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Number Of Completions 13% Lower in Q2 Compared To Q1

Number Of Completions 13% Lower in Q2 Compared To Q1

25 July 2023 – Cost-of-living crisis and rising borrowing costs continue to impact on the housing market, with the number of completions falling. New data...

Offshore property

Leaked Papers Reveal Extent Of UK Property Worth £4bn Held Offshore

The so-called Pandora Papers constitute the largest ever cache of leaked data to expose offshore tax haven secrecy involving world leaders, monarchs, oligarchs and tycoons....

Failed house purchases

Failed House Purchases Cost FTBs £406m Last Year

Half of all first-time buyers who started the process of purchasing a property saw it fail, despite a rise in the numbers of this group...

Theresa May Foreign Stamp Duty

New Stamp Duty Surcharge: Foreign Buyers Set To Be Hit

In an attempt to make property more affordable for British residents, the Government plans to increase the stamp duty surcharge for foreign buyers. Theresa May...

Levelling Up And Regeneration Bill & Housing Market

Levelling Up And Regeneration Bill

In last week’s Queen’s Speech, there was a mention of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which aims at overhauling the planning system, amongst other...

Brexit House Price Drop

Brexit Blamed For House Price Drop

Figures from property website Rightmove have shown that house prices rose at the lowest rate for the time of year since 2011. This is in...

Interest-Only Mortgages

Interest-Only Mortgage-Holders Unprepared, says FCA

The end of the term for interest-only mortgage-holders is set to peak over the next 10 to 14 years, and borrowers are not prepared, warns...

Countrywide Branch Closures

Countrywide Set For Branch Closures, According To Reports

While rumours continue to abound about potential branch closures, Countrywide has refused to confirm or deny whether the rumours are true. In the last annual...

Flooded Street

Flood Risk Assessment Product Launches To Mortgage Market

A UK environmental consultancy has launched a new product aimed at enabling insurers, risk managers and mortgage lenders to assess flood risk accurately. GeoSmart Information‘s...

74% Of Active Buyers Confident To Buy A Home Within 3 Months

74% Of Active Buyers Confident Of Buying A Home Within 3 Months

20 December 2022 – New data suggests that buyers are confident that they will purchase a property, but seller confidence has fallen. According to the...

What The Conservative Manifesto 2024 Promises On Housing

What The Conservative Manifesto 2024 Promises On Housing

13 June 2024 – The Tories pledge 1.6 million new homes for all Brits for the next Parliament in their manifesto. The recently published Conservative...

Birmingham

Five Premier Cities For BTL Investment in 2020

The latest research from SevenCapital, the property development and investment company, investigates the UK’s top-rated cities for buy-to-let investment in 2020. While there is little...

LTV mortgages

Increase In High LTV Mortgages Offers Hope For FTBs

A raft of new 10pc deposit mortgage deals together with increased incentives offers hope for would-be first-time buyers. Figures published last week showed the number...

Mortgage approvals

Banks Pull Cheapest Mortgage Deals As Interest Rate Rise Looms

Banks have begun withdrawing their cheapest mortgage deals from the market as interest rates are due to rise and increase the cost of home loans....

Impact of Brexit

UK Cities Resistant To Brexit Uncertainty Due To Service Sector

London has retained the top spot in the European Regional Economic Growth Index (E-REGI) for the third year running and the 11th time since 2000....

House price falls

UK House Sales Predicted To Fall By 38% In 2020

Global property consultancy, Knight Frank, has updated its short-term forecast for the UK’s property market and predicts a fall in house sales of 38pc for...

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