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Will buy to let deliver a good pension return? Mar 16, 2015: Buy-to-let investors have been well rewarded over the years. They have benefited from rising residential property prices and increasing rental incomes as more people have struggled to get on the housing ladder raising the demand from renters having to pay for somewhere to live.

5 reasons why property investment doesn’t necessarily make a good pension Mar 16, 2015: The idea being banded around the UK at the moment is that it’s a ‘good idea’ to cash in your pension – or part of it – and invest your pension pot into property.

And there are plenty of people, including, astonishingly many major newspapers, telling you it’s a ‘great idea’, although the better ones are making sure you hear about the ‘good, bad and ugly’ of property investment and buy to let. Read on to find out more...

Is Colchester a good place to invest in property? Mar 4, 2015: Colchester is just an hour’s journey by train from London, which makes it a great place for commuters to buy. And as people working in London tend to have higher than average salaries and improved job opportunities, this tends to help keep Colchester and Essex property prices and rents buoyant. So does this make it a good place to invest?

Latest Land Registry London borough analysis Mar 2, 2015: Every month we track the performance of each of the 32 London boroughs to find out, how are they performing this year versus last; is the growth/decline more or less than the long term average; what and when was the highest house price growth ever; how much did prices fall during the last recession and are current property values more or less than the 2007/08 peak. Find out what's happening in your London borough!

What do the RLA suggest the government changes at the next election for landlords? Feb 23, 2015: The starting gun has been fired on the General Election campaign and the political slanging match has already begun.

Amidst the inevitable mudslinging, there are two parties that are in agreement when it comes to private rented housing.

Despite popular myth, good landlords and tenants want the same things: a system that gets rid of the crooks who call themselves landlords; more homes to rent in the sector to give tenants greater choice over their housing needs; a form of tenure that is fair to both tenants and landlords; and a system in which tenants take control of their finances.