New planning regulations enabling unused commercial buildings to be converted into homes risk damaging the ‘fabric’ of local communities and threatening the prosperity of high...
3 October 2023 – With mortgage rates still at an elevated level, many buyers adjust their wishes and go for smaller properties and longer-term mortgages...
12 December 2023 – Rightmove’s latest House Price Index suggests that property asking prices fell by 1.9% this month compared to last month, contradicting figures...
Online estate agent, Nested, has received a £120m investment from venture capitalists that include the same people who have backed Spotify, Revolut, and Betfair. Nested...
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...
4 April 2023 – New data shows that annual house price growth has fallen by 3.1%, with house prices now 4.6% below the august peak....
The apparently successful online estate agent, Housesimple, has surprised everyone this week by rebranding to Strike with immediate effect. The company that created the brand,...
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...
Thousands of leaseholders in a minimum of 239 apartment blocks will be unable to sue developers as the buildings are too old. While ministers publish...
The rejection of mortgage applications and delays caused by the coronavirus threaten the property market, according to research among home buyers conducted by Butterfields Mortgages....
7 February 2023 – House prices predicted to drop by 10% in 2023 as housing market is weakening, according to lender Santander. After several interest...
A new report claims that 42% of scale-up construction and real estate firms believe that the Governments approach to Brexit and international trade will benefit...
The Government has announced new proposals designed to help rebalance the relationship between social housing tenants and landlords. The social housing green paper asked residents...
According to the recently published House Price Index by Halifax, July has seen house prices fall by 0.1%. For the first time since June 2021,...
According to Rightmove’s newest House Price Index, there was a sharp decline in house prices, the first recorded by the property portal this year. The...
Despite ungrounded grumbles that there may be a slowdown in the property market in 2018, Rightmove have shown that there is still a strong and...
