I get calls everyday from sellers who need information about negative equity. A staggering number of UK homeowners are in negative equity in 2011. This means you owe the bank more on your home than it’s worth on the open market. If you don’t need to sell it’s not a big problem. But, if you [...]
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Can I Sell With Negative Equity?
Help That the So Called Experts Can’t Give!
My wife sent me this article from The Guardian today. It’s from a series called Ask The Experts: Homebuying. Are You Experiencing Problems with Your Home Because of Divorce or Separation? Unfortunately, this so called ‘expert’ answering this question about her home in a divorce and how hard it is to remortgage doesn’t seem to [...]
“Housing Market is Worst Ever” Sellers “Stuck For Years”
Will YOU Be Stuck on The Market For Years? Mortgage Lending in 2011 down 94% on 2007! The Council of Mortgage Lenders this week admitted that mortgage lending was at it’s lowest level in a lifetime. What does this mean for you as a seller? Well, it’s very serious because it means that even fewer [...]
40% of Houses Will Fail to Sell at All This Year!

That means four out of ten sellers can forget the idea of selling and moving home in 2011. Where does this comment come from? From the Estate Agents’ own website where they all get together and moan about each other. Property expert Peter Hendry published a piece on their website last week to aks agents [...]
Mortgage Lending Down 29% in January 2011
This is the worst possible news if you’re trying to sell your home today. How does it affect you as a seller? If mortgage lenders are not lending – either people have lost faith in property and are not making applications or lenders have stopped lending to all but gilt edged borrowers, then who has [...]
Pamela B. Sold Her House in 30 mins. Watch Here.
Pamela was in arrears with her mortgage company and they were calling her night and day. Tenants had trashed the house and her letting agents had been ripping her off. She was struggling to keep her own roof over her and her childrens’ heads. The she called my colleague Ivan and we worked together to [...]
Buy My House Scams Cash Buyer Scams Too Good to Be True (Etc…)
Buy my house scams – Cash for houses scam I get a lot of people searching on Google to see if companies that offer to buy your house fast for cash are a scam or some kind of fix. Of course, it’s possible that some cash property buyers are not what they seem. Unfortunately, we [...]
When Will Interest Rates Go Up in the UK?

Will interest rate rises cause another double dip recession in 2011? You bet! There is really little doubt that whilst the government’s measures to tackle the huge deficit may be the right thing to do, the effect of that is that we’re all feeling pretty miserable about the present and even the future. What does [...]
Donna & Steve W, Sold Their House FAST. Watch Video
Donna & Steve W from near Loughborough contacted me because they were struggling to sell their home and really struggling to keep paying the bills. They were pretty close to losing their home, but by acting in time there was a happy ending. They sold the house (for market value!), moved on and are now [...]
3 Million Struggling to Pay Mortgage
According to a report in today’s Guardian, 3 million Britons are struggling to pay their mortgage payments each month. This is despite the lowest Bank of England interest rates in living memory. Many homeowners are still on mortgages that they fixed back at the beginning of the recession. Yesterday I spoke to a seller in [...]
Using a Form N244 to Stop a Possession Order
What is a County Court Form N244 If you are facing repossession and you urgently need to ask to Court to hear or read new evidence (for example if you have paid some arrears, or if you have a plan for arrears repayment) then you need to ask the Court for an emergency hearing with [...]
I Can’t Sell My House – Not Enough Equity
“I can’t sell my house because I owe my mortgage lender more than my house is worth and every month I’m paying for a house I can’t get rid of. I just want to move on…” Ouch. That’s what a seller told me recently when she called to ask me to help. She was struggling [...]





