As part of its commitment to drive up safety standards in the private rented sector, the Government has announced tough new regulations relating to electrical...
Housing Minister Dominic Raab has announced that the Government will be reviewing the current legislation on carbon monoxide alarms in homes to ensure it remains...
25 January 2024 – The government may be reintroducing a radical housing solution dedicated to first-time buyers: 1% deposit mortgages. Under Rishi Sunak’s leadership, there...
With house prices soaring, the Government has come up with a new idea to fix the housing market. They want to introduce 50 year-long intergenerational...
When the Government announced that stamp duty would be cut for first-time buyers buying a home for up to £300,000 last year, estate agents across...
16 May 2023 – A new deposit-free mortgage has been released that aims at helping renters to get onto the property ladder who aren’t able...
31 January 2023 – New data suggests that there is a shift away from houses towards flats. 5% more new buyers are looking for flats...
Robust demand coupled with a dearth of rental properties has resulted in rising rental values across most of the UK, as shown by the latest...
Since the start of lockdown in March, 43pc of landlords have been contacted by their tenants to say they will struggle to pay rent and...
In an attempt to end the abuse of the leasehold system in the UK, the Government’s Housing Minister, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP announced...
21 February 2023 – New data shows that house prices have remained stable, with the smallest monthly asking price increase from January to February ever...
Amid the economic chaos caused by the announcement of the mini-budget by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, almost half of all mortgage products were withdrawn by lenders....
Signs that the UK’s housing market is continuing its slow down have been highlighted by one index that reveals that price growth has hit a...
Landlords in the UK are increasingly depending on accountants for helping them to make key decisions in the buy to let sector, it has been...
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 the latest figures released by Homelet, the average rent in the UK has reached a record high of £1,007, up 5.9pc on the...
