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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...

Drop in houses for sale

Properties For Sale Decrease While Rentals Rise

The number of properties available to buy in March, traditionally the busiest month for listings, hit the lowest level on record, according to the National...

Levelling Up And Regeneration Bill & Housing Market

Levelling Up And Regeneration Bill

In last week’s Queen’s Speech, there was a mention of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which aims at overhauling the planning system, amongst other...

Scale-Up Businesses Attitude To Brexit

42% Of Scale-Up Property Businesses Believe They’ll Benefit From Brexit

A new report claims that 42% of scale-up construction and real estate firms believe that the Governments approach to Brexit and international trade will benefit...

Purplebricks Review

Purplebricks Co-Founder, Michael Bruce, ‘Ousted’ From Position

In a shock move, co-founder of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has been ‘ousted’ from his position as Chief Executive of the online estate agent. Michael Bruce...

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...

Cladding installation

Flat Owners ‘Prisoners’ In Ongoing Cladding Nightmare

Reserve funds raided to pay for replacement cladding are predicted to cause a surge in dilapidated homes. While management firms’ emergency funds are drained to...

rising demand for flats

Rising Demand For Flats Trumps ‘Race For Space’

Experts say the reopening of some offices and the end of the Covid stamp duty break are skewing demand in favour of flats in the...

Uk street

Latest Data Reveal Impact Of Covid-19 On Landlords

Since the start of lockdown in March, 43pc of landlords have been contacted by their tenants to say they will struggle to pay rent and...

Birmingham

Five Premier Cities For BTL Investment in 2020

The latest research from SevenCapital, the property development and investment company, investigates the UK’s top-rated cities for buy-to-let investment in 2020. While there is little...

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...

Purplebricks Germany

Homeday Provides Purplebricks With A German Home

Purplebricks has announced it is entering the German real estate market which will be the online estate agent’s first move into Europe. The agency has...

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...

Help to buy scheme

Possible Extension Of Help To Buy For First-Time Buyers

The Government is said to be considering extending the Help to Buy scheme to enable more first-time buyers to benefit from an equity loan and...

Property listing

What Home Buyers Most Dislike About Property Listings

As the housing market continues to recover and the number of prospective buyers grows, the quality of a property listing becomes increasingly important. In a...

Nice white cottage

Regional Property Divide Still Favours The South

Research conducted by Springbok Properties shows that, although market uncertainty is adversely affecting the more expensive southern regions, the north-south property divide still favours the...

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