The Altering Pace of the Housing Market in the UK

United Kingdom’s housing market faced a severe downturn in 2007 when the recession hit the world economy. As a result, things got so ugly that it became extremely tough for the home owners to sell their possessions. In fact, the recession was strong that it did not allow the potential homeowners feared to climb up the property ladder. Consequently, the housing market of the UK remained under severe pressure for six straight years. Even today one can feel the effects of global recession and housing market’s downward spiral in the Great Britain. That still had not return to the point from where it had fallen.

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Thus, even after showing an impressive increase of 70 percent as compared to last year the buyers are still very cautious when it comes to buying a property in the UK. One major reason behind this fear is that after sudden increase in UK’s property now the bubble is about to burst again. However, such fears have been dispelled by many as the mortgage rates in the country are still at low level. On top of, schemes like Help to Buy are encouraging people to buy a house in order to reduce the increasing demand for new homes. 

Therefore, it will not be a bad idea to invest in the UK’s property market at this point in time, but one should first analyse which type of property is best for buy. Investors will learn about doing some research that UK’s student property is best for investing their money, as it offers high yield. Moreover, student property in Great Britain is considered more safe investment as compared to bonds and stocks. Besides this, more UK’s government is encouraging foreign students to come and earn higher education from the top universities in the country.

Above all, due to ever increasing number of the international students in the university towns of the UK, the demand for student has reached to a new peak. Therefore, several international investors had recently made some heavy investment in the student property of the UK. Considering these facts, one can say that investment in the student property is not a bad idea. All an investor needs to do is to identify university towns in the UK and then, acquire the services of a reputable real estate company.

Like Oasis Properties that has been operating in Leeds for several years now under the supervision of a family. The Headingley based real estate company is famous for letting properties to professionals and students of any group sizes. Therefore, it has become a number one choice of students, professionals and Landlords in the region, as it offers high quality services and takes care of all the matters itself. So visit Oasis Properties’ Otley Road today and get your desired accommodation at lowest rent. 

International Investment Hikes Up the Price and Demand of UK Property

Prices of the commercial properties in the UK are on the rise, as annual investment in country’s property has touched £42 billion mark in the first quarter of the year. These figures came from leading research firm called Real Capital Analytics. This is the highest level that UK’s commercial property market has reached after 2007 turmoil, according to the latest figures. The reason behind this hike in the prices of the commercial property involves number of factors, but it’s certainly not because of the fact that investors have suddenly fallen in love with the property in London. 

The two major reasons behind this rise in demand for London property are lowering of the interest rate and decrease in the returns on bonds and equities. These two causes forced the investors to find new sources that offer better yield. Thus, when investors looked out for new sources they found UK property more luring, as the country has stable political situation. In addition, its economy is also reviving from the recession that hit it almost six years ago. Plus its capital city London is surely an international metropolitan.

Due to these fine points, international investors have started pouring their money in the country’s property. Besides them independent wealth funds and institutional investors like insurance and pension funds are also battling with one another to get hold of commercial property in London. That is pushing the prices of the UK property to ever high level.Cushman & Wakefield’s figures revealed that over one third of the money spent in the London property market during the first three months of 2014 was made by foreign investors. Yet in this buoyant market, there were only a few purchases of properties that were noticeable.

One of these prominent purchases came from Lodha, an Indian property company that spent £300 million during last year to acquire a Canadian embassy building that is located at the Grosvenor Square. The second most notable investment was made by Greenland, a Chinese development company that had acquired Ram Brewery site that is located in the south of London. The Chinese builder utilised £600 million to buy the site. Both the investments had raised the eye brows of even most experienced property watchers. The trend was further exemplified when two more record-breaking investments were made at the start of the year.

The first of these two investments came from GIC, an independent wealth fund of Singapore that had exhausted £1.7 billion to buy 50 percent share in the Broadgate office. Then, it was Kuwait’s St Martins, a property firm, turns to make the transaction, as it used nearly same amount of money to buy More London estate in the UK. In brief, it seems that UK property will quickly gain the prices which it has attained in 2007, if the demand continues to rise. Thus, it’s a golden opportunity for all types of investors to invest their money in the UK property market and enjoy amazing yield.

