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Help to Buy issues

Help To Buy: Issues Persist In The Market

Hailed by the Government as the fix for first time buyers entering the property market, the scheme is apparently not making property more affordable, making...

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...

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Boris Considers New Part-Buy, Part-Rent Home Ownership Scheme

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson is looking at investing public funds in a new part-buy, part-rent scheme. Leading estate agents, the Romans Leaders Group, have...

Downing Street Prime Minister

Next Prime Minister Could Change Rules On Stamp Duty

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has suggested that the burden of stamp duty – paid when a property is sold – should be switched...

Does An Extension Add Value To Your House?

Relaxation In Planning Rules For Extensions In England

Those homeowners looking to extend their properties will be able to do so quickly and easily without the need for a full planning application, with...

Government Bans No Fault Evictions

Government Moves To Put An End To ‘No-Fault’ Evictions

The Government announced today that it will ban landlords from evicting tenants at short notice without good reason, as part of its continued shake-up of...

Landlords Right To Rent Scheme Compliance

Buy To Let Landlords Are ‘Unprepared For Brexit’

The government has been accused of failing to prepare the country’s buy to let landlords for the impact of Brexit, one leading landlord organisation warns....

Regulations For Renting Out A Property

Regulations For Renting Out A Property

With buy to let mortgage rates at near rock bottom levels and growing numbers of financial products available means that property investment is still a...

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’...

Brexit House Price Drop

Brexit Blamed For House Price Drop

Figures from property website Rightmove have shown that house prices rose at the lowest rate for the time of year since 2011. This is in...

Number Of Empty UK Homes Rises

Number Of Empty Homes In The UK Rises By 5.3%

The number of empty properties in England rose 5.3% to 216,186 long term empty homes in the twelve months to October 2018 according to the...

Right To Buy Scheme Profits

Right To Buy Delivered £6.4bn Profit Since 2000

Tenants who bought their council homes using the controversial Right to Buy scheme racked up £6.4 billion in resale profits, an investigation has found. The...

Labour Unveils Indefinite Tenancies Plan

Labour Unveils ‘Indefinite Tenancies’ Plan

Labour has unveiled plans that would see indefinite tenancies being introduced should they be returned to government. John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, says the...

Government Crackdown On Rogue Landlords

Councils handed £2m to crackdown on rogue landlords

The government has handed councils £2 million in a bid to crackdown on rogue landlords across the country. As a result, local authorities can now...

Three Million New Homes Needed

Three Million New Homes Needed According To Charity

With ever increasing pressure on housing in general, and particularly social housing, a charity has called on the Government to build three million new homes...

Budget Announcement

Budget 2018: Great News For FTBs But Bad News For Landlords

First-time buyers in the UK have been given a helping hand from Chancellor Philip Hammond in his last budget before Brexit. However, the move comes...

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