Monthly Archives: March 2017

Commentary on March / April Property Investor´s Factfile

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March / April 2017 Property Investor´s Factfile The Property Investor Blog´s monthly factfile aims to present relevant data including national / London house prices, the latest buy to let Limited Company (SPV) loan rates, LIBOR / SWAP rates, rental data, mortgage debt figures and information on the first-time buyer sector.  Some noteworthy observations from the last month are outlined below: The Nationwide house price index reported a drop of 0.3% between February and March 2017, annual growth softening to 3.5% as well as “some convergence in regional price growth, with the gap between weakest and strongest performing regions narrowest since 1978.” Rightmove´s most recent national asking price index indicated a 1.27% rise in prices between February and March and (arguably more reliable) data from the Land Registry reported a 0.59% drop between December and January[1]; In Greater London, Westminster´s noteworthy property price growth of 2.52%[2] between November and December 2016 … [Read More]

Bisnow´s Financial Market and Real Estate Investment Event

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Below is a summary of an event run by Bisnow (London) in late February that grouped a number of property industry figures to discuss current trends in strategic funding and other related topics.  Although relatively London-centric in terms of content, the discussions also touched on the broader market´s reaction to the referendum result, the long term effects of a seemingly entrenched low interest rate environment, foreign investor´s appetite to fund deals post-Brexit, ongoing risks and the emergence of the build to rent sector: Paul Clark, Chief Investment Officer at The Crown Estate started the morning´s discussion elaborating on the business´s 3% return in 2016 as a reflection of post-referendum mild volatility. As the UK´s largest property manager with urban stock-holdings valued at £1 billion (and an interesting barometer of market performance as a whole), Clark reported that the slowdown was not as acute as … [Read More]