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With the end of April nearing I've been doing some stats and research. The information has given me great peace of mind and truly does demonstrate how strong our reputation is and how much it has continued to grow. We are now averaging a new house builder/developer...

Whatever your politics are and whatever your thoughts are on the housing market I've made comment again and again on this blog about the changing face of home ownership in the UK. Even if the media doesn't like the private landlord and the the high street lenders keep...

As January comes to a close it's interesting to reflect upon a crazy month when often January is a quiet and takes most of the month to simply gather momentum. It certainly hasn't been quiet! We hit the ground running with an array of sales progression issues, calls...

Not all business decisions are made purely with business in mind and some simply have to made with the heart. Whether or not that statement is relevant to this blog post or not I'm not quite. Bastion Estates have formally renewed their commercial partnership with...

I hate negative headlines but I'm going to do one here just to highlight some issues that UK buy to let faces this year. Rental stress coverage is increasing to 145% for most lenders so buy to let landlords will have to watch the rental returns far more keenly. The...

How do you summarise a year when it has been as crazy as it has. Growing demand, low interest rates, stamp duty introduction, tax changes, more buy to let bank lending scrutiny, media messages vilifying the buy to let landlord, letting agent fees proposed to be...

No real surprises from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) in some of the forecasts for 2017 but it is still interesting to read. Of course the headline was predictably negative but the article is not. We decided not to even show you the headline!...

Yesterday evening Bastion Estates sponsored an event with Huddersfield Town Football Club and what a great night it proved to be. Called THREE UP FRONT three local business owners were asked a series of questions about football, life, business and aspirations from...

Business changes and in the property world we are often effected by governmental changes, new tax rules, lending criteria changes and much more. Naturally articles are then written with striking headlines and of course a good scaremongering overtly negative headline...

The buy to let market is unsurprisingly busy as demand continues to grow. Landlords new and experienced appreciate that there is nowhere else that produces the kind of returns that UK buy to let property do, as long as the properties bought offer discount and are in...