Not as a surprise, the highest price per square meter is in London. The prices here doubled between 2004 and 2016.
However, the difference between the lowest price per square meter in the UK (Blaenau Gwent in Wales – £777) and the highest (the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea – £19,400) is enormous. The main causes and some of the effects on the long term you can find in this article on PropertyWire.
Caliente is the Spanish word for ‘hot’, but also the new Benjamin Moore color for 2018.
It is definitely stronger than the shades the famous paint producer got us used to in the last years. However, it is a good way to spice up a house exterior or to give some attitude to a boring interior.
Read the full story of the Benjamin Moore colour for 2018 in this article on Architectural Digest.
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To put it in a context, Caliente is a special type of red.
The 2018 trends do not stop here, for what Benjamin Moore is concerned. You can find the entire suggested pallet for any type of redecoration you have in mind for next year right here.
Wallpaper is a versatile decorating element that can fit all spaces, large of small. One of the primal benefits it that it fills up an open space or it can make an open plan flat come together as one.
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For most of you, just the word ‘wallpaper’ might bring up memories of your grandmother’s house, but keep your minds (and eyes!) open for the new wallpaper trends that started this year.
We are talking about:
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Small spaces can also benefit from some extra color or shape brought easily with some wallpaper design. Use pieces of a wallpaper design that blends in or comes out of the general design by:
Inspired by this great article on Freshome:
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Owners returned from the summer holiday with an appetite for selling. Latest research showed that new property listings are up by a fifth last month, compared to August.
Highest rise can be noticed in Oxford, while London – South East is on the fifth place.
And if you’re wondering about a region in particular, check out the entire article on Property Reporter:
Apparently, most landlords go for childless couples and most agree that students are not the best tenants possible. But these are only the extremes.
In between there are single young professionals and families. The first is, evidently, more desirable than the last.
Proud to be the WINNER of The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show for THE BEST INNOVATIVE COMPANY OF THE YEAR!! Thank you! 🙌🏻
Posted by Victor Michael Estate Agents on Friday, 6 October 2017
The Victor Michael team was a winner at the Property Investor & Homebuyer Show this year.
Victor Michael received the award for the best innovative company of the year. The show happened between 6 – 7 October 2017 at London ExCeL International Exhibition Centre and it is the UK’s longest running exhibition of property.
It seems that interest rates will stay low for a while yet, and that has encouraged investors to look to commercial property in the UK for a steady and reliable yield. Over the last 17 years, we have seen income make up the majority of the return enjoyed by investors.
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While stability in time is certain both for bonds and investments in the right properties, what is the right choice for investors. The analysis on Property Division takes a lot of variables into discussion and it is of help for investors in London nowadays.
Latest study shows that one in 20 properties on the rent market are energy inefficient. That ends up in a higher energy bill for the tenants.
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Valuable advice for Buy-to-Let landlords to be ready for 2018:
More in this article on Property Division:
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If the housing plan reaches its target, the number of new homes built will definitely satisfy – or at least keep pace with – the demand. We are talking about 100,000 new and affordable homes each year.
The target seems now very far away and the main cause is lack of lands to build on. Latest research and solutions suggest swamping green-belt lands might be an efficient answer. This measure means that new properties can be built on lands on which the protection will be removed, in return for creating a new area of protected land elsewhere.
The same resolution to build on green-belt lands was promoted a year ago. At that point, the opposition was strong enough against the idea.
Last year the question was if swamping green-belt lands was a step in the right direction, as this article on Property Reporter puts it. Since a year after the specialists reach the same point and with the same resolution, maybe it is the only answer.