Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Boris pulls out of leadership race leaving Penny and Rishi to battle it out
Boris Johnson, who over the weekend looked to be on verge of making a dramatic return to front line politics has now left the leadership race to make way for Rishi.
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Big property firm blames agency’s losses on lack of stock
H&H Group, which operates across auctioneering, property, financial and commercial services in Cumbria, reveals its agency business has moved from profit to loss recently.
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‘Shady industry lobbying’ is shining the light away from leasehold reform
Sebastian O’Kelly, of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, says that the terracotta army of leasehold professionals is undermining the goodwill of the public.
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Shock Liz Truss resignation – what does the property industry think?
The culmination of an extraordinary few days, if not weeks, leads the Prime Minister to admit she can't govern any longer.
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Agents report huge leap in sales stock despite interest rate crisis
New figures from Propertymark show the stock drought may be over as each agent has 50% more properties on the books.
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Property MOT would save buyers and sellers cash NOW
As a new generation of buyers join the market Landmark’s Mike Holden says this is an ideal moment for lenders to evolve and innovate.
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‘Business as usual’ says agent caught up in Kwasi controversy
Mike Bazely, who featured in the national press this week, says his pipeline has not been hit by the financial turmoil.
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‘Beat the mortgage rate jumps’ auction house tells buyers
Stuart Collar-Brown of My Auction tells buyers they can use mortgage offers before they expire with speedy auction sales.
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Number of protected tenancy deposits rises after Covid
The Tenancy Dispute Service remains the UK’s largest tenancy deposit scheme protecting around £1.8 million deposits.
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Big estate agent-backed mortgage broker joins industry’s ‘green’ push
LSL-backed PRIMIS one of the big-name brands to join the group which addresses green issues in the mortgage application process.
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