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![Interest Rates, not election worry, hold back housing market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
Leading property players and analysts suggest that the lacklustre housing market figures produced by the Halifax over the weekend owe more...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Popular Buy To Let mortgage lender is latest to cut rates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency snaps up lettings book as part of regional expansion plan](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
Property consultancy Walker Singleton has acquired the book of business of the Boococks agency as part of its West Yorkshire growth...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![How Knight Frank sees it - market update from research guru](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
It feels as though the UK housing market is waiting for something to happen. The prevailing mood is one of anticipation with...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark bats off surprisingly downbeat housing index](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Propertymark has batted away any possible market pessimism as a result of a downbeat price index result from the Halifax Just before...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renting cheaper than owning for most first time buyers says Halifax](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Big mortgage rate cuts likely this year - agency revises forecast](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Knight Frank has revised its housing market forecasts for 2024, just two weeks into the new year. It’s done this on the...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Will tumbling mortgage rates turn tenants into buyers?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Energy Efficiency - owners all at sea over where to start](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
Almost two in five UK owners - landlords and homeowners - now consider improving the energy efficiency of their property an...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Swathes of England and Wales becoming less affordable - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Almost a quarter of England and Wales will become less affordable to buyers by 2025, it’s been claimed. The findings - from...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let mortgage deals pulled from market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Holiday Lets contribute to soaring costs of coastal homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2%20shutterstock_1251325300.jpg)
The cost of coastal homes in Britain more than doubled - rising 56 per cent - between 2012 and 2022 says...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer urges agents to use the hard sell on Buy To Let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer says it’s time for agents to go for the ‘hard sell’ on Buy To Let,...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ hopes rise for a soft landing for sales](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
“Optimism has survived another difficult month” says business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown in response to the latest house price index. Indeed, the industry...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Interest rates to rise again as top agent warns on sales market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
The chief executive of Propertymark is warning that interest rates are likely to rise at least one more time. The remarks by...
09 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage rates could fall by a quarter despite latest rise - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesdecrease_400x310.png)
Interest rates may be on the way up right now following the latest Bank of England decision but there’s good news...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents insist latest price falls are not signs of a crash](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
Agents have spent the weekend insisting that the latest house price fall is not indicative of a crash - and may...
09 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘City of Airbnbs’ has seen country’s highest house price rise](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
House prices in York - where the local MP is leading an onslaught on the proliferation of short lets - have...
03 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Next Year’s Market - detailed analysis by the Halifax](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/2023HappyNY-400x310.png)
The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...
21 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![House price fall is “first sight of mini-Budget carnage” - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...
02 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rebrand in 2023 after agency group snaps up independent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/HappyNY-400x310.png)
Property consultancy Walker Singleton has snapped up the independent Daniel & Hirst agency in Yorkshire. The deal, which was for an undisclosed...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Covid reversal as search for city living drives capital appreciation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/London1-400x310.png)
Increasing demand for homes in cities was the driving force behind the rapid house price inflation witnessed earlier this year, with...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![House prices to drop 10% in next two years - agency’s stark warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_400x310.png)
A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...
10 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Cheaper to buy than rent IF you can afford the deposit](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
The monthly costs for a first time buyer are some 13 per cent lower than that of a similar renter -...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank rental plans much larger than originally announced](/upload/images/Logos/LloydsBank-logo400x310.png)
Lloyds Banking Group - which this year announced its intention to become a private landlord through the acquisition of new build...
07 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: rental reform – how can tech help tenants?](/upload/images/Site%20logos/ProptechToday-1-400x310.png)
‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...
01 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech: could open banking help the lettings industry?](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/SmartphoneUse-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced. And...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Robert Watts acquires long-established independent agency](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyChain-1-400x310.jpg)
North of England agency Robert Watts is expanding into Halifax after completing the acquisition of independent firm Bennett Kaye for an...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![First tenants to move into Lloyds Bank rental units this summer](/img/default/lat.png)
Lloyds Bank says tenants will “within the next few weeks” move into the first of a series of new developments it...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lloyds Bank sets up management firm to handle apartments to let](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Deposits: Warning over complexity of government pledge](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s pledge to introduce a lifetime deposits concept, theoretically making it easier and cheaper for tenants to move, has been...
13 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency opens in legendary town made famous by TV comedy](/img/default/lat.png)
The Yorkshire town immortalised in the long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine - Holmfirth - is the location of the latest...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![High Street bank set to become major UK landlord by the end of 2021](/img/default/lat.png)
A report in the Financial Times over the weekend suggests that Lloyds Bank is poised to become a major residential landlord,...
08 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![How can agents work with property price data and indices?](/img/default/lat.png)
Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...
28 October 2020
From: Proptech & Innovation
![Huge concern over buy to let mortgage market contracting](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Over a third of tenants say: We’ll be renting for life](/img/default/lat.png)
Around 40 per cent of tenants currently in the private rental sector believe they will never be able to buy their...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rents Increase Across UK](/img/default/lat.png)
The most reliable indicator of rental trends in the UK As the largest provider of deposit protection in the UK, our database...
27 August 2019
From: Sponsored Content
![Footballer's agency scores with acquisition of independent](/img/default/lat.png)
A former footballer's estate agency has completed the first stage of its expansion programme with an acquisition. Hamilton Bower, co-founded by ex-Bradford...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Gap between renting and buying at its lowest level for nine years](/img/default/lat.png)
The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...
05 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let is still good - but investors want cheaper high-yield properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the 10 best (and worst) performing locations for buy to let](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Blackburn named as latest buy-to-let investment hotspot](/img/default/lat.png)
Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest. The online mortgage...
27 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Booming young independent agency set to hit £1.5m turnover goal](/img/default/lat.png)
A young independent agency in Manchester is set to hit a £1.5m turnover target after just 18 months following the addition...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Has the surge in buy to let caused huge spike in prices of apartments for sale?](/img/default/lat.png)
Data from the Halifax suggested that the average price of a flat has increased by £86,474 (£1,029 per month) since property prices...