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One in four retired home owners in the UK hope to raise £62,000 by moving into a smaller home, new research shows. The top three reasons for doing so are convenience, raising mone...
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The gap in home values in the UK between London and the South East and the rest of the country is widening, according to new research. The strong property market recovery evident i...
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Mortgages in the UK are at their most affordable for 14 years with payments as a proportion of income 21% lower than in 2007, according to new research. The Halifax Affordability R...
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Earlier this week Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, confirmed that UK base rates are unlikely to increase prior to the election in 2015. There was a slight caveat i...
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Occupancy rates for student developments are burgeoning as rooms continue to be reserved ahead of the September 2013 intake, according to property firm Knight Knox International. T...
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Three in five new homes, some 60%, in London are now sold before they are built, according to a report from real estate firm CBRE. Pre-completion sales, often referred to as off pl...
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The indications have been there some time, the UK property market is very much back in vogue and investors seem to be happy pushing prices higher and higher in the short term. The ...
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As the football season gets underway the UK annual research into the price of properties close to Premier League grounds shows that they have increased by 135% over the past decade...
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The UK economic performance over the last five years or so has been challenging to say the least with a near double-dip recession, massive austerity measures and national debt cont...
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Official statistics from the UK authorities today confirmed that Britain has the fastest-growing population in Europe with a net increase of 419,900 between 2011 and 2012. The offi...
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As if to confirm the fact that many investors have very short memories there are signs that the sub-prime mortgage is making a return to the UK property market. Many people believe...
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The average price of a house in the UK has broken the £200,000 barrier, the highest recorded price in over three years, according to new research. It is an increase in new buyers ...
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It is difficult to understand how sometimes we can spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a property and not undergo regular maintenance when we can spend a fraction of that on a...
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At a time when many experts across the UK property sector are highlighting the potential risk of a housing bubble in certain areas of the country, Mark Carney, the Governor of the ...
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Improved economic conditions in the UK are encouraging private house builders to increase construction but they are still not building enough homes, according to a new analysis. Ac...
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Over the years there has been much mention of UK property prices and their phenomenal rise in the longer term which has in many parts of the country pushed house prices beyond the ...
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One in four brokers in the UK claim that the Bank of England’s flagship Funding for Lending Scheme aimed at helping to boost the property market has failed expectations to date. ...
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The Scottish property market is starting to show signs of life with sales up 8.1% in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. Cumulative sales figures increas...
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Landlords and letting agents in the UK are facing rising numbers of ‘tenants from hell’, according to the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC). With the backdrop ...
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Over the last few days it has become apparent that overseas investment in the London property market, especially London prime property market, is pushing values close to dangerous ...