Rents for new tenancies in the UK have begun to rise at a rate not seen in the market for over two years, up 3.3% in the 12 months to March 2019, the latest index shows.
On average across London’s boroughs, 31% of the landscape is covered by green space and with an average house price of £530,201, Londoners are paying £245 per square metre in property prices for being near a park.
Owners of new builds who took part in a new survey have overwhelmingly backed a call to be allowed to hold back funds until all faults are rectified in a bid to improve the quality of new properties.
On in three home moves, about 200,000 a year are now made by owners aged 55 and over as a growing number use their huge equity reserves to find their perfect last home, according to new research.
Landlord action to mitigate higher tax costs will lead to a lower level of buy-to-let remortgage transactions going forward, Paragon’s PRS Trends Report for Q1 has predicted.
It has officially become easier for millions of people in England and Wales to remortgage one year after the introduction of the first digital mortgage in the countries.
The British Government has failed to prepare the rental market for Brexit with landlord warning that European Union citizens may face problems securing a home to rent.
A quarter of people who compromised on location when buying their current home later regretted the decision, according to a new survey.
The average rent for a property in the UK grew by 0.96% in the year to March, as slow rents in London (0.57%) continued to weigh down on otherwise resilient rental growth in the rest of the UK (1.16%), Landbay has found.
First-time buyers purchasing new homes using the government’s Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme paid on average 12% more in February 2019 than those buying new homes without the scheme, reallymoving has found.
The average time it takes for a single first time buyer to save for a 15% deposit in England and Wales has fallen but it still takes over 10 years, new research has found.
New guidance has been released on inventory report to help landlords and letting agents in the private rented sector in England ahead of the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act in June 2019.
The cost of living alone has hit 92% of income, making it far harder for single people to get a foot on the housing ladder, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.
New research has suggested that more than half (58%) of landlords are involving accountants when making key property decisions.
Analysts at Berenberg Bank have sharply reduced their price target for Purplebricks by over 80 per cent from 470p to 80p, accusing the company of having “flown too close to the sun”.
House prices in the three months to March were 2.6% higher than in the same three months a year earlier, the Halifax House Price Index has found.
The residential lettings sector in the UK is facing more reform with a new regulatory framework currently being drawn up by a property working party, it has been confirmed.
People renting a home pay 43% less than home owners for housing costs and could see savings of £77,241.61 over a standard 25 year mortgage period, new research shows.
There has been a steady increase in the last eight years in the number of home planning applications granted as a percentage of all applications, up from 73.5% in 2010 to 80.5% now, new research has found.
The majority of people in Britain living in city locations would be happier living closer to work, compared to only just 8% of those living in rural areas, a new study has found.
