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Family Fortunes: How family home prices have shifted over the last four years
Zoopla reveals where family-size homes (3-5 bedrooms) have seen the biggest increase in price per square foot since 2016.
‘Monumentally beneficial’ Stamp Duty holiday ‘on course to save homebuyers £1.5bn’
The nine-month SDLT break is likely to cut HM Treasury's revenue by £1.5bn, says estate agency Keller William UK, having already saved property buyers £817m in tax payments.
Forget macro-economics – the key driver in the property market is much simpler…
Rather than politics, currency fluctuations or legislation changes, the market’s sustained performance is actually being underpinned by an innate desire for progress in our lives, writes Giles Barrett...
SDLT deadline is ‘damaging Londoners’ health & wellbeing’, warns Dexters
‘It can't be right to have house movers and their removals vans queuing up in March trying to beat the deadline in the pandemic lockdown’, says CEO Andy Shepherd, as the the agency puts forward a ‘practical…
10% more property sales were agreed in 2020 than in 2019
The sales market has seen a busy start to the year, although asking prices have dipped in the last month as vendors price competitively.
Land Registry data reveals ‘shocking’ fall in flat sales
48% drop in transactions marks 'first official confirmation that fears over unsafe housing are freezing the market'
Buyers & sellers ‘remain largely undeterred’ by lockdown, but half do not feel safe on physical viewings
A third national lockdown has deterred just 14% of buyers and sellers from a purchase or sale in 2021, according to a survey of over 10,000 people, with 81% planning to carry on as they planned.
What has Brexit done to house prices?
The pace of property price inflation in the UK has slowed sharply since the EU Referendum. 14% growth since 2016 compares to 28% - double the rate - in the equivalent time period prior to the vote.
Savills reports ‘an extraordinary rebound’ in prime resi activity
"The volume of activity in prime residential markets [outside London] for [2020] as a whole was the strongest since before the global financial crisis," says Savills.
‘Sales market momentum will fade further in coming months,’ warns the RICS
Housing market activity continues to rise but momentum is easing, according to the latest survey of Chartered Surveyors.
Prime London market begins 2021 with bumper stock levels
Huge inventory builds up across the prime postcodes after Covid blows seasonal activity patterns off course.
Rokstone boss: To shut the housing market jeopardises jobs, personal finances and the economy all in one go
The government may be "absolutely determined" to keep the housing market open, but pressure is mounting from various quarters - including the science one - to pull the shutters down again as Covid continues…