Inflation Positive June 2015

After just one negative month the UK’s inflation rate returned to positive numbers in May with transport and food prices helping it up to 0.1%. A return to deflation may occur if oil prices start to fall again this summer and while this looks unlikely there is little upward inflationary

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Buy-to-Let Returns Predicted to Fall to 3.4%

The Telegraph recently reported (June 5, 2015): Britain’s biggest network of letting agents and property valuers, LSL Property Services has predicted that buy-to-let returns will be down by 62% in the next 12 months.   Total returns on buy-to-let property taking into account both rental income and capital growth will

Savills Property Finance Report & Non Bank Lenders

The latest De Montfort survey published last month put the property senior debt market share of non-bank lenders at 13.5%, but William Newsom of Savills indicated that the real figure may be closer to 20% given the volume of new players to have recently entered the market.