Posts Tagged ‘ rental properties ’

UK rental demand up by 50%

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

The number of people signing up for rented accommodation rose in September, with demand up 50 per cent year on year, according to the UK’s second largest lettings agent Your Move, which has 250 branches nationwide. The number of leases commencing in September jumped 4.34 per cent compared to August 2008 – far beyond normal [...]



Cost of renting an apartment in San Diego remains stable

Oct 16th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: West Region

While home prices continue to fall, the cost of renting an apartment remains stable in San Diego County, according to a new survey by the research firm RealFacts Inc.
The average monthly cost of renting within complexes of 100 or more units increased less than 1 percent in the third quarter to $1,405, according to a [...]



If You Can’t Sell It, Why Not Rent Your Home?

Oct 9th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Housing News

The nation’s painful housing bust has put sellers in a serious lurch. To get their properties sold, many sellers will have to make sharp reductions to their asking prices-a necessary evil that can rob the investment of its return. But Danielle Babb has a different idea. In her book, The Accidental Landlord, Babb describes how [...]



Rental Demand Boosts Spain’s Buy-To-Let Market

Aug 7th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

It’s become a well-known fact that the traditional fly-to-let’ rental market in Spain is suffering from over saturation.
Coastal resorts are certainly as popular as ever, with Spain remaining one of the top holiday hotspots with British and European tourists, but when a situation of over supply hits the holiday property market it certainly makes it [...]



Demanding Times for Scottish Rental Market

Jul 24th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

Real estate prices in Scotland are letting faster than at any time in recent years with continuing high tenant demand, according to latest research by Scotland’s leading online letting portal Citylets.
The Citylets quarterly report, Trends in Scottish Residential Lettings, released today, shows that more properties are being let, and being let more quickly, than in [...]



New Zealand Rental Market Confidence Slowing

Jul 21st, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

Confidence in the rental property market in New Zealand is at its lowest point for four years despite rents rising, according to a new report.
Rental property has given the best returns of a property investment, according to the survey by ASB, one of the leading banks and investor providers.
But in the three months to June [...]



Seattle Foreclosures Up 23 Percent in the Second Quarter Of 2008

Jul 18th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Housing News, West Region

Default Research, the premier provider of Seattle foreclosure data, is reporting that King, Pierce and Snohomish counties saw Notice of Trustee Sales increase to 3,379 in the second quarter of 2008, up from 2,743 in the first quarter. The three hardest hit cities in the region were Tacoma (464), Seattle (412), and Puyallap (191).
“There are [...]



Apartment Rents in West Increase Slightly

Jul 17th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: Housing News, West Region

Apartment rents in the western United States are barely climbing – good news for renters but actually a sign of a weakening economy, according to a new report released Thursday.
The good news for renters is that while homeowners have watched the value of their houses drop, and subprime loan holders have seen their mortgages double, [...]



UK Investors look at Philippine Buy-to-Let Property Investments

Jul 17th, 2008 | By RT Staff | Category: International Realty

UK Hedge Funds and Property Investors are looking away from concentrated property areas like Paris and London’s West End to other markets all over the world, and Philippine Apart-Hotel or Condotel or Buy-to-Let rental properties fit the bill a new report states
PLC International Marketing Networks has revealed that some institutional investors are trying to diversify [...]