{"id":1199,"date":"2021-08-04T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:11:58","slug":"in-the-news-home-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2021\/08\/04\/in-the-news-home-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news \u2013 Home Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>How does your garden grow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Since the pandemic hit the UK,\nBrits have been spending more time in their garden \u2013 and spending more on them,\ntoo. According to new research<sup>1<\/sup>, 58% of respondents to a survey said\ntheir garden is now a bigger priority, which has been reflected in their\nspending. Almost a quarter of respondents (22%) spent more than \u00a3600 on their\ngarden last year, compared with 12% in 2019. What\u2019s more, over a quarter (27%)\nsay they intend to spend over \u00a3600 in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>The best return on your BTL\ninvestment<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Buy-to-let (BTL) property can turn\na real profit and provide a good income for landlords. Typically, UK BTL\ninvestors see a 5% annual return on average from their property \u2013 but profit is\nvery much dependent on location. According to research, the top 10 places to\ninvest in a rental property are: Sunderland, Blackburn, Durham, Blackpool,\nOldham, Cleveland, Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton and Manchester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Home moves prompted by\nnightmare neighbours<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>While the pandemic has prompted\nmany people to move in search of more space, larger gardens or a more rural\nlifestyle, other people have less positive reasons for moving. According to a\nsurvey<sup>2<\/sup>, 28% of those asked why they moved home cited a desire to move\naway from noisy or messy neighbours. It\u2019s likely that neighbour frustrations\nannoyed us more than usual last year, due to the amount of time we spent at\nhome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Quickmovenow,\n2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Yes,Homebuyers,\n2021<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does your garden grow? Since the pandemic hit the UK, Brits have been spending more time in their garden \u2013 and spending more on them, too. According to new research1, 58% of respondents to a survey said their garden is now a bigger priority, which has been reflected in their spending. Almost a quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,91],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}