Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Number of instructions surge led by South East sales ‘boom’
There is a big increase in new instructions according to TwentyCi despite reports the housing market is slowing down.
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Letting agency boost as Government issues Right to Rent warning
Landlords who don’t use a letting agent are the least likely to fully understand their legal responsibilities when onboarding new tenants via the Right to Rent scheme, research from the Home Office has revealed.
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Tenant exodus hits London as tenants look for lower rents
New research shows 40% of renters in London who decide to move will leave the capital for other areas.
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BLOG: ‘Why I still back Brexit’ explains leading London agent
Glentree Estates boss Trevor Abrahmsohn shakes his stick at so called remoaners and argues that the perceived lack of Brexit dividends is 'misunderstood'.
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FirstPort parent company makes move into estate agency
French firm Emeria has bought six-branch Chase Buchanan through its UK arm Campions Group, which shares FirstPort as a sister firm.
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Hybrid agency Nested takes aim at rivals with ‘commission war’
Nested has launched a commission war designed to sink rivals Keller Williams and eXp by putting more cash into agents’ pockets.
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Family-run agency landlord fined £30k for HMO breaches
A Liverpool family run agency landlord has been fined £30,000 for failing to obtain licences for two properties housing students.
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Regulation of estate agents under Radio 4 spotlight again
The issue of estate agency licensing was thrown under the spotlight again on Monday after BBC Radio 4’s 'You and Yours' revisited its fraud expose from December last year.
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Sunak appoints expected replacement for housing minister – sixth in a year!
Rachel Maclean has been appointed as a DLUHC minister to take over from Lucy Frazer, who was promoted to the Cabinet.
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Reshuffle: Another housing minister moves on after a few months
Lucy Frazer, who was appointed as housing minister in October, is now Culture Secretary in Rishi Sunak's Cabinet.
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