Buying vs Renting Reviews

We currently rent our 3 bedroom house with garage at a cost of £550 per month. I believe that renting is better than buying for us as in a couple of years we plan to go travelling. When the time comes for us to leave we don't have to worry about selling our house or finding someone to rent it off us so we can pay the mortgage each month, we can ...  Read the complete review

Just to give a little overview of my experience, I have rented 3 different properties in Greater London over the last 2 years, but prior to this I have rented in Australia. My husband I also own a house in Australia which we have lived in and currently rent out. I consider us to be good tenants, and good landlords in that as tenants we always pay ...  Read the complete review

When it came to getting my house, I was faced with same question many face: Should I buy or rent? Actually there is a middle ground, but first of all it is important to be aware of the disadvantages of both renting and buying. Buying ===== There are significant advantages to buying. Firstly, you get a mortgage and ...  Read the complete review

****Renting**** During my four years living in rented accommodation I lived in a house that was managed by the landlord himself in order to reduce costs and not pay letting agents fees, and a flat that was managed by a firm of letting agents. When renting both the tenant and the landlord have to sign a tenancy agreement. This ...  Read the complete review

Buying V Renting. Your choice. Renting ---------- Social housing ------------------ Council and Housing Association owned properties. For council houses rent tends to be low. £70 a week to rent a three bedroom house. Housing associations on average charge £20-£30 more. With both you pay rent ...  Read the complete review

Having lived and worked in several countries in Europe over the last seven years, not to mention having rented student flats - although they were generally fairly palatial - nothing like the usual hovels that tend to be let to students by landlords without any scruples, seemingly no sense of obligation to fix anything or to maintain the safety of ...  Read the complete review

Overview Buying a house is an important financial and emotional decision. When one invests in a house, it is a symbolism of independence and also maturity away from parents or guardians. However, what choices are there if one doesn't want to buy but instead just wants a place to live until the have more money or are more established. ...  Read the complete review

Things were much simpler when I was at college. The Rent/Buy dilemma didn't exist back then because no-one seriously expects a student to buy unless daddy is a popstar or robs banks for a living, in which case prepare to be the abnormal outsider. Enter the working world however and it's a paradigm shift as Buy becomes the new black and ...  Read the complete review

There will not be many of us who have not rented at some point in our lives. Most of us start on the property ladder at university sharing rented accommodation. Eventually, when we have officially flown the nest and have got a job in the big bad world, we might then think about buying a house, especially if we meet Mr or Mrs Right or want to ...  Read the complete review

Renting vs Buying what a choice and a topic I feel that I can talk about from the experience I have had with renting and how much money I have saved since I decided to buy a house. Now I have lived in London all my life bar a few years in the army and as we all know where ever we live it has to be the most expensive place in the country ...  Read the complete review

Rent or buy is always the big question, especially relevant in these fraught economic times. So what should you do? In general it depends on your own personal circumstances, but I hope to give a few pointers to concentrate you on whether you wish to make that jump into huge debt or not. I am going to aim this purely at people who are in the ...  Read the complete review

When it comes to deciding whether its best to rent or buy a house, there are a few clear cut cases at the extremes, and a grey area in the middle, where its not so clear. You definitely should rent and not buy a house if you are likely to move within 2-3 years. Until you stay for that sort of time, you're unlikely to pay back the ...  Read the complete review

Well is there really any competition here for renting versus buying? I do not think so. Buying a property (after all noone's making anymore land are they?) is a sound investment - as long as you get all the surveys done and do not buy yourself a money pit with subsidense, woodworm, etc. Renting a property (unless ...  Read the complete review

I have never bought a house. At least not yet. We (my husband and I) have made an offer on a house which the current owners have accepted, so we have just begun to buy one, but no money has changed hands so technically we haven't and that's that. Before I got married I rented a flat in Hertfordshire for just under two years. ...  Read the complete review

At the moment I have been renting for 4 years and am getting sick of paying out all my hard earned cash for someone elses mortgage payments when I can probably get one just as cheap. At the moment I am paying £200 monthly for my rent, which is not a lot as most houses are £300 plus monthly and that is for a poorly house in a horrible area. Well ...  Read the complete review

There are sometimes good reasons to rent, if you are only going to be in an area for a short time for example. However, the property next to mine has three flats rented out and everyone of them is tennanted by people who thought they wouldn't be there long and have been there over a year. Not everyone can afford to buy because of all ...  Read the complete review