Asking price/Sold price gap narrows thanks to stamp duty holiday
The stamp duty holiday frenzy has reduced the gap between asking and sale prices according ...
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Turbo-charged housing market – prices still rising 7.5% a year
Another house price index shows a super-charged housing market with prices rising 7.5 per cent ...
Property sales at record high
The UK is experiencing “one of the busiest markets in years” as the number of ...
Quarter of agents set to recruit within the next year
A quarter of agents say they intend to recruit new staff in the next 12 ...
Agents caught on camera – they call vendor’s house “disgusting”
An estate agency has apologised unreservedly for “most regrettable” comments made by two members of ...
Stamp Duty deadline – here’s the last date to market a property in time
Agents in England are told that sellers should market their homes by March 23 – only ...
Labour attacks stamp duty break as “a half billion pounds giveaway”
Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak “will give away half a billion pounds to second homeowners ...
Stamp Duty: new cliff edge or cause for delight?
Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears ...
Bad Idea? Stamp Duty Holiday extension could backfire…
A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which ...
Conveyancers call for less aggression in house buying process
A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other ...
Stamp Duty Holiday allows older owners give more help to younger
Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them buy in ...
150,000 and rising! Stamp Duty Extension petition wins more support
The online petition which prompted a debate by MPs has now won the support of ...
One in eight sellers will pull out if they miss stamp duty holiday
Some 12 per cent of buyers will pull out of their transaction if it does ...
Is the London propery market resilient enough to make it through the next year?
London property market predictions for 2021: six major threats identified from Brexit to a third ...
Rishi Sunak is rumoured to be considering an extension to the tax break
Londoners trying to buy a property will save £168 million in tax if the Chancellor ...
Has Lockdown 3 caused a drop in London house prices?
London house prices rise as lockdown inspires home movers but sellers hold off for ...
March 31 deadline extended for Help To Buy completions
The deadline to complete the purchase of a home under the current Help to Buy ...
Stamp Duty loss: 70,000 agreed sales will miss deadline
A new forecast suggests 70,000 buyers will miss the March 31 stamp duty holiday deadline. ...
Brexit and Boris backer calls for stamp duty to be scrapped
One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is ...
Good news for market as mortgage choice hits 12-month high
There’s now more choice in the mortgage market than at any time since last March, ...
Many buyers are scared of negotiating with agents – claim
A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for ...
New tax and billions more for cladding – but is it enough?
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings ...
Foreign investors may be banned from some waterfront properties
The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s ...
The most expensive streets in London
The roads where homes have sold for the most money since 2011. A street in ...