As policy on how best to manage coronavirus is evolving daily this suggestion reported here caught our eye. Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and campaigner who runs Tax Research UK, wants to see significantly more support offered…
A membership organisation for landowners, rural businesses and rural professionals has said Scottish schoolchildren should be taught how their actions now can impact on climate change and the kind of homes they will live in…
“It’s not often the Companies and Markets Authority turns the spotlight on the residential property sector, but their press release today is definitely worth a read for anyone who feels trapped in a leasehold contract,”…
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the regulatory body for surveyors, ie us, has called for the government to focus on housing in this year’s Budget, which will be on March 11. RICS’ Budget…
There have now been ten ministers for Housing in the past ten years. The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher and yes, you may ask, ‘Who?’ For the past decade he’s been the Conservative’s MP…
The papers are full of stories that the residential property market is recovering again. GetAgent.co.uk has looked at which postcodes across the nation are the most valuable when it comes to average price paid by UK homebuyers…
We were intrigued by this report from Harrods Estates reported in Property Investor Today that interest from Chinese buyers in London properties has risen from 2.5% in 2016 to 20% in 2019. 2020 is the Year of the Rat…
It’s one of the big issues that separate Generation X and Millennials and their Baby Boomer parents. During the 1980s and 1990s, mass homeownership combined with high inflation and high interest created the concept of…
The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK has risen to 30, meaning that most people will be saving for a home throughout their twenties. However, young people are the least confident that…
Unhappy with Brexit? Is European property an option? In case you were one of those who wanted a different outcome to last week’s General Election, we thought this article in Property Investor might catch your eye. Many…