The UK’s climbing house prices have always been a significant barrier for first-time buyers looking to get on the property ladder, with recent figures suggesting that half of Millennials will likely rent well into their…
Residential property transactions in the UK fell by nearly 63% in July on a monthly basis, according to figures from H M Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The provisional seasonally adjusted figure stands at 73,740 transactions,…
According to Coutts more homes worth £1 million+ sold in London from April to June than in any other three-month period since their records began in 2013, writes Clive Scrivener, Founding Partner at Scrivener Tibbatts the Wimbledon based…
August is often known as the ‘silly season’ in the media because with so many journalists on holiday newsdesks are very short on good articles and quirky stories can often get covered. Or occasionally very…
The Conveyancing Association, the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has urged the Government to move ‘further and faster’ in terms of delivering the leasehold reform it has previously promised. Zah Azeem, Partner at…
According to the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) by the time the forthcoming Building Safety Bill is given Royal Assent, the number of statutory provisions applying to the sector in England will have risen by…
Now that we’ve reached the end of the Stamp Duty holiday purchasers who haven’t completed their transactions by the end of September might have to pay an extra £15,000 of Stamp Duty to secure their…
We have recently received several instructions from clients who purchased a Help to Buy property, writes Clive Scrivener, Founding Partner at Scrivener Tibbatts the Wimbledon based chartered surveyors. Help to Buy which was first introduced in…
Rightmove Landlord and Tenant Services has unveiled plans for its new ‘Rent in Five’ plan. It’s new lettings service direct to landlords will do much to take away significant market share away for lettings agents,…
Earlier this year Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government set out a five-point plan to bring an end to unsafe cladding, provide reassurance to homeowners and support confidence in…