Birmingham and the West Midlands are in a strong position, thanks to good transport infrastructure and a central location, to take advantage of the Government’s current Nearshoring campaign to encourage businesses to move their overseas operations back to the UK. Commercial property company Cushman & Wakefield’s global business consulting team addressed Nearshoring issues at a seminar…
The rapid rise of “zero-hour contracts” is making it even harder for young people to step on to the property ladder, mortgage brokers have warned. Zero hours just means an employee is “on-call” without a minimum amount of weekly work specified in the contract. Mortgage experts said, like the self-employed, aspiring home owners’ options will…
Home affordability has improved in more than four out of five UK cities over the past five years, although this growth has been checked in the past 12 months. The average cost of a property in the country now stands at £184,215, which represents 5.8 times gross annual average earnings, according to the Lloyds Bank…
A “moronic” policy, or “a welcome boost to buyer confidence” – in the year since the chancellor first announced the Help to Buy scheme for homebuyers, his plan has attracted a full range of descriptions, and although he announced on Sunday it would be extended another four years to 2020 at a cost of £6bn,…
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