Latest Young Index results from Young Group show the beginnings of a rising trend; buy-to-let investors appear to be readying themselves for a return to the market as they believe property prices will stabilise and rise during the next 12 months. Results from the Q1 2009 survey of investor market sentiment ... Read More...
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The UK’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has reduced base rate by a further 0.5% and voted to begin quantitative easing, a less conventional economic stimulus to increase the money supply. Neil Young, CEO – Young Group, believes its greatest impact will be to broaden the divide between the ... Read More...
It is widely predicted that the UK’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will announce a further cut in base rate following February’s rate setting deliberations. Consensus is that this reduction will be at least 50 basis points, bringing the base rate down to a new all time ... Read More...
House price data for December 2008 issued today by the Land Registry indicates that UK house prices fell by 13.5% during 2008. Property portfolio managers Young Group takes the opportunity to set 2008’s house price movements in its wider context against equity and pension fund performance. Neil Young, ... Read More...
Today’s unprecedented 1.5 per cent cut in base rate is great news for those with tracker mortgages – and may also bring relief for those on variable rates. Buy-to-let investors at Young Group’s myBASE1 development in Southwark completed on their purchases earlier this year, the majority taking tracker rate mortgages; many ... Read More...
Commenting on today’s announcement that BAA will inject £230 million to London’s Crossrail project, Neil Young, CEO of property portfolio managers Young Group, welcomes the boost to property market confidence that the project will bring. BAA’s £230 million commitment to the Crossrail project comes hot on the heels of Canary Wharf ... Read More...
“Buy-to-let is arguably the world’s second oldest profession and is certainly alive and kicking. With the correct advice and an analytical, long term approach, good returns are there to be made. Latest results from the Young Index of market sentiment show buy-to-let investors are in it for the long term” Neil ... Read More...
Following reports that Grant Bovey has handed his Imagine Homes property investment company to HBoS, the concerns of property portfolio managers, Young Group’s CEO, Neil Young are for Bovey’s clients. Young Group is offering Imagine Homes’ purchasers access to the Group’s portfolio management service and elevation to Premier Client status. ... Read More...
The Bank of England’s surprise announcement to cut the UK’s base rate has brought good news to millions of homeowners currently on tracker mortgages – but Neil Young (CEO, Young Group) questions whether the benefit will be widespread. It was widely predicted that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ... Read More...
With news of the demise of Lehman Brothers, the respected 158 year old investment bank, on everyone’s lips it’s an opportune time to reflect on the performance of equity investments and tangible property assets. The Property Market: • Property prices can fall e.g. in the early 1990s, property in England fell by ... Read More...