Has the North-South House Price Gap Started to Close?
While the North-South house price divide remains considerable, the gap has started to close, driven by higher rates of house price growth seen ...
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Supreme Court Backs Residents Against Tate Modern in Landmark Ruling
In a milestone decision today the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal and found in favour of the flat owners overlooked by the ...
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PRS Market Value Estimated at £1.5trn
It’s not just the housing market that has benefited from the pandemic property market boom, with the estimated total value of the private ...
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Nationwide House Price Index: Higher Borrowing Costs Lead to Slowing of House-Price Growth
The start of 2023 saw a further slowing in annual house price growth to 1.1%, from 2.8% in December. Moreover, January saw a ...
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52% of Landlords Look to Increase Rents to Offset Successive Hikes in Interest Rates
By mid-2023, the UK base rate is predicted to reach 4.5%, as a result the majority of landlords are planning to raise rents ...
Ex-NatWest Real Estate Lending Head Appointed to Spearhead Pluto Finance Strategic Growth Mission
Specialist property lender Pluto Finance today announced the appointment of high profile industry leader and ex-NatWest Head of Real Estate Lending Phil Hooper. ...
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Young People More Likely to Opt for Tracker Mortgages
With those on tracker mortgages seeing significant hikes in their monthly repayments, homeowners without the safety net of a fixed-rate mortgage may be ...
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Welsh National Empty Homes Scheme Could See 2,000 Long-Term Empty Properties Brought Back Into Use
The National Empty Homes Grant scheme, that will run over the next two years, has been developed to build on the success of ...
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Six Weeks for Developers to Sign Contract to Fix Unsafe Buildings
Developers today received legally binding contracts that will commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings. The government has set a six-week deadline ...
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Jeremy Hunt’s Blueprint Plan for Growth Lacks Detail
Jeremy Hunt shrugged off his firefighter image for that of a construction worker, determined to help rebuild Britain’s economy. But there is no ...
