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Daily property news in the UK residential sector focused on estate and letting agency, property auctions and property managers.
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Conservative Manifesto launch – Right to Buy for 1.3 million families
Margaret Thatcher did a great deal of good as the UK’s first female Prime Minister, but her Right to Buy…
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Metropix celebrates its seven-millionth floor plan
Metropix, one of the leading suppliers of floor plan based products to the residential estate agency market, has reached a…
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Housing industry lobbyists must be louder, says Alastair Campbell
Housing industry lobbyists have not done enough to make housing a primary issue of the General Election, according to Tony…
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Countrywide further expands lettings business
Countrywide Residential Lettings, part of the UK’s largest estate agency and property services Group, has acquired four successful lettings businesses…
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Labour proposes housing bond to develop 125,000 new homes
Labour plans to introduce a housing bond system to generate up to £5 billion to fund the construction of up…
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Average 2-year fixed rate falls below 3% for the first time
Mortgage borrowing rates are continuing to plunge with the average cost of a two-year fixed rate deal dropping below 3…
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Pensioner property wealth hits record high
Retired homeowners in the UK now collectively own property worth £861 billion with their total property wealth increasing by more…
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First-time buyers return to the market
Almost a third of all residential property sales in February were made to first time buyers, suggesting that market conditions…
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‘Retaliatory evictions’ should be reconsidered, says ARLA
The Association of Residential Landlords (ARLA) is calling on the Government to reconsider a recent amendment to the Deregulation Bill…
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OTM growth ‘concerns’ Zoopla, says Ian Springett
OnTheMarket (OTM) Chief Executive Ian Springett (left) insists that web traffic to the OTM website has proved “buoyant” in March,…
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