Keith Churchouse, director of Churchouse Financial Planning, says that many people put their money into what they considered to be safe pension schemes, which have gone on to collapse over the course of the last ten to 15 years. “There are many that are not very happy about that, and so many people have switched [...]

Andrew Moody reviews the advantages and drawbacks of buying your own premises and, depending on which way the market turns, considers whether buying property now could be a timely investment WITH COMMERCIAL PROPERTY VALUES FALLING by up to 25 per cent over the past two years, there have been few better opportunities for small business [...]

The latest Upad Rental Confidence Index shows that 61% of UK landlords feel more confident about the buy-to-let sector for March 2010, compared to February.

New research has revealed that residential housing has been a “better investment than cash, shares or bonds” over the last ten years. The figures from Halifax showed that buy-to-let landlords could have made a profit of up to 187 per cent in the ten years up until December 2009, reports the Financial Times. http://www.houseladder.co.uk/Property_News/2010/02/Buytolet_market_better_investment_than_cash_shares_or_bonds_1914.aspx

First-time buyers in the UK are being forced into renting for a longer period than they would like, one expert has stated. Alan Ward, chairman of the Residential Landlords Association