PARKS PROPERTY ADVICE
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BUSINESS / ECONOMICAL / POLITICAL
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1st QUARTER 2015
Listed property has delivered a stellar performance
'Double digit' property price increases predicted
‘Slight deterioration’ in people’s ability to afford residential property
It is becoming more cost-effective to buy an existing house rather than build one
Residential property market still ‘safe as houses’
Buy-to-let: landlords need to be far more scrupulous in vetting prospective tenants
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2nd QUARTER 2014
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US economy shrinks by most in five years
Final revision for first-quarter GDP shows 2.9% contraction
Weather disruptions at home and weak demand abroad caused a contraction of rare severity in the US economy in the first quarter, renewing doubts about the strength of the nation's five-year-old recovery. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.9% in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said in its third reading of the data on Wednesday this week.
By Jonathan House