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Property: Tidying the housing market
Legal Week | 27 August 2010
Following the credit crunch, confidence in the housing market is low. Stephenson Harwood’s Natalie Elphicke outlines the chances of recovery and explains how first-time buyers can expect to get a foot on the property ladder.
The economic turbulence of the last three years has created challenges for the housing market; namely, securing financing, which is in turn putting pressure on home ownership. These problems look set to continue as the market faces challenges in relation to mortgage approvals, new housing developments and the creation of social housing schemes.
Residential property – designed for
pension funds
LAPF Investments | June 2010
For the past 10, 20 or 30 years, residential property is the best performing asset class when compared to commercial property, bonds or equities – with undoubted demand as people need and want houses to live in.
Investors gain access to UK residential property market
PropertyFundsWorld | 07 June 2010
An investment opportunity is being launched to provide both institutional and direct investors with a low-risk route into the residential property sector in the UK.
The Investors in Housing Fund will initially target the London residential property sector, a proven asset class that has outperformed commercial property, equities and gilts over the past 30 years.
It is the latest venture from Mill Group, a property investment company with close to GBP1bn of assets currently under management in the UK.
Using the new co-investment model for home ownership, the investment will enable potential home owners to buy a share of between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of a residential property with the investors buying the rest.
Demystifying Co-investment
The Move Channel | 21 April 2010
Despite the extension of the Stamp Duty threshold for first time buyers, the capital barriers to home ownership are prohibitive for a whole generation of potential home buyers.
Scant mortgage availability, large deposits and Stamp Duty now create unassailable barriers to entering the home market or moving up the housing ladder.
Here David Toplas, CEO of property investment specialist Mill Group, explains how co-investment could be the new path for home ownership for thousands of customers.
Recovery signs add grist to Mill Group’s
co-invest fund
Property Week | 12 February 2010
Fund offers buyers chance to part-own and part-rent home with investors.
Faint signs of recovery in the economy have accelerated fund manager Mill Group’s plans to attract investment for its latest residential fund.
The £500m Investor in Housing Fund was launched in October 2009 and is open to UK and overseas institutional investors. It will operate a coinvestment model whereby buyers purchase between 25% and 50% of the home and the fund will buy the rest.
BPF fights plight of first-time buyers
Property Week | 05 February 2010
A key issue for the next government after the imminent general election will be to help first-time buyers to access mortgages, warned government adviser Nigel Hugill at the British Property Federation’s residential conference in London
Hugill, chairman of developer Urban & Civic and adviser to the Homes and Communities Agency, said last Wednesday that first-time buyers now needed a deposit of £33,000, compared with £17,000 in 2007.
Housing purchase investment fund debuts
By Ruth Sullivan
Published: November 02 2009 | Last updated: November 02 2009
A new type of fund focusing on UK residential property in London and the south east is being launched today. aimed at institutional investors and would-be buyers trying to get a foot on the housing ladder.
The £500m (€558m $822m) Investors in housing fund will work on a co-investment basis where the buyer acquires 25-50 per cent of the property via a conventional mortgate with the fund buying the rest
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Property: Tidying the housing market
Legal Week | 27 August 2010
Investors gain access to UK residential property market
AssetAdviser | 07 June 2010
Moving away from equities can pay
City AM | 05 May 2010
Property fund interests LGPS
Pensions Week | 08 February 2010
Making a stand
Inside Housing | 29 January 2010
Investors interest remains in market
Express & Star | 11 November 2009
£500 million investment fund to launch
Inside Housing | 06 November 2009
Need to know...
Times Online | 03 November 2009
New property fund launched
Mortgage Introducer | 02 November 2009
Housing purchase investment fund debuts
Property Week | 02 November 2009
New co-investment fund aims to help people onto the property ladder
Mortgage Finance Gazette | 02 November 2009
Property fund launches to help first-time buyers
IFA Online | 02 November 2009
Property fund launches to help first-time buyers
Mortgage Solutions | 02 November 2009
Mill Group plans to finance home buying
Reuters | 02 November 2009
Property fund to give FTBs leg-up onto housing ladder
Mortgage Strategy | 02 November 2009
Boris-backed fund offers rare SRI win
Pensions Week | 02 November 2009
UK property group launches $820m fund
Global Investor Magazine | 02 November 2009
Mill Group plans to finance home buying
Published: October 31 2009 | Last updated: October 31 2009
Mill taps institutions for £500m
Published: October 31 2009 | Last updated: October 31 2009