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Jim Barnaby's Articles in General Business

  • The opportunities for accidental investors
    Its official: renting is cheaper than buying. This news may not come as a huge surprise to some, not least with so many people choosing to rent rather than buy property precisely because of the soaring cost of buying a house in recent years.
  • The crunch-proof country?
    There may be some who believe that there is no country that can escape unscathed from the credit crunch. What began in the sub-prime collapse of the US housing market has taken its toll on many first-world financial systems, with stalling property markets, high interbank lending rates and, in the UK case, the Northern Rock affair.
  • Hips Hips hooray?
    It is now more than three months since the controversial home information packs (Hips) became mandatory for all homes being sold in Britain.