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How Much Rent Should I Charge in Birmingham?

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 23/08/2025

There’s no golden rule when it comes to rental prices in Birmingham. Whether you want to invest in a family home in the Birmingham suburbs or multiple student accommodation apartments in the heart of the city, you first need someone to rent them to. That means charging a fair price whilst still seeing a return on your investment. It can be difficult to know where to start. You don’t want to charge too much or too little, but how do you find the rental sweet spot?

There are obvious factors such as the rental property’s location, size, condition, and the

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Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ) Hits New 1-Year Low at $78.09

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 28/07/2025

Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ) Hits New 1-Year Low at .09

Shares of Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:VNQ – Get Rating) reached a new 52-week low during trading on Friday . The company traded as low as $78.09 and last traded at $78.49, with a volume of 54268 shares. The stock had previously closed at $79.35.

Vanguard Real Estate ETF Stock Down 2.4%

The business’s fifty day moving average price is $92.24 and its 200 day moving average price is $96.51.

Institutional Trading of Vanguard Real Estate ETF

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in VNQ. Vectors Research Management LLC grew

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How Inflation is affecting Birmingham’s homegrown developers

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 25/07/2025

Inflation is impacting everyone in so many areas. Just take a trip to your local petrol station to see the immediate effect inflation is having. There’s no way of tip-toeing around it. Building costs are rising too. And it’s affecting Birmingham’s homegrown developers, including us.

As a Birmingham-based developer, we understand that these changes are affecting our local community and we want to understand more about why the costs are rising and what rising costs look like for our business and clients. We must do our best to adapt to the high cost of living and be prepared for change.

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Navigating The Buy-To-Let Market In 2022

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 22/09/2024

Some sectors of the market have slowed, but people are still ready and waiting to buy the right type of property.

Significant changes are on the horizon for the buy-to-let market. Some of which will present challenges to landlords where older properties will be required to meet certain regulations in the coming years. Up to two-thirds of UK rental homes are not energy efficient according to a recent study, so there’s certainly work to do…

Making Your Rental Property More Energy Efficient

With change happening fast, landlords need to look to the future. The housing market, like many others, is

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The Rising Demand For City Center Houses in the North West

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 25/08/2024

With the current economic boom the housing market is seeing, many are looking to move closer to city centers outside of London. With the capital still showing property values far above the rest of the UK, there are many benefits to moving to different areas.

Cities in the North-West like Liverpool and Manchester are considered the best places to buy property due to their vibrant culture, growing economies and array of job opportunities. This has seen houses in city centers become prime real estate.

Compared to other kinds of properties like flats and apartments, properties like Townhouses or Duplexes offer

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LEGAL UPDATE – Public Health Directions extended in Queensland

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 09/08/2024

IN BRIEF By way of update, we attach the Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 2) 2022.

Summary

On 17 June 2022, Queensland’s declared public health emergency for COVID-19 was extended to 11.59 pm on Thursday 22 September 2022.

Consequently, Public Health Directions (PHD) with an end date of 24 June 2022 have been automatically extended until 11.59 pm on Thursday 22 September 2022. Directions will be progressively updated to reference the new date of 22 September 2022.

What does this mean for you?

If you are an employer or workplace subject to the

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Who is Ong Beng Seng, a billionaire tycoon in CPIB’s graft probe?

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 14/07/2023

Billionaire hotelier Ong Beng Seng at a news conference in Singapore on 11 May 2007. (PHOTO: REUTERS/Vivek Prakash)

SINGAPORE — One of Singapore’s richest men, Ong Beng Seng, has been served with a notice of arrest by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).

The billionaire hotelier, who is also reported to have played a key role in bringing the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix into the city-state in 2007, is allegedly linked to the corruption probe involving Transport Minister S. Iswaran.

Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), of which Ong is a co-founder and managing director, said on Friday (14 July) that

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Here Are 3 Cities You Should Not Buy Property in If You Want To Be Rich

Post Author By Evo Plus
Post Date 02/07/2023

In real estate, different markets offer different opportunities and risks — there’s no such thing as a good or bad city. Long-neglected and overlooked metros can be hot prospects if they offer the chance to buy at the bottom in a town on the rise.

Take a Look: 15 Cities Where Houses Are the Best Bargains Right Now
Learn: 3 Things You Must Do When Your Savings Reach $50,000

“It is crucial to recognize that investment potential can change over time, and cities may undertake efforts to overcome their challenges and create new opportunities for real

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