Evictions: Government Publishes New Guidelines For Tenants Facing Possession Orders
The government has published updated guidelines for private and social tenants regarding evictions and possession orders.
In a series of lengthy press releases, the government...
Russell Quirk: “Government Interventions Will Fuel Further House Price Rises & Transaction Growth”
With Rishi Sunak poised to deliver his Budget tomorrow (Wednesday 3rd March), our in-house property expert, Russell Quirk, has outlined his thoughts on what...
Latest: Today’s Rightmove Data Shows Property Market ‘Exploding’
Rightmove today published its August house price index and it makes for quite incredible reading.
Why incredible? Because since the beginning of the Covid pandemic...
Rightmove? Or Wrong?
Rightmove's latest house price index published today makes for interesting, some say surprising, reading in that it shows a 3.7% increase in house prices...
Awake The Sleeping Dragon. But Slowly
Mark Drakeford the Welsh First Minister has announced that the housing market will be allowed to re-open in Wales from today, following slowly from...
Breaking: Rightmove House Price Index Shows Huge Uplift In Demand and Price Achieved
Housing market data representing stats during Covid 19 are so far scant. Yes, it feels like we've been subjected to lockdown for years but...
Property Market Rebounds – June Demand Is 54% Higher Than March
The number of new property sales being achieved since the housing market re-opened is at and even above pre-lockdown levels, new data from Zoopla...
Breaking – Halifax House Price Index just published
The Halifax reports this morning that values dropped in May vs April BUT by only 0.2% in sharp contrast to the 1.7% monthly drop...
Five investment options beating buy-to-let returns
The latest research by peer to peer finance platform, Sourced Capital, has looked at the best alternative investments to make for those currently wary about entering the buy-to-let market due to the current pandemic.
More Mortgage Products Now Available
'Lenders just aren't lending at the moment' is a sentence that you may have heard uttered by barrack-room property experts. Except it isn't true...
Advice: “I’m A First Time Buyer. Should I Wait?”
Question: "Do you think if you're a first time buyer and ready to buy now (I'm living at home) that I should wait and...
Latest: Property Sales Transactions
Much is made of house prices by the media, experts and indeed the public yet volume of transactions is also a very important measure...
Breaking: ONS House Price Index Just Published
Breaking: ONS House Price Index (the Govt one) just released.
It's pretty decent in that it shows an annual rise of 2.1% and a slight...
Breaking: Unemployment Rate Falls
The latest data from the Office for National Statistics published just now states that the rate of unemployment has fallen to just 3.9% of...
Investigation: London’s Affordable Housing Supply. Do The Numbers Add Up?
London’s City Hall have just released their latest house building statistics for the 2019- 2020 financial year and Mayor Sadiq Khan swiftly grabbed the...
Is Now A Good Time For First Time Buyers?
We talked to the Independent newspaper today to explain that the it could well be a time for first time buyer opportunity.
The fundamentals of...
Housing Activity Surges On First Day ‘Back’
The surge in pent-up demand that many within the industry had predicted would take place once the housing market re-opened has become a reality,...
Estate Agency Enquiries Soar On ‘Day One’ Of Property Market Re-Opening
Property Industry Eye reports at 7am:
A flurry of agency activity was reported yesterday as the property market was officially reopened but some firms are...
VIDEO: Estate Agents Benham and Reeves Discuss Re-Opening The Property Market
Marc von Grundherr, Director of Benham and Reeves estate agents was interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning about the Government's move today to allow...
Breaking: Estate Agents Can Return To Work Tomorrow, says Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick MP, the Housing Secretary, is to lay down amendments to the The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 in parliament tomorrow...
Remortgages Surge in April
Remortgage instructions increased 11.8% in the week commencing the 20th April, research from conveyancing platform LMS has said.
Nick Chadbourne, chief executive of LMS, said...
More House Price News This Week – The Halifax Reports
There's a regular procession of house price indexes throughout the month and one, the Nationwide, reported this month as per our earlier piece.
It's stable-mate,...
Nationwide Slash Mortgage Rates
The Nationwide Building Society is reducing the cost of some of its fixed rate home-loans by up to 0.35% and is launching a two...
Property repossessions could soar and house prices could plummet due to pandemic induced recession
Research by leading peer to peer lending platform Sourced Capital has found that the UK property market could see a double-digit rate of property value decline, with the market taking over five years to recover, while the number of property repossessions could also soar as a result of a COVID-19 induced recession.
Mortgage Approvals And Mortgage Lending – The Difference
There's more data out today, this in the form of mortgage volumes as published at 9.30am.
You'll be forgiven for being confused though given that...
New: 10 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage at 2.3%
The Nottingham Building Society has announced a 10-year fixed-rate residential mortgage at 2.30% at a maximum loan-to-value (LTV) of 70%.
No fees are payable and...
New build homes, Mars Bars, crisps, cars and coffee – which offers the best...
We’ve looked at the average cost of a new build based on the price per brick and how this translates to per kg, how...
