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Five years’ ago I sat in a six month review meeting with my Associate Director James Brewster and talked very openly about wanting to build the biggest and most successful commercial legal recruitment team in Birmingham. Very specifically this included wanting to open up a
With the onset of the summer months the residential property team here at BCL Legal normally witness a recruitment hiatus, however this year it’s nowhere to be seen! Home.co.uk Asking Price Index (HAPI), which provides data on asking price, stock and supply trends, has just
Another week and Channel 4 are at it again. This time out its Dispatches turn as they investigate “the Great British property divide”. There is a growing fear that the government plans to introduce an extension to the “right to buy” policy, with one of
As a nation of house buyers, it is in the UK’s DNA to aspire to want to own your own home. However, the issue of affordability for first time buyers and working families has been all but diminished by the growing cost of buying a
From February 2014 to February 2015 the number of loans fell by 16% and remortgage lending also continued to slump, partly due to election uncertainty but also due to typical seasonal trends. A positive upturn was predicted in the spring / summer months with competitive