A business must achieve a balance between capital growth, yearly return and risk-management. A number of options exist, but many – including dabbling in the stock market – might be considered too risky.
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Is our green countryside being sacrificed for new housing?
There is a huge debate between those who think that the country does not have enough housing, and those who believe that our countryside should be protected.
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Fewest property repossessions recorded in 2016 for many years
The repossession rate now is the lowest on record over recent times. If this rate continues throughout 2016, it will put the annual number of repossessions at a lower rate than any year since 1982.
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Is the financial cleansing of St. Ives a little fishy?
83% of residents of St. Ives in Cornwall voted in a referendum to ban the sale of newly-built second homes to non-locals. The ban, however, cannot be implemented as Cornwall County Council have to decide whether or not to adopt the policy.
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Squatting becoming criminalised in 2012 does not stop pensioner losing house!
Pensioner Colin Curtis lost the rights to his mother’s house this month, despite a change in the law in September 2012 which made squatting a criminal offence.
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EU Swimming warnings now in force on Britain’s beaches!
Certain attractive waterside locations in the UK now have signs erected advising people not to swim in the sea.
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House in Multiple Occupation owner fined over £20,000 for non-compliance
An unlicensed landlord has been fined for failing to appropriately licence the property as a house in multiple occupation.
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Golden legacy in South Devon
A legacy from a local man has allowed Sidmouth and the adjoining villages of Sidford and Sidbury to be brightened by hundreds of thousands of daffodils (and snowdrops and bluebells and crocuses).
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Housing crisis has been predicted to get even worse
In October, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) reported in their Residential Survey that the houses prices in the UK are expected to rise by 4.5% per year over the next five years. This is an overall increase of around 25%.
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NatWest plan on cutting the amount of money that it will lend
House buyers who need to pay a deposit of between 15% and 20% will only be allowed to borrow up to 4.45 times their annual salary, a decrease from the original 4.75.
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