their ciggy money in the markets instead

• Save thousands in just twelve months
  

  Published 01st Jul 2007

  British smokers packing in the fags come 1 July 2007 could typically save between £2,000-£3,000 on their life insurance premiums, and heavy smokers will double that with the amount they save in their first year of quitting