The Budget in Review: What does it mean for you?

£650 million for housing in various forms. Stamp Duty threshold to remain at £175,000 until the end of the year. Unprecedented public borrowing. Government to start selling £16bn worth of property and land over the next three years. And a rather optimistic (or utterly ridiculous if you prefer) prediction of growth before the end of the year.

Those are the highlights from the 2009 Budget, as presented by Chancellor Alistair Darling. But what does it mean to you, the property investor? Our Editorial Director takes a very close look. Check it out below - you cannot afford to NOT read this!

Land Investment - does it stack up?

In conjunction with property and related investment specialists Worldwide Investments, we examine overseas land investment as an alternative to property - can land provide the same level of returns? Is the risk greater or lesser? Who can, how do you and where should you invest in land? You'll find out in this article - see below.

Property Finder Bulletin

We were supposed to send out our first Property Finder Bulletin this week. If you are already signed up you'll already know that didn't happen.

Why? We got wind of some fantastic opportunities in the South that we wanted to include in the first Bulletin. As I write our property finding team is ironing out the details and we WILL have those properties and some others in our first Bulletin early next week. We apologise for the delay!

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Until next week...

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22 Apr 09 | Robin Bowman Cultivating Profits: Land investment with a solid exit plan. Does it stack up? Some forms of land investment have got a bad name - but that shouldn't put investors off more reputable schemes with excellent potential for high returns Sponsored by: Worldwide Investments 24 Apr 09 | Robin Bowman UK Property Market Post Budget: It's still very much a buyers' market out there The launch of a another barrage of dire headlines and handwringing from economists - but is the UK still a good bet from property investors?	20 Apr 09 | Tony Booth UK property bargain hunting - we look at WHERE to buy There are now clear signs the worst of the property crash is over - but there are still great bargains to be had. We take a look at where they are...

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