You don’t invest in property for the fun it. You are doing it to achieve a lifestyle goal; so you can live without having to work; provide for kids education; provide a deposit for a house for your kids; to support a charity. Whatever your motivation – the better your portfolio performs the faster you…

For years people have asked me, as a financial advisor and co-director of Erskine + Owen, if I thought a capital gains tax would come in at any point. I’ve always said it’s possible, but it would have zero to minimal impact on house prices, certainly in the medium to long term. Here we are…