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Best BTL ROI around London?
Where is the best return on investment (ROI) for 1-bed BTL properties (house/flat) within 1 hr commuting from London? Budget appx £125k + couple of grands for DIY renovation before letting.
Paying not to be Spied On
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/att_charging_cu.html https://gigaom.com/2015/02/19/dont-let-att-mislead-you-about-its-29-privacy-fee/ Your ISP is in a unique position when it comes to your websurfing habits. They know pretty much everything you do: illegal downloads, who you bank with, the 'one-handed…
Name and Shame councils that underbuild
To the HPC crew, why haven't you already done this How hard can it be to make a simple website which lists all the councils, their local plan, if it is achieved etc Rate them and name the 50 worst councils (lowest per capita builders) Make information easy to access and people will see and possibly act
Tags: stock | market | crash | warren buffett indicator Warning: Stocks Will Collaps
It is only a matter of time before the stock market plunges by 50% or more, according to several reputable experts. “We have no right to be surprised by a severe and imminent stock market crash,” explains Mark Spitznagel, a hedge fund manager who is notorious for his hugely profitable billion-dollar bet on the 2008 crisis.…
Have we experienced a real rise in living standards as Osborne claims?
Osborne claimed on Wednesday that real household disposable income..."will be higher in 2015 than in 2010. And it confirms they are set to grow strongly every year for the rest of the decade". However, is this the relevant measure? This does not account for VAT, which is subtracted from disposable income to obtain…
What is the optimum % of government expenditure of GDP
With Osbournes latest budget being questioned on where he will raise some of finances to fund certain projects, there is the likelihood of more austerity in the next few years. So what percentage if GDP could be seen as an optimum level and why (if anyone knows)?…
Big stuff
Interest rates are just as likely to fall as they are to rise. However, they may not do either of those things. This has been announced as forward guidance has now changed (again). Robert Peston described what the Chief economist of the BOE stated as "big stuff". And that's my report for today :)…
FTSE to reach 7,000 by Christmas?
I've got a good feeling about this.;) https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/panic-over-ftse-100-hitting-102443052.html My Portfolio's looking pretty pukka as the moment.
Largest housing rally ever across the UK
The largest housing rally ever to happen in the UK took place today. The National Housing Federation headed up the rally which took place predominantly in London, but most cities showed support. Difficult to find a mention of it on the BBC website but other places seem to be covering it. Seems things are starting to…
Union to Strike for the Right for Drunks to Drive Trains
http://www.lbc.co.uk/tube-strike-announced-for-saturday-evening-105702 Perhaps if you drive a train with 800 (?) people on board you could at least turn up to work sober. Why on earth did this drunk get a second chance?
A policy unravelling?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31962179 Osborne seems to causing some confusion in claiming that the post election cuts will be no more than we have endured in the past five years. The claim is not supported by the OBR and seems to presume massive cuts in police, defence, tax avoidance and welfare. Smoke and mirrors?…
Mother FOMO
Or how Snapchat (revenues ~$0) is worth more than Campbells Soup http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/the-fuzzy-insane-math-that-s-creating-so-many-billion-dollar-tech-companies
If house prices fall rents will rise. Why don't crashtrolls get this?
A common refrain among those who don't own property is a gleeful "just wait until..." aimed at those who do. Usually it's "just wait till interest rates rise", but whatever the just-wait-until is about, they then go on to predict a collapse in house prices after which they themselves will step over the wreckage and snap up…
Budget 2015 - A budget of no consequence.
Tomorrow is budget day. Every year this day happens, however, this time it happens within 3 months of a General Election. As such, it will be used to bribe voters into voting for the Conservative Party. Of course, a few month along, there will be the autumn budget which will reverse all the vote-buying decisions made in…
No country for young men — UK generation gap widens
Go ahead, shoot me. But the facts, based on extensive new research carried out by the Financial Times speak for themselves :) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/60d77d08-b20e-11e4-b380-00144feab7de.html#axzz3Sgnh2r8h
FED say's
they may start to tighten by mid year..................but then again they might not. Well that was helpful. Glad I waited for that nugget :eek:…
The dissapearing property ladder
Viewpoint article on the BBC looking at "the disappearing property ladder". A couple of highlights from the article which hit home with me.... Think Lord Best has used a bit of poetic license to get his point across!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31762127 Only reason I came across this article was that it was in the…
London house prices continuing to fall, says Rics
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31839990 http://www.cityam.com/211408/uk-house-prices-accelerate-drop-london-moderates I did think that this was true in Ealing (my patch of London) but had no evidence. This has got to be good news. Yes? No?
Capitalism vs Socialism
South Korea has GDP of $1,305,000,000,000, North Korea's is $12,380,000,000 despite South Korea having only double the population of her northern neighbour. If South Korea continues to grow at a rate of 3%, it's economy will grow by more than three times North Korea's total GDP! At least everyone earns about the same money…
End of debt based money system?...
Hi all, this is a quote from UK Column I thought this might be relief from the continuous tit for tat over housing market... This fundamental court case is a story being suppressed in the media.... A landmark Canadian federal appellate-court ruling could conceivably lead to the cancellation of Canada’s debt-based money…

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