Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Letting agents ‘will be blamed’ for post-Covid homelessness, warns industry figure
Kate Faulkner makes comments during podcast co-hosted by Eddie Hooker and Paul Shamplina as trio discuss post-pandemic future of lettings.
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House sales to top 1.5 million this year as prices rise by 6.6%
Zoopla reports extraordinary figures for this year including sales running at 400,000 more than a normal year.
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New research highlights huge EPC upgrade task facing landlords
Housing data from Sprift reveals that a fifth of all homes with an EPC of Band D or below are within the private rented sector.
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Exclusive blog: What is behind the subdued supply?
Landmark Estate Agency's MD looks at the drivers behind the current property listings drought in the market.
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Rental market booming as tenants push demand to ‘all time high’
Research among landlords by leading BTL lender Paragon reveals two-thirds reporting hot demand for properties.
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Broker laments HGV ‘omnishambles’ as driver shortages hit removals firms
Lewis Shaw of Shaw Financial Services laments the damage current transport crisis is inflicting on the economy.
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Property listings drought continues as numbers tumble by 9%
Latest figures from Landmark Group show dearth of properties for sale continuing for a fifth month in a row.
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Super-prime London rental supply at lowest level since 2016 – Knight Frank
London has become a landlord’s market with rental values in prime central London rising by 2.8% in the three months to September.
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Inflation could undermine house-price growth, says latest survey
Asking Price Index from Home.co.uk says price growth is tailing off, but rental growth has returned and demand is strong.
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House prices stabilising post-Covid, says agency MD
Fine & Country boss says this is the 'new normal' with constrained supply and the search for space an enduring legacy of pandemic.
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