Should you, as a landlord for buy to let or for personal occupation, buy a brand-new home?

Well, let's start by looking at the numbers …

Over the last 10 years, 1,918 new homes have been built in the Bexley...

My analysis has shown that up to the end of the last quarter, Sidcup first time buyers purchased 191 Sidcup properties.  With wages rising at 2.8%, unemployment at a low rate of 4.2% (down from 4.6% from a year earlier and the...

I am of the opinion that buy to let investment in Sidcup, in the long-term, will bring substantial returns for landlords, irrespective of latest regulation and tax changes.

Taking a very conservative (with a small 'c')...

I have been doing some research, looking both at National and Regional reports on the demand and supply of property and people together with future projections on the economy, population and family demographics with some...

And if it does … who will be the winners and losers?

Those Sidcup people wanting property values to drop would be those 30 or 40 something's, sitting on a sizeable amount of equity and hoping to trade up (because the...

There is good news for Sidcup buy to let landlords as 'top of the range' well-presented properties are getting really decent rents compared to a year ago however, this rise in rents is thwarting many potential first time buyers...

It's been nearly 18 months since Sajid Javid, the Tory Government's Housing Minister published the White Paper “Fixing the Broken UK Housing Market”, meanwhile Sidcup property values continue to rise at 4.3% (year on year...

More than 7 babies have been born for every new home that has been built in Bexley since 2012, deepening the Sidcup housing shortage.

This discovery is an important...

The simple fact is we are not building enough properties. If the supply of new properties is limited and demand continues to soar with heightened divorce rates, i.e. one household becoming two, people living longer and...

A noteworthy number of buy to let landlords in Britain plan to buy more properties over the next year notwithstanding the frustrations, challenges and seismic changes in the private rented sector....