Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Sales agreed during August at highest level since 2015, claims portal
Rightmove claims sales agreed are also up by 6.1% during August compared to last year as people tire of waiting for Brexit to be sorted one way or another.
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Happier, Ed? Sheeran’s celebrity home buying spree in Suffolk
The star has been keeping agents busy in his home town recently as he's hoovered up half a dozen properties in the area.
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Estate agents who value high to win instructions to be revealed
Swirb says its new approach to crunching housing market data will enable vendors to spot when an estate agency is over-pricing their home.
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Rents rising at the same rate as inflation
Research by tenant referencing specialists, HomeLet, shows the average rent is up by 2.3% at £959.
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Repossessions hit the highest number since 2014
The latest official data show that mortgage lenders’ claims for home repossession in England and Wales rose to the highest since late 2014 during the three months to June, this year.
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Housing charity attacks industry over its tenant fees claim
Shelter says ARLA's claim that ban is pushing up rents is 'absurd' and 'scaremongering' but latest RICS data backs Propertymark up.
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Brexit making TV programme filming ‘difficult’ claims auctions show star
Martin Roberts says shrinking number of auctions lots is making his job harder as Brexit impacts the buy-to-let market.
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Brighton pursues desperate tactics to solve student renting crisis
Local housing co-operative plans to turn an ex guest house on the seafront into affordable student accommodation as other options run out for less wealthy graduates.
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Spring property market bounce ‘peters out’ as Brexit drags on
Latest figures from the Halifax show a second month of weakening house prices as the UK's exit from the EU continues to bite hard into buyer and seller confidence.
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RICS tweets calls by letting agent to increase regulation of short lets in Scotland
Leading Edinburgh letting agency says landlords are being forced into the short-lets sector by the 'robust regulation of long-lets by the Scottish government.
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