14 March 2023 – Much is expected from the upcoming spring budget, and the property industry also has a list of things it would like...
According to upfront information provider Gazeal, in the first 10 weeks of this year 53,856 property sales fell through, which is an astoundingly high number....
The recent House Price Index by Rightmove shows that house prices rise again sharply, after a slowdown in recent months. The monthly rise in property...
28 November 2023 – Yesterday the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities unveiled the long-awaited Leasehold Reform Bill in parliament. But a...
April showed a sharp upturn in mortgage approvals according to residential chartered surveyors e.surv’s Mortgage Monitor as borrowers take advantage of low mortgage rates across...
Buyers and sellers of property are staying at home, causing problems for people desperate to move. As activity in the housing market hits a Covid-19...
While it may seem to tenants that rents are always rising and taking an ever larger portion of their monthly income, the reality is that...
The Government has proposed reform of the leasehold laws with the new rules possibly rolled out within two years. There are three major changes being...
As the housing market continues to recover and the number of prospective buyers grows, the quality of a property listing becomes increasingly important. In a...
Leeds-based agent Manning Stainton’s complaint regarding Housesimple has been rejected by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The estate agent argued that the small-print clauses in...
Fair reasons to evict may not increase tenants’ security while proving to be unworkable in practice, according to legal firm, Osbornes Law. The company has...
A new independent study which reveals flaws in the affordable home ownership schemes introduced over the last 40 years has led to calls for root...
The Government is set to ban evictions and bring in three-month mortgage payment holidays for landlords whose tenants are finding it difficult to pay rent...
According to analysis by property agency Hamptons, a record-breaking 73% of property buyers in 2022 so far have been chain-free. The research conducted by the...
The Government, following a noisy protest by its own MPs, has abandoned plans to use an algorithm that would have increased housebuilding in the Conservatives’...
13 December 2022 – Signs that the housing market is cooling down are becoming more concrete, with banking trade body UK Finance predicting property sales...
