This week has seen the political discussion for affordable housing hot up. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, spoke about a plan to build homes in...
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...
Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has suggested that the burden of stamp duty – paid when a property is sold – should be switched...
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...
Purplebricks continues to face serious problems as key financial backer, and leading City fund manager, Neil Woodford reduced his investment over the course of two...
June 2021 became the busiest month since records began, thanks to frenzied activity in the housing market before the changes to the stamp duty rules...
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...
Rightmove reports that bottlenecks at every stage in the process of moving are causing house sales to take far longer than usual. In the latest...
7 November 2023 – New analysis has shown that single first-time buyers have been priced out of most areas, despite support by the government’s mortgage...
Frustrated students, who have grown tired of poor levels of accommodation and rising rents, are joining forces to create a National Body of Student Housing...
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...
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...
5 December 2023 – 2023 has been a challenging year for the property market. But according to new figures, house prices have risen again in...
The chancellor is reportedly planning to extend the stamp duty holiday to June, saving buyers an estimated £1.75bn on 300,000 additional transactions. The move would...
While the raffling of homes has grown in popularity, one couple has been forced to abandon their raffling plans after the Gambling Commission stepped in....
Online estate agency Emoov has called in the administrators after being unable to find a buyer. The move into administration has been widely anticipated in...
