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Access denied

Why borrowing short and lending long was always going to end in tears for Assetz Capital and their Access Account…
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Analyse that! Whither the housing market now?

Or Did Liz Truss Break the Crystal Ball? Here we go again! Or do we? After years of warnings that…
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It’s time to stop bashing landlords

It seems that staring at the same four walls every day has forced many of us to contemplate the nature…
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CapitalStackers announces yet another layer of transparency

We’re delighted to add a new layer of transparency on the CapitalStackers website. On the new “Portfolio Statistics” page, members…
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It’s not the end of the peer show yet

It’s still possible to earn double-digit returns from P2P without excessive risk. Look beyond the trends and big data and…
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Investors expecting 14.33% returns avalanche in Solihull

Remember the high quality Chessett’s Wood development in Lapworth, which paid annualised returns of up to 13.8% after just 7…

Returns at the double in Widnes

Midwood House in Widnes town centre was bought by Osborne House Ltd for cash around three years ago and half the office space converted into 17 apartments to test the…

While some fear the sky falling in, others count their returns

The fallout from Lendy’s reported woes has launched a flotilla of lazy journalism, poorly-informed opinion pieces and Chicken Licken style…

The stock market is a knockout investment in the long term – but is that enough?

There used to be a game show on TV called It’s a Knockout, where amongst lots of other silly games,…

Stock market or property market? Why not get the benefits of both?

As the gurus at Motley Fool sound the death knell for Buy-To-Let, calling it an “expensive distraction” and point investors…
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CapitalStackers secures close to £3 million of funding for Cheshire development

CapitalStackers has completed the drawdown of £1.36 million funding for a prestigious development of eight homes, in the pretty Cheshire…

Transparency – why it matters

If you were going to invest your life savings, your pension, your inheritance, you’d want to know it was relatively…

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