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 auction lots double year-on-year as sellers seek security
My Auction boss Stuart Collar-Brown says sellers’ expectations have not adjusted quickly enough to the current market conditions.
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Starmer says Labour to build 1.5 million new homes
The party's leader told its Liverpool conference 'it's time to get Britain building again' to create opportunities for first time buyers.
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RUBBISH! Agents reject £50,000 house price fall forecast
Lyndon Le Boutillier from Hearnes and two other agency directors say a prediction by Confused.com of huge drops in house prices by the end of 2024 are not true.
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90% of MPs ‘ignorant of Build-to-Rent as housing crisis solution’
Lack of knowledge a key challenge as vast majority would NOT prioritise build-to-rent in their constituency.
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BLOG: ‘Politicians can’t be trusted to build enough housing’
Russell Quirk says that the creation of a national development corporation could solve the housing crisis if only politicians could keep it simple.
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Jitters in prime London market as politics deters buyers
Research chief at Knight Frank says the number of new prospective buyers in London increased between August and September, but was half of that experienced since 2021.
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Property sales fall-throughs blighting quarter of deals
Data from Quick Move Now shows 27% of sales fell through in the third quarter of this year.
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House prices ‘may drop £50K’ by end of next year
Analysis by Confused.com reveals average house prices might fall by more than £50,000 before the end of 2024.
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Empty homes crisis as £212 billion worth of stock still sitting empty across England
Liverpool has the highest proportion of rental stock that’s lying vacant or abandoned with 10,769 vacant dwellings out of 229,863.
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Help to Buy might not be revived reveals housing minister
Thousands of first time buyers are now in arrears as mortgage payments rocket, and housing minister Rachel Maclean says Help to Buy pushes prices up.
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