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Why Buy-To-Let Should Have An Assured Future

The demand for rental accommodation is growing, due partly to the change in public attitudes towards the private rented sector and to shifting opinions concerning...

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Future Of Online Estate Agent, easyProperty, In Doubt After Takeover Bid

The future of easyProperty estate agents is in doubt following a takeover bid for the parent company by investment company Toscafund. easyProperty, which also owns...

Frustrated First-Time Buyers Flood The Rental Market

Frustrated First-Time Buyers Flood The Rental Market

With rising mortgage rates, many would-be first-time buyers are no longer able to make it onto the property ladder. And these frustrated first-time buyers are...

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...

5% Fall In House Prices Predicted In Next Two Years

5% Fall In House Prices Predicted In Next Two Years

According to analysts at Capital Economics, in the next two years the continued increase in house prices in the past two years could be reversed...

Property price increase of 7.6% compared to same time last year

Property Price Increase of 7.6% Compared To January 2021

The latest House Price Index released by rightmove shows that average property prices have increased by 0.3% in January 2022 to £341,019 from £340,167 in...

Mortgage Rates

Mortgage Approvals Up 1.5% Year On Year

A survey by UK Finance showed that the number of new mortgages approved by mainstream lenders increased in January 2019 compared to January 2018, representing...

King's Speech 2023: What Was In It For The Housing Market?

King’s Speech 2023: What Was In It For The Housing Market?

14 November 2023 – Last week Charles III delivered the King’s Speech, for the first time in 70 years. And two of the 21 laws...

Brexit impact on UK house prices

How Brexit Has Impacted UK House Prices

Although a deal has been struck and Brexit and its consequences for the UK remain a talking point, the housing market appears impervious to any...

Client Money Protection Scheme

Client Money Protection Scheme (CMP) Comes Into Force

All property agents who deal with privately rented properties will be required to sign up to a new scheme that aims to protect both renters’...

Tenant Demand

Tenant Demand Soars As Housing Market Picks Up

A surge in house prices and the number of buyers and sellers, together with changes in the lettings market, has brought renewed optimism to the...

Landlords EPC Legislation

Landlords Appear Unprepared For New EPC Legislation

Landlords across England and Wales are risking fines of up £5,000 by failing to prepare for a new law that comes into effect next month....

UK House Prices Drop

First UK House Price Decrease In 6 Months, According To Halifax

UK house prices have fallen for the first time since June according to Halifax.  Between November and December, the average home in the UK dropped in value...

Brexit's Impact On The Property Sector

Brexit’s Impact On The Property Sector

Like the negotiations themselves, making predictions on the property market’s response to Brexit is clouded by a range of competing variables. Amongst all the seemingly...

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...

Modest Price Increase And 8% More Buyers In The Market

Modest Price Increase And 8% More Buyers In The Market

17 October 2023 – October has seen a modest monthly price increase of 0.5% compared to last month. But there are more buyers in the...

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