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Will Grexit impact property prices and rents? (in: Overseas Property FAQs) Jul 2, 2015: Would you believe it is 8 years since we had the credit crunch? It now seems like a lifetime ago that property prices fell in many areas for up to two years and the number of properties that were sold dropped by half.

What are bridging loans? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists) Jun 30, 2015: Bridging loans are a specialist short term finance option. Normally when you take out lending on a property it is for 25 years or more in the form of a mortgage. Sometime however you just mght need to borrow money when you move from one home to another or have a property which at the start you couldn't secure a normal mortgage on.

Why it’s important to know how long it will take for prices to recover (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists) Jun 29, 2015: Watching property prices recover since the recession across the UK has been fascinating since the credit crunch.

The major problem with the reporting by the media of property prices is they use the property price report measures – which are year on year and month on month.

During price rises and falls, these are both very misleading measures of the market.

How long do property prices fall and rise for? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists) Jun 29, 2015: During 2007 and 2008 we had a severe property price crash, in 2010 we saw prices in some areas ‘bounce’ back slightly.

What happened next depended very much on where your property was in the UK.

Some places saw property prices continue to grow from 2010 and they are still growing now.

What's the latest with the London boroughs? (in: Buying and Selling Property Checklists) Jun 29, 2015

Every month we track the performance of each of the 32 London boroughs to see:-