Brownfield Sites Hold The Key

As the student population grows the need for further student property developments increases. Ever more so, local communities are objecting to planning permission for new student accommodation developments and local councils are forever trying to balance out the needs...

Is the London Property Market Cooling?

Recent headlines have claimed that the London property market is cooling, slowing down, flat-lining or in trouble (depending on which newspapers you read). But the truth is a little bit more complicated, and perhaps not as negative.   The data that has triggered...

The only way is luxury

In recent years a gap has developed and widened between the stereotype of how students live and the reality of how they want to, and often do live. The stereotype, based firmly on The Young Ones, a TV sitcom set in Thatcher’s Britain, where a group of diverse students...

Is London holding student property development back?

The London property boom seems to be cursed and praised in equal measure. Some people think that the London property market is a bubble, which will pop in the next year or two and will do terrible damage to the British economy when it does so. They also claim that the...

The Private Rental Sector – A Growing Market

Due to a string of social demographic, political and economic factors in the early 1990’s, demand from tenants in the UK for private rented property started to rise quickly. This rapid change brought about the inception of ‘Buy to Let Mortgages’ which was introduced...