Given that commercial property is not the only lucrative deal, as they can also invest in student property too. And when it comes to student or professional property in Leeds there is no match to Oasis Properties.  

New Report Ranks 14 Towns and Cities of UK as ‘First Class’ Possibilities for Student Housing Investment

According to the latest report of Savills the purpose-built student accommodation in 14 university towns and cities of the United Kingdom has gained a ‘First Class’ranking when it comes to luring investors. That’s not all the report also predicted that the investment in the student accommodation will reach £2.5 billion during this year. That is equal to half of the amount (£5 billion) that has been invested in this sector during past two years.The independent reported that Savills has ranked the following 14 towns and cities of the UK as ‘first class’: Aberdeen,Brighton,Cardiff, Bath,Cambridge, Bristol,Edinburgh,Bournemouth,Kingston upon Thames, St Andrews, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne,London, and Oxford.

The interesting thing about the report is that cities like Glasgow,Aberdeen,Newcastle upon Tyne, Bournemouth and Kingston upon Thames have been moved to the ‘first class’ from ‘upper second’ ranking of last year. Shedding light on the report the research analyst of Savills, Neal Hudson said that the purpose-built student accommodation has proved an attractive investment in the UK’s housing sector. And it will continue to perform well thanks to the ever increasing rental income and strong yield, said Hudson.On this occasion the analyst did not forget to warn the investors, as he said that they should keep in mind that alike other sectors the student accommodation sector is also not free from risk.

The demand for new houses in the UK has reached a level that many believe is not achievable, as each year the country requires 200,000 new accommodation facilities. This can be judged from Knight Frank’s house building report which depicts that only six percent of the home developers believe that the target of building 200,000 houses during each year is feasible.The Head of UK Researchat Knight Frank, Grainne Gilmore said that undoubtedly house builders are more active as compared to the time when financial crisis hit the housing sector. Still it is not possible to meet such a high demand, says Gilmore.

Roughly a third of the home developers believe that maximum number of houses they can build during each year will be no more than 180,000. This rise in demand for student accommodation is not limited to the aforementioned cities and towns of the UK, as things are not too different in Leeds. Where, students not only come from different parts of the Greta Britain, but also from various parts of the world. As a result, demand of student accommodation in the area has surged up and Oasis Properties, a family owned student accommodation and real estate business, is helping them out in finding the right place for living at affordable price.

Investor from Singapore Shows Strong Interest in UK’s Student Properties

Recently MC Pinnacle Global, a leading student property development firm of London, has held a sales event in Singapore in partnership with RE/MAX. The event got a tremendous response from the locals, as many buyers showed interest in buying a student property in the UK. The event lasted for days and most of the buyers who showed interest in buying the property were the nationals of Singapore. While most of them have not invested in student property ever before, but some of them have the experience of buying international properties in countries like Australia and Malaysia. Still they opted to buy student property in the UK because of high yield and interesting development design.

MC Pinnacle Global has also organised a similar sales event in Singapore in association with WK Invest Network that also remained quite successful for the UK firm, as it also gained attendees attention. However, unlike the buyers of the first event, people who have attended this event were more experienced as they had already made investments in international properties, but they were also new to student property. Despite of it they were keen to invest in such accommodations, particularly the ones that are under construction in Leeds. Yes that’s right in Leeds! because MC Pinnacle Global has some student accommodation developments in this year of UK as well.

All this became possible because of the rise in demand for student properties in the UK. Thanks to the British government that is encouraging foreign students to come and study in the country. As a result, investors started focusing on UK student property, but high yield was not the only that lured them, as this investment is also considered more safe than others. This can be judged from the fact that real estate agents let the property to the students and also take care of other formalities on behalf of the landlord. After which, all landlord need to do is to receive rent at the start of every month.

The shortage of student accommodation has made this investment even more lucrative for the investors, as students find it hard to get an ideal space on rent in university towns. Similar is the case with the students in Leeds, but Oasis Properties, a specialist in professional and student property that is based the heart of Headingly, has resolved their problem. By offering students best accommodations at extremely affordable rents due to this reason Oasis Properties has become a number one choice of people who like to rent their property to students or professionals.