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Housing Market
Property fall-throughs rise amid ‘fragile’ market
Along with fall-throughs, the cost of a failed sale has also increased, says House Buyer Bureau’s Chris Hodgkinson.
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Long-term empty homes total tops 300,000
Chris Hodgkinson of the House Buyer Bureau says we need to make better use of the existing housing stock.
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Council search wait times balloon beyond four months
Property deals are collapsing as local authority search turnarounds are extending longer putting greater pressure on chains.
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Many estate agents ‘fail to check buyers have funds in place’
Nearly a third of homebuyers do not have funds in place when they make an offer, and many agents are not making checks, new figures show.
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Estate agency property sales blighted by rise in gazundering
Sellers are still facing 'lowball' offers at the last minute before completion, research shows.
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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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Rising property fall-throughs costing buyers and sellers £237.4 million
Analysis from House Buyer Bureau shows the average cost of a fall-through during the second quarter of 2023 was £3,394, up from £3,355 in Q1.
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Fall-throughs at their lowest since pre-pandemic boom
Analysis by House Buyer Bureau shows that the average cost of a fall through during the first quarter of 2023 increased by 2.1% versus Q4 2022.
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Property fall-through rate slows, but total bill tops £1 billion
New statistics from the House Buyer Bureau show collapsed sales dipped at the end of last year, but the annual rate was still up.
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Housing Market
Gazundering makes a comeback as house prices stall
Scourge of vendors returns with a third having offers lowered with just days to go before their sale is set to complete.
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