Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Liberal Democrats to debate ‘fairer renting’ as poll points to hung parliament
The party is likely to hold the balance of power following a General Election and next week will debate its key housing policies at its Bournemouth conference.
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That’s weird! Superstitious vendors cancel completions on Friday 13th
Research into the number of people who complete their house sales on Friday 13th shows transactions are 38% down on comparable days.
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Tax raid on landlords is ‘perverse’ and has FAILED, claims leading economist
Professor David Miles says Stamp Duty increases and mortgage relief reductions have not helped first time buyers get onto the property ladder, as the government hoped.
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Stop bashing property market ‘like a piñata’ leading agent tells politicians
Letter sent to The Sunday Times bemoans the political squabbling over Brexit and Labour plans to further reform the private rental market.
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Central London is experiencing extraordinary recovery says Chestertons, but will it spread?
Upmarket agency Chesterton says prime central London has come back to life in recent months after surge in viewings during May and June.
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No wonder nothing’s ever joined up! Housing minister role has highest ministerial churn
Research by BBC shows at 18 ministers since 2007 the job of being a housing minister is a perilous and short-lived one for most people.
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Property particulars should include prominent fraud warnings, says leading finance firm
ABC Finance says the Land Registry's programme of digitising its property titles and processes has opened the doors to rising property fraud attempts.
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KMPG says house prices will drop by AT LEAST 6% after a hard brexit
Global accountancy firm says leaving the EU without a deal would make the government's house building targets 'impossible to achieve'.
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‘Labour’s Right to Buy would kill off private rented market overnight’
Policy proposal from Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell receives a resounding thumbs down from the property industry.
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Labour to introduce ‘right to buy’ scheme for private rental market tenants
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says he wants to shift power away from landlords including more taxes and 'below market value' right to buy scheme.
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