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02 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![No Excuse Not To Cut Rates Today - Agents’ demands](/upload/images/shutterstock_2103114257(1).jpg)
Inflation back on target and following speculation about a summer interest rate cut have prompted Propertymark to insist that the Bank...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Good news on Inflation expected this week](/upload/images/shutterstock_2289278283.jpg)
Inflation is expected to drop sharply in the April figures due out this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility and Bank of...
20 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Pity The Poor Renter - analyst says tenants face tough conditions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-2-400x310.png)
An Office of National Statistics survey shows that the top three issues facing the UK are still the cost-of-living crisis (89%),...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rates to stay high despite this week’s good inflation news](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
Interest rates are expected to stay high despite good inflation news likely to be announced this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Improving market doesn’t solve underlying problems - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Promising figures from the latest house price index doesn’t mean underlying problems in the market have been solved, warns Propertymark. UK house...
04 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters’ resilience dropping - analyst’s warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...
21 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let lending for older landlords falls off a cliff](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Short lets tax change this week just the first of many in 2024](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![This week’s inflation news may determine a New Year interest rate cut](/upload/images/shutterstock_2164169901.jpg)
All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Bad news on interest rates despite this week’s big fall in inflation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
Inflation figures for the year to October are out this week and are expected to have fallen to 4.8 per cent. That’s...
13 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate optimism fuelled by surprise improvement in inflation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/InterestRatesDecline_400x310.png)
There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...
01 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Many want to go self-employed - but do the figures add up?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/ManSavingMoney_400x310.png)
At a time when the agency industry is being wooed by new self employed business models, a new survey suggests most...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Another interest rate rise likely - but might it be the last for now?](/upload/images/shutterstock_795256498.jpg)
Most economic and housing analysts believe another base rate rise is on the cards for next month - but the sharp...
20 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![High rents push more first timers into buying - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
The property market could be emerging from the downturn, Zoopla says. Annual house price growth remains just 3.0 per cent according to...
04 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Analyst gives bleak warning about housing market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
A prominent business analyst has given a bleak warning about the prospects for property investors and other home owners in 2023. Sarah...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenants renting longer and paying more - new survey’s findings](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tenant_Dispute-400x310.png)
Over the last decade, the proportion of people aged 24 to 64 living in their own home has fallen and the...
19 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
20 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Millions of tenants expect to rent all their lives - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Angels%20Sales%20%20Lettings%202019%20(360x280).jpg)
A new survey by business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown suggests that out of the 20 per cent of households who now rent...
11 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Renters to suffer badly in cost of living crisis, warns analyst](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/UpsetCouple-400x310.png)
Renters are amongst the three groups likely to suffer worst as the cost of living crisis unfolds, an analyst has warned. Sarah...