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There is an increasing disparity in the UK residential property market recovery which is strongly biased towards the top end of the sector, according to new research. The much tal...
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Second home ownership drives up prices in the UK in areas with a high concentration of these types of property and the effect is not just limited to the popular south coast towns,...
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The proportion of households choosing to be owner occupiers is continuing to decline in the UK but there has been an increase in the proportion of private renters expecting to pur...
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Asking prices for UK residential property are 6.1% higher than a year ago after the biggest monthly increase since April 2007, according to the latest figures to be published. The...
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A UK house builder is offering prospective buyers the ability to research the best schools before committing themselves to a purchase. Prompted by research that shows 32% of prosp...
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Property prices in the UK have risen by 10% since the market bottom in April 2009 but the rate of growth is slowing, according to the latest reports to be published. The average p...
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Buying a property in the UK is rated as more stressful than having a child or starting a new job and it doesn’t get any better the more you do it, according to research. One...
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Property investors considering disposing of their investment through a gift or transfer to successors or by sale to reduce borrowings in the expectation of increasing interest rat...
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Property buyers in the UK rushed to complete before the end of last year to beat the end of the stamp duty holiday, it is claimed. The fact that gross mortgage lending surged to r...
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More than one in ten home owners would like to get off the property ladder in the UK which is moving towards a more continental attitude to ownership, according to a new survey. S...
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Residential property prices in the UK increased by 1% in December, a traditionally slow month for the real estate market and are expected to remain flat in 2010, according to the ...
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Property loan approvals in the UK are at their highest since March 2008 and will help the real estate recovery in 2010, it is claimed. The Bank of England’s latest survey of...
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Property is now affordable for first time buyers in nearly four out of 10 areas of the UK, according to new research. The average first time buyer property could now be bought by ...
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Residential property prices in the UK rose by 5.9% in 2009 as the real estate market bounced back from last year’s double digit declines, according to the latest figures to ...
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Properties in the most expensive street in southern England cost more than four times as much as ones on the most expensive street in the north, according to new research. Those i...
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Loans for property in the UK have reached their highest level for two years, increasing speculation that the real estate market will continue its recovery in 2010. The number of m...
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UK property rents fell by 1.3% in December following six months of rises and are now at £820 a month, some 3% lower than a year ago, according to a new report. Supply has incr...
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Mortgage lending in the UK in November was down 10% from October, the first drop since August, according to the latest data published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Although ...
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Next year is likely to be a challenging time for property letting agents in the UK and perhaps even tougher than 2009, it is claimed. In a downbeat forecast for the country’...
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More properties are coming onto the market in the UK but this is having little effect on rising prices, it is claimed. For the sixth consecutive month, more chartered surveyors ar...