Real Estate | Property Investment

The US housing market has been in recovery for going on 2 years now, and the recovery was started and has been largely driven by bargain hunters buying good properties at low prices. As the buying spree rolled on, prices rose, and as inventories became constrained prices rose faster. So, prices rose, but is it too late to make money on a US housing investment?

More homes are coming onto the US housing market, perhaps signalling an end to the inventory issues that have badly restricted the market over the last several months. The increase in availability is as reported by two major listing sites in the country.

The UK residential property sector is prime for investment, with the balance between prices, finance opportunities and demand just right. However, like all good things, this must come to an end and time is running out for those hoping to take advantage of current market conditions.

Gross mortgage lending is on the rise, thanks to an increase in remortgage activity. Data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) revealed that lending grew by five per cent in April, although house price lending fell slightly compared to March.

Construction in London will be unable to keep up with demand for residential stock between now and 2022. A new report from Knight Frank revealed that despite a substantial increase in development activity in many areas of the capital...

Panama is a country that often flies under the radar but savvy investors will know that the tide is turning. Ongoing growth, investment and expansion in the region are attracting the attention of investors - Panama is certainly a country on the up.

Residential property sales in the UK are now at their highest level since January 2010, according to the residential market report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Activity is certainly starting to return to the market...

Home sales in the UK have hit a 3 year high according to the latest data from RICS. According to the industry body its members handled an average of 17.9 sales in the three months ending May...

Although it has faced a raft of criticism since its launch, the government's Help to Buy Scheme has got off to a strong start. The programme is comprised of a mortgage guarantee option and an equity loan component.

Average rental yields across the UK are falling, according to new statistics for May. Countrywide's Monthly Lettings Index revealed a drop of 0.1 per cent occurred last month. However, the integrated property service stresses that yields remain strong...

Opportunities abound in the buy-to-let sector, as room-for-rent numbers continue to fall. According to research from easyroommate.co.uk, a lack of rooms and consistent demand from renters has been pushing up rents....

Norway's oil fund has purchased a GBP 250m portfolio of suburban warehouses in the U.K. as it moves forward with plans to increase its property assets. The Norwegian Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, is buying 11 warehouses...

According to the latest release of the Irish Banking Federation's Housing Market Monitor transaction volumes in the republic increased 14.4% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year...

According to the latest news from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, some 64% of first time buyers now rely on the bank of Mum and Dad in order to get their foot on the first rung of the property ladder...

Uproar over suggestions that British taxpayer money could be used to back the mortgages of rich overseas property buyers could dampen enthusiasm for the Help to Buy scheme in the UK...

The latest release of the Knight Frank's Prime Central London Index increased a slight 0.3 percent in May from the previous month. It also showed prices up 3.2 percent from the start of the year and 7.2 percent from a year earlier...

If anyone out there is still in any doubt that the US commercial investment sector is in recovery then news like this will make them fewer and farther between. GE Capital, General Electric's financial arm, has agreed to sell an $807 million portfolio...

Location, location, location is no longer the mantra of the property sector and it seems buyers now have other concerns. According to research from Aviva, people are increasingly going in search of homes completed to a high specification...

It seems there is a growing trend of being too posh to pay in central London and buyers of luxury property are increasingly wanting prime real estate without the price tag...

Article Four is now in effect and landlords need special planning permission to convert a single family home into a rental property of three or more unrelated tenants...

Last week was a big week for the UK's growing and increasingly vital private rented sector, or rather the regulation, or lack thereof. The Scottish government published a review of its strategy for the PRS...

The dynamics of London's rental market are changing, according to a new report commissioned by Cluttons. Professor Michael Ball of Reading University found that almost half of the capital's population...