I can’t believe it’s already coming towards the end of April, the year is flying by. Property news hasn’t been thick on the ground this month, with much of the ‘same old’ being reported in most channels, so this month’s update is a wee bit shorter than normal and contains a little more analysis of…
It looks like Spring has finally sprung after a month or two of absolutely dismal weather. I still wouldn’t leave the house without your parka if I were you right enough. With Spring in the air and a sense of optimism sweeping across the country as we see the mysterious yellow orb in the sky…
It has been reported today that two-thirds of young people without their own home believe they have no prospect of getting on the property ladder. This is based on a survey of 4000 people by Halifax, one of the nation’s largest lenders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13575857. What does this mean for first time buyers in the coming year? …
Post-Royal Wedding, Post-Plethora of Bank Holiday Weekends, Post-School Holidays, How Has the Property Market Been in May 2011? I’ll be honest: April 2011 was a disappointing month in the property market. The holidays and other distractions certainly took their toll. National property websites reported that the total number of properties coming to the market was…
It’s summer holiday time and conventional wisdom has it that this is one of the quieter times of year in the property market. Conventional wisdom also has it that, come the end of the school holidays, the property market picks up again, partly because people aren’t distracted by having to keep little ones amused every…
I have grown very tired (yawn!) this past month of reading so much negativity in the Press about the property market and property prices. I’ve also got rather annoyed at some of our competitors for, I feel, rather negligently propagating these types of stories. So I thought in this post I would: tell you exactly…
I’m going to divide this Property Market Update into two sections. First, a general market update which hopefully, as always, helps to give an ACTUAL take on what is happening in the property market rather than headline-grabbing statistics that can often be read in the newspapers. Second, I’ll cover the new Stamp Duty regime, announced…
Budget 2013 Property-Related Proposals: The Help to Buy Scheme George Osborne announced his Budget last week and there were significant announcements made that could have a huge impact on the property market. However, with some of these matters being devolved to the Scottish Government, and with different implementation dates for the various schemes, it wasn’t…
The RICS monthly Residential Market Survey for April 2013 suggests that the Government’s Help to Buy scheme has had an instant and positive impact on the property market in the UK.
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