Month: November 2020

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As Hounslow First-time Buyers are Being Locked Out of the Hounslow Property Market – Rents Have Fallen by 3.6%

With the banks reducing the number of low deposit mortgages (i.e. deposit of 10% and below) since Covid-19 hit in the spring, this has meant that the number of Hounslow first-time buyers has been decreasing quickly, […]

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Each Hounslow landlord could be hit by a £31,680 bill

With the second lockdown starting on the 5th November 2020, does this mean Hounslow landlords can wave goodbye to their Hounslow buy-to-let investment and see it go up in smoke on the bonfire of buy-to-let dreams, like a Guy Fawkes puppet?

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Hounslow Homebuyers Have Saved £1,799,400 Thanks to the Stamp Duty Holiday – Yet Many Could Miss Out

Hounslow homebuyers and Hounslow landlords purchasing residential property have saved £1,799,400 since the Chancellor reduced Stamp Duty on 8th July 2020, yet many more Hounslow homebuyers could miss out.

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Hounslow’s ‘Generation Rent’ to Become ‘Generation Buy’?

Boris Johnson has attracted both praise and horror in equal measure with a new plan for 95% mortgages to help beleaguered first time buyers to get on the property ladder, but would that expose UK taxpayers to too much risk? In this article I discuss the implications of what that would mean both nationally and locally in Hounslow.