Housing Market
News covering issues affecting the UK residential property market, house prices, interest rates and buying and selling trends.
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Mortgage criteria eased to boost loans market
Lenders can now issue more high loan-to-income offers under proposals designed to allow households to borrow cash.
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Housing market ‘won’t grow’ without this change, warns top adviser
The Government must change tactics if it is going to re-invigorate the housing market, says Heather Powell, a partner at Blick Rothenberg.
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Market turmoil ‘hits first-time buyers hardest’
Rob Houghton, of Reallymoving, says first-time buyers are the group most exposed and vulnerable to rising rates in the home loans market.
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Housing market enjoys best month for nearly a year
The latest HMRC transactions data shows February was the most active month since the spike ahead of a Stamp Duty deadline last year.
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London flat’s SOLD price drops £450k in seven years
The property in London's Canary Wharf has fallen victim to what appears to be part of a growing trend of price reductions on flats.
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Mortgage approvals rise… before the war started
The latest statistics on home loans from the Bank of England show there was an increase last month, but may not be an accurate reflection of the current property market.
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House hunter enquiries slump 13% in March, Zoopla warns
Uncertainty about the economic situation created by war in the Middle East has hit buyer confidence, says research chief, Richard Donnell.
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Lenders pull entire range of new mortgage deals
The effect of war in the Middle East has led to banks taking all their new home loan deals off the market.
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War forces housing market ‘switch from optimism to concern’, Propertymark warns
Propertymark CEO Nathan Emerson says the mood in the property industry is changing as war in the Middle East continues.
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Urgent action needed to speed up slowing property transactions
Latest figures reveal how buying and selling homes is taking longer as 'fragmented' industry approach fails to deliver, says CEO of Novus Strategy.
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