IAP Analysis

Buy-to-Let Survey Highlights Optimism - 08/01/2008
While the pessimists believe the buy-to-let industry is set for doom and gloom, time and again evidence seems to emerge suggesting those inside involved in buying investment property take a rather different view.
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Nine Reasons For Interest Rate Optimism? - 21/12/2007
Those interested in investing in property may have wondered in recent months when the Bank of England was going to cut interest rates, with the slowdown in the market becoming increasingly evident and yet the monetary policy committee (MPC) voting consistently to hold on and wait until the smoke cleared on the credit crunch.
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Optimism Still Reigns in Buy-to-Let - 14/12/2007
Amid the recent headlines in some quarters over the buy-to-let industry, some looking at buying investment property might ask if the industry is a busted flush. Is it something which was a good idea in the boom times but after years of meteoric rise will now fizzle out and fall to Earth with a whimper, a victim of the wider property market slowdown? Much of what has been spoken and written recently has predicted such a downfall.
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Cut May Reignite Property Market - 07/12/2007
The last few weeks has seen increasingly feverish speculation about whether or not the Bank of England monetary policy committee (MPC) would cut interest rates in December. While many commentators had responded to the November inflation report's hint of cuts to come with predictions of two or even three cuts in 2008, it was only recently that the expectation of a December cut seemed to gather momentum.
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To Hold or to Cut? The MPC Dilemma - 30/11/2007
Interest rate decisions by the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) are occasionally predictable, uncontroversial affairs, but since the credit crunch struck economists have agreed that 5.75 per cent was as high as interest rates were likely to go. As the economy sees hints of a slowdown and the housing market clear signs of one, speculation has grown over when rates would fall.
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