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Have House Prices Fallen Or Risen In 2023?

Have House Prices Fallen Or Risen In 2023?

9 January 2024 – 2023 was a tough year for the property market. With an unstable mortgage market, where rates went on a rollercoaster ride,...

UK Flooding in 2019

How Floods Are Affecting The UK In 2019

With climate change and global warming at the forefront of the news recently, it’s no wonder that port and river towns such as Ipswich and...

Downsizers Stay Put While First-Time Buyers Dominate Market

Downsizers Stay Put While First-Time Buyers Dominate Market

22 May 2024 – The first-time buyer sector shows signs of incredible activity based on an analysis of conveyancing quote forms. According to reallymoving, the...

Property Transactions Rise By 9% In February

Property Transactions Rise By 9% In February

3 April 2024 – Property transactions are on a second monthly rise, as HMRC data shows 82,940 recorded sales for February. On a seasonally adjusted...

Modest 0.2% Monthly Rise In House Prices In April

Modest 0.2% Monthly Rise In House Prices In April

25 April 2025 – April has seen another modest monthly rise in house prices, with the average asking price in the UK now at £366,247....

Housesimple Review

Housesimple Become First Major Online Estate Agent To Offer Service For Free

Online estate agency Housesimple has announced they have stopped charging house sellers commission for marketing their properties. The fifth largest single brand estate agency in...

House for sale

Think Tank Warns Of Difficulties For First-Time Buyers

A prominent think tank has warned that the coronavirus pandemic will exacerbate the longstanding inequalities which affect those seeking to buy their first home. The...

easyProperty Review

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...

COVID impact on housing market

Buyers And Sellers Take Fright Due To Coronavirus

Buyers and sellers of property are staying at home, causing problems for people desperate to move. As activity in the housing market hits a Covid-19...

Sometimes the process itself is delayed.

One In Four Adults Unable To Fund Lifestyle Without Parental Help

Recent research has found that 24% of those aged 18-44 would be unable to afford their lifestyle without financial help from their parents, although 35%...

UK Property Asking Prices Rise

Average UK Property Asking Price Rises By £2,000

January saw a rise of £2,067 in the average asking price of properties coming on to the market compared with December. That is according to...

Mini-Budget Includes Permanent Stamp Duty Reduction

Mini-Budget Includes Permanent Stamp Duty Reduction

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled his mini-budget, in which he announced a permanent cut to the Stamp Duty Land tax (SDLT). As part of the...

Social Housing Reform

Social Housing Tenants To Be Given New Rights To Buy

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...

Fears Mount For High Street Estate Agents

Fear Mounts For High Street Estate Agents

There is increasing evidence that high street estate agents are facing their biggest challenge yet. Although online estate agents still only count for less than...

Houses of Parliament

Scrapping Section 21 Increases Risk of Delays

Fair reasons to evict may not increase tenants’ security while proving to be unworkable in practice, according to legal firm, Osbornes Law. The company has...

Inaccurate EPCs

Up To 2.5m EPCs Are ‘Likely To Be Inaccurate’

An investigation performed by property technology solution Spec has revealed that as many as 2.5 million Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are likely to be inaccurate....

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