Has Help to Buy helped the Wimbledon housing market? Zoopla has calculated the areas of London where Help to Buy (H2B) has had the most dramatic effect on the housing market. Tower Hamlets was the…
The UK housing market is showing signs of recovery following a prolonged period of uncertainty, according to JLL the property consultancy. Landlord Today reports that the property consultancy forecasts that the residential property market will remain…
An eye-watering £10.7 billion’s worth of homes are sitting empty in London, according to new research by HomeProtect on unoccupied homes. The overall number of long-term unoccupied properties in the capital grew between 2013 and 2018 to…
Since the start of 2017, around 870,000 planning permission applications have been submitted across the UK as homeowners opt to expand their homes and towns and cities seek to develop amenities to cope with ever-changing…
Estate Agent Today has reported that the information house sellers may have to provide in future about the be transformed, if government property buying reforms are implemented. They are nothing less than a revolution in how property…
Government proposals to reform the way landlords can repossess properties will not work and threatens the supply of homes for rent says the largest landlord organisation. In its response to the Government’s consultation on ending…
Here’s another brilliant article from the always helpful Property Reporter website. “As regular readers of Keeping Current will recall we’re keen observers of The Bank of Mum and Dad. An estimated 60% of first-time buyers receive some…
So after 178 years of trading Thomas Cook has collapsed into insolvency. With debts of £1.7bn the insolvency of the business leaves 20,000 staff without a job and tens of thousands of customers unsure how…
Earlier this month estate agency Countrywide announced that it would introduce a new property report called the HomeFact report after a study involving 15,000 buyers apparently identified gaps in their knowledge which led to failures…
Thousands of graduates across the UK will move to London this month in the hope of embarking on a successful career, despite the extortionate rents and living costs associated with living in the capital. Research quoted…