Friday December 16, 2016

In 2013, on this blog I mentioned that Heaton was catching up with our posh neighbour Jesmond. Today I can confidently say that in many respects, Heaton has eclipsed Jesmond as a place to live, work, eat, shop and play. Once the spluttered outbursts from Jesmond residents have subsided I will explain why. The history […]

Monday August 29, 2016

Few people shed a tear when bank stress test results are announced. Indeed, one professional colleague recently speculated that the introduction of thumb screws might improve the process.  But while bank stress test results hit the headlines, the results from banks own stress tests on private landlords fails to make the news. On a mortgage […]

Saturday April 30, 2016

The lovely team at Northern Insight have included a two page interview with on Damiano Rea, director of Heaton Property: Online magazine: https://goo.gl/RBgUPG What were your career ambitions growing up ? I wanted to be a musician. We had a piano at home which I used to batter away at while my father manfully resisted […]

Monday February 22, 2016

Buy-to-let investors are being hit very hard by a series of new rules that will place enormous financial burden on their operations. It’s a real shame because the measures are not going to suddenly resolve the country’s housing shortage. Landlords appear to have become easy targets. Somewhere along the line, successive Governments have perpetuated this […]

Wednesday December 2, 2015

The ‘studentification’ of Newcastle city centre, and other cities like it, is certainly a talking point in the property industry. I warmly welcome the increase in bespoke student accommodation in and around the city. For too many years the standard of dedicated student property has been left at pretty poor levels, or ignored altogether. The […]