Useful Resources

External Links

pricedout.org.uk

An excellent website aimed at first time buyers. Focuses on campaigning for affordable house prices.

pricedout.org.uk

creditaction.org.uk

This is a registered charity comitted to helping people manage their money better. It also contain a great section on debt facts and figures that is updated monthly.

creditaction.org.uk

Flood Map

Use the Environment Agency's online flood map when researching areas. Just type in a postcode or placename.

Flood Map

bullionvault.com

Buy gold online from this UK based company that specialise in making the process of buying gold cost-effective for the private buyer.

bullionvault.com

emptyhomes.com

The Empty Homes agency is an independent campaigning charity, which exists to highlight the waste of empty property in England.

emptyhomes.com

uk.houseprices.yahoo.net

A useful Flash tool by Yahoo which allows you to zoom into your area on a map and see the 'average house price' of local areas.

uk.houseprices.yahoo.net

Biz/ed - 1980's Key Facts

Great wesbite for economic facts and figures. It rather like a history book online and is aimed at students as a resource for economic studies.

Biz/ed - 1980's Key Facts

Professor Andrew Oswald

The economics professor who is not afraid to speak his mind and stick to his beliefs.

Professor Andrew Oswald

Biz/ed - 1990's Key Facts

Same website as described on the left but we've separated it out into 80's and 90's facts so that you can click straight through.

Biz/ed - 1990's Key Facts

hometrack.co.uk

Up to date data about how much house prices are in your area. You can even buy a tailored report for £19.95.

Hometrack.co.uk

propertylicence.gov.uk

This site explains the new HMO (Houses in multiple occupation) regulations that came into force on 6th April 2006.

propertylicence.gov.uk

Neighbours From Hell

Do you have neighbours form hell? If so then this is the website for you. Offering loads of practical advice and a lively forum aswell.

Neighbours from hell

Property Facts

The name says it all, if you're looking for facts and graphs then this is the place to go.

Property Facts

stock-market-crash.net

This site has a great section on the US housing market. They are calling it a "massive housing bubble".

Ft.com - House Price Crash discussion

This used to be massive but now that the FT censor the posts all the fun has been taken out of it and it has paled into insignificance. Plenty of conspiracy theory talk about this one!

ft.com

House Buying Tips

Questions and answers for home buyers. Also includes a sheet in Word that you can download to take with you when viewing properties.

House buying tips

cracker.com.au

An australian real estate forum...they are already experiencing a house price crash so some useful information can be obtained here!

Australian Real Estate Forum

housingoutlook.co.uk

This website is run by 3 very educated economics chaps. Contains some very good material.

Housing Outlook

saynoto0870.com

Not a property related site but an excellent website nonethless in the crusade against rip off Britain. It gives alternative numbers to 0870 ones and you can search by company.

In2Perspective

londonpropertywatch.co.uk

A great site if you live in London. It covers all the London postcodes and shows you the average asking price in your area.

LondonPropertyWatch.co.uk

in2perspective

An excellent website which is bearish on the housing market.

In2Perspective

galmarley.com

A lot of people have been looking for a safe haven for their cash. Here's an information site all about gold.

galmarley.com

houseweb.com

This website contains everything you wanted to know about buying a property.

HouseWeb.com

londonrenting.co.uk

This website is a property rental search engine for London, listing rented properties such as houses, flats, rooms and apartments.

londonrenting.co.uk

BBC - Property Message Board

Buying, selling or moving? Share your views with other property movers and shakers.

BBC - Property Message Board

e-valuations.co.uk

Get a valuation of your property without anyone ever visiting your property!

e-valuations.co.uk

House Price

This is a website full of useful information about buying and selling property and the housing market in general.

House Price

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

More house market stats than you can shake a stick at. Most of them are in Excel format so you can easily transform them into graphs.

odpm.gov.uk

Housing market flash charts

Some excellent flash charts on this site relating to the UK housing market, although they are very out of date.

housing market flash charts

bulle-immobiliere.org

The French equivalent of HPC. Jean-Michel Pouré has done an excellent job with this site and is a regular on our forum so you can chat to him aswell...and he also speaks English!

http://www.bulle-immobiliere.org/