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Green Homes Grant Scheme Scrapped One Year Early

The Government has scrapped the Green Homes Grant, a voucher scheme it was hoped would transform energy efficiency in the private rental sector and result...

Online Estate Agents Battling COVID-19

Here’s What Online Estate Agents Are Doing About COVID-19

There’s no doubt about it, COVID-19, the coronavirus that is quickly bringing the world to its knees, is here to stay – at least for...

71% Of Agents Concerned Sellers Being Unrealistic

71% Of Agents Concerned Sellers Being Unrealistic

24 January 2023 – New research shows what agents are most concerned about for sellers and buyers in 2023. The biggest concern for vendors are...

Bristol

Landlords Take Flight As 100K BTL Homes Sold

Harsh tax reforms have resulted in the sale of more than 100,000 homes and many landlords now plan to leave the market by selling up...

Inflation

Inflation And Rate Rises Could Pose Threat To Property Values

Although the property market has been on fire for over a year, inflation and interest rate increases could result in falling house prices, while the...

Call for Energy Saving Stamp Duty Rebate

Call For Energy Saving Stamp Duty Rebate

A coalition of consumer, energy, construction and finance organisations have called on the government to introduce an Energy Saving Stamp Duty Rebate to encourage homeowners...

House Prices Could Fall By 4% In The Next Year

House Prices Could Fall By 4% In The Next Year

19 December 2023 – As the year draws to a close, predictions about what property prices will do next year abound. Two of the biggest...

What Will Happen To Property Prices In No-Deal Brexit?

Brexit: 44% Believe House Prices Would Remain Static In The Event Of ‘No-Deal’

If the UK was to exit the European Union without some form of deal, house prices would stay about the same. That’s according to a...

Property prices

4% Rise In UK Property Prices Predicted For 2021

The most upbeat prediction for 2021 is a 4pc increase in property prices, despite the stamp duty holiday and the Covid furlough scheme coming to...

Will New Dutch-Style Mortgage Boost Property Market In 2024?

Will New Dutch-Style Mortgage Boost Property Market In 2024?

14 February 2024 – A new option for home financing may finally be more accessible via a Dutch-style mortgage. April Mortgages, the company behind the...

Rent and inflation climb as first homes slip further away for young people

Rent and inflation climb as first homes slip further away for young people

If you are in your 20s or 30s, and renting, you are not imagining it. Getting onto the property ladder has become harder again this...
Brighton

Leeds BS Launches RIO Mortgage With Cashback

Leeds Building Society has launched the first retirement interest-only (RIO) mortgage with cashback which does not include a product fee. The range of products is...

Mortgage decisions

Mortgage Guarantee And Phased SDLT For Homebuyers

The chancellor claimed on Wednesday a phased end to the stamp duty holiday and a government guarantee for 95pc mortgages will turn ‘generation rent’ into...

property for rent

UK Tenants Snub City Centres For Suburbs

Just as many home buyers have forsaken cities in favour of larger properties in rural areas, the trend is being mirrored by the nation’s tenants...

House Market Lull In February

Nationwide Report Shows A Lull In February – But Not A Slowdown

As UK house prices took a slight downward trend in February, there were small murmurs in the market that this was the start of something...

Build to rent

Build-To-Rent Sector Enjoys Record-Breaking 1st Quarter

While a record number of new build-to-rent homes gained full planning permission in the first quarter of 2021, the sector has seen robust growth despite...

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