http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles Property articles in Berkshire - Maidenhead, Marlow, Cookham, Twyford, Reading Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en still at 0.5 per cent. Adil Akkus of Appleton Estate Agents Maidenhead commented: "Especially 2010 being an election year, the property prices are expected to increase in value slightly but the overall economy is still under a lot of pressure, and there are not enough mortgage products on the market, so ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2010/01/07/base-rate-frozen/ The Bank of England has decided to keep the interest rates at the same level to ease the current economic situation. Adil Akkus of Appleton Estate Agents Maidenhead comments that this will help the property market in Maidenhead but the government needs to do a lot to help the Bank of ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/12/11/base-rate-kept-at-05/ http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/12/03/109/ According to the rumour mill, Google is likely to launch a free service in the UK market. Google launched this service in Australia last August, which caused a lot of stir in the property market there. Google gives the impression that there is an increase in the real estate search activity. And, ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/12/03/free-google-estate-agents-listings/ Both Rightmove and Findaproperty have both published reports with interesting statistics. They both indicate that the asking price for the new properties that are coming on the market is lower than last month. Righmove shows this figure to be 1.6% down whereas Findaproperty shows it to be 0.5% down. Both portals ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/11/16/asking-prices-dip/ The Bank of England has decided to keep the interest rates unchanged at half of one per cent for the eighth consecutive month. They also agreed to put an extra £25 billion into the British economy in their quantitative easing (QE) programme. This amount brings the to £200 billion on Quantitative ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/11/05/interest-rates-unchanged-2/ The Nationwide Building Society claims that the UK house prices are higher year-on-year in October. Property prices are two per cent up in October compared to October 2008. This is the first annual increase over the last 19 months. However, the Nationwide also points out another trend that the pace of monthly ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/10/30/house-prices-higher-than-2008/ Our executive director, Sarah Akkus, will be taking a maternity leave soon for the arrival for her second baby. Sarah has reassured the valued landlords in an email in a recent email. Sarah has mentioned it will be "business as usual" while she is off. Sarah said "all the properties are ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/10/28/maternity-leave/ According the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA),  residnetial andlords have increased their portfolio of properties over the past year in order to take advantage of the low property prices as a result of the economic downturn. ARLA published the results of a survey they have recently carried out. The survey ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/10/27/arla-claims-landlords-increasing-their-portfolios/ The government introduced a mandatory Tenancy Deposit Scheme on 06/April/2007, which governs all the Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreements in England and Wales where the landlords and letting agents take a deposit from the tenant. This is a scheme design to protect the tenant's deposit from the rogue landlords or agents following ... http://www.appleton-estates.com/articles/2009/10/14/minimise-issues-for-return-of-tenancy-deposit/