Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Agents report property market slowdown – but is it just for Xmas?
RICS says most sales indicators are coming off the boil, but are unsure if it will pick up again in January.
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Lenders approving more mortgages as crash risk subsides, says broker
Lenders including the Nationwide are taking a more positive outlook about the housing market as valuations rise.
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Matt Hancock: ‘I understand concerns over stamp duty holiday backlog’
The Health Secretary has made the comments in response to a letter from an estate agent and constituent in Suffolk.
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Sales market comes off the boil, but activity still at record levels
Number of sales agreed and prospective buyers hit records during October, but are less frenzied than month before.
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New Year will be a seller’s market as supply continues to drop off
Report by TwentyCI says market has been cooling since beginning of October, with demand increasingly outstripping supply.
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Sunak reveals extra £7.1 billion to boost house building…but what about stamp duty?
Chancellor reveals eye-watering debt and extra spending following pandemic, but industry wonder why he ignored industry lobbying.
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Here’s how to get out of the housing crisis, Boris!
Nick Milton, a biographer of much-maligned Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, says our current PM could learn a lot from his time in office.
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‘Millions on tenterhooks’ as conveyancing logjam hits 650,000 transactions
Activity is strongest in the upper end of the housing market where stamp duty savings are most significant.
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Rural rents rocket as urban tenant escape to the country
Latest research from Hamptons International shows a 5.5% monthly rent hike in rural areas while cities sagged by 5.3%.
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Martin Lewis calls on government to release 250,000 mortgage prisoners
The money saving experts has backed an LSE report that seeks to offer the government ways out to solve the problem.
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