Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Home buyer enquiries continue to surge but for how long, asks RICS
Latest survey of member agents shows a market still simmering rather than booming as too many buyers chase too few properties.
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Estate agencies earned £3.9 billion in sales fees last year, up 37% on 2020
Eye-popping figures from Boomin show the extraordinary explosion in sales activity last year after the long months of Covid.
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Leading agent warns over ‘self defeating’ eviction changes
Niall Stringer says plans to remove mandatory grounds for recovering property via the eviction process would do more damage than good.
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Growing BTR firm says it will be keeping its services ‘all in-house’
Cortland says its success in the US has been built on keeping control of service quality, its UK boss says.
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Don’t use floorplans, videos or high-res images, vendors are told
Property services firm is worried that too much information is being given to burglars in property listings by agents including floorplans.
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Book to reveal ‘buy to let scam of the century’ and property agents involved
Dramatic claims is made by author and journalist Neil Bromage for his new book The Great British Property Scam.
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Demand hugely outstripping supply in central London despite looming recession
Prices have risen by 5% and rents by nearly a third year-on-year, latest data from LonRes shows.
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Landlords slam government over its ‘damaging’ attacks on rental sector
Patience with Ministers appears to be wearing thin at the NRLA which says tax, regulatory and other assaults on landlords are beginning take their toll.
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Propertymark CEO slams Shelter over its ‘relentless’ campaign to end Section 21
Nathan Emerson is unusually blunt in his criticism of Shelter's claims, which he comprehensively pulls apart as 'not representative' of PRS reality.
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‘Buyers should provide more material information to keep the time wasters out’
Boss of Gazeal makes the claims as he proposes that both sides of the home buying and selling process need to have more 'skin in the game'.
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