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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...

Purplebricks Sold To Strike For £1 - What Will Change?

Purplebricks Sold To Strike For £1 – What Will Change?

23 May 2023 – Last week it was announced that the online estate agent Purplebricks sold to Strike for the token sum of £1. When...

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...

Number Of Mortgage Approvals Up By 17.8%

Number Of Mortgage Approvals Up By 17.8%

9 May 2023 – Activity levels of the property market continue to improve, with 52,011 mortgage approvals in March this year. Showing that the market...

Chain-Free Buyers Dominating UK Housing Market

Chain-Free Buyers Dominating UK Housing Market

According to analysis by property agency Hamptons, a record-breaking 73% of property buyers in 2022 so far have been chain-free. The research conducted by the...

Property Spring Market - Will It Be Business As Usual?

Property Spring Market – Will It Be Business As Usual?

We are entering a season that is traditionally the strongest season for the property market. But how will this year’s spring market perform? With Christmas...

First-Time Buyers In The UK

Number Of First-Time Buyers Hits Decade High

The number of people buying their first property has hit the highest level since 2006, according to the latest property sale figures. Data from UK...

Mortgage Deals For New Customers Are Getting Scarce

Mortgage Deals For New Customers Are Getting Scarce

13 June 2023 – Following the release of new inflation figures and the recent rise of interest rates, more and more lenders withdraw mortgage deals...

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...

Autumn Budget 2023: Housing Market Left Mostly Out

Autumn Budget 2023: Housing Market Left Mostly Out

23 November 2023 – On Wednesday (22 November) Jeremy Hunt stepped up the dispatch box to deliver his Autumn Budget 2023. Among the 110 measures...

How To Gazunder Successfully

How To Gazunder Successfully

Knowing how to gazunder successfully can be a very useful skill to have when house hunting. After all, not every buyer who reduces their offer...

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...

74% Of Active Buyers Confident To Buy A Home Within 3 Months

74% Of Active Buyers Confident Of Buying A Home Within 3 Months

20 December 2022 – New data suggests that buyers are confident that they will purchase a property, but seller confidence has fallen. According to the...

High Demand For Land Pushes Prices Up

High Demand For Land Pushes Prices Up

According to research conducted by Savills, prices for greenfield as well as urban land have risen in the first quarter of 2022, due to high...

23% can't get on property ladder due to Stamp Duty Land Tax

Stamp Duty Land Tax Prevents 23% From Buying Home

According to a survey commissioned by Butterfield Mortgages, almost a quarter of participants stated, that the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is the reason, why...

More Buyers Accept Ultra-Long Mortgages Due To High Rates

More Buyers Accept Ultra-Long Mortgages Due To High Rates

Research suggests that mortgage rates have seen the highest increase since March of this year. As a result, more and more homebuyers are forced to...

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