Peter Bolton-King

Chief Executive of the

National Federation of Property Professionals

Peter Bolton-King Blog

Friday 27th May 2011

It’s been a while since I last blogged, and in the intervening time we have witnessed a flurry of bank holidays, an unseasonably warm April and a slight decrease in the number of house hunters over the past month...

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Friday 11th March 2011

Despite positive news from NAEA members regarding the number of homes being sold since Christmas, the same sentiment cannot be applied to the prospects for first-time buyers...

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Friday 25th February 2011

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THE US housing market has been widely recognised as the potential starting point of the global financial crisis. The availability of cheap credit and, ultimately, the evolution of mortgage backed bonds or CDOS as they are more widely known...

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Sunday 13th February 2011

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December was an exceptionally tough month for the property market. Not only were prospective buyers struggling against the twin challenges of a lack of mortgage finance and the remnants of the recession, they also had to contend with the weather...

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Tuesday 2nd November 2010

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Last week's announcement by the Chancellor George Osborne to axe the housing budget over the next four years to £4.4 billion was a moment the industry was braced for, but one that is still going to take a long time to sink in...

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Monday 13th September 2010

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The next couple of months will, I believe, show us what direction the housing market is travelling in. There have been months of speculation that the housing market – and the economy in general – is recovering, or headed for a double dip recession...

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Wednesday 25th August 2010

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The time has come, in my opinion, for more pressure to be placed on to the major lenders to re-evaluate their criteria for mortgage lending.

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Wednesday 4th August 2010

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Much has been made of the direction of house prices over the past couple of weeks – but a few things stand out for me...

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