Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Property industry shares fall as Parliament is suspended
Boris Johnson's decision to ask the Queen for permission to extend the summer recess sends shock waves through City investors.
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Leave areas of England have seen strongest price growth, claims agency
More inward investment in urban areas in the north and midlands has helped push up prices faster than in London and the south, says Hamptons International.
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When I’m 64! Help to Buy purchasers given huge mortgage length boost
Government has worked with lenders to enable Help to Buy purchaser to remortgage over 35 years.
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‘Thousands’ more to get on property ladder after shared ownership changes
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick makes first move in job as he bids to help first time buyers onto the property ladder.
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Good times back? Mortgage market stages ‘extraordinary’ recovery
Figures for July from trade group UK Finance shows highest number of mortgages for buying homes since 2009.
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Universal Credit crisis: half of tenants in arrears, say landlords
Landlords tell RLA of many other difficulties they face renting properties to tenants in receipt of the benefit as it's rolled out by government.
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British cities are now more affordable, but income multiples remain crazy
Research by Zoopla shows incomes rising faster than house prices, but London's stock is still 13 times more expensive than the average salary.
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Revealed: what’s at stake for property market after a no-deal Brexit
News agency Reuters has released the results of its interviews with the UK's leading property experts about what a good, and no-deal Brexit will bring.
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Property transactions down by 12.4% year on year, claims HMRC
The drop has been blamed on flip-flopping by both the Prime Minister and his ministers over mooted plans to reform stamp duty.
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Huge exodus of landlords predicted as extra time, cost and red tape take their toll
Survey by insurer LV= reveals that 41% or 600,000 of the UK's 1.5 million private landlords are getting fed up with hostile environment created by government.
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