The Wombourne office have enjoyed a bumper February 2015 to date. 50% of their new instructions from January have already been agreed showing that if pricing is realistic then there…
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Mortgage wars continue as home buyers find cheapest deals ever
Mortgage rates have plunged to new record lows, the Bank of England has reported, while the price war between lenders shows no sign of a let-up. Peter Brodnicki, of the…
NAEA today releases the results of the December 2014 Housing Market Survey of members
STAMP DUTY REFORMS BOOST MIDDLE MARKET PROPERTIES NAEA member agents record highest level of registered home buyers per branch in December for 10 years. A fifth of agents saw more…
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A new property search service with hundreds of thousands of UK properties to buy or rent will be launching on January 26th 2015.
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First-time buyers storm back to highest level for seven years
The number of first-time buyers last year shot up to the highest level since 2007. According to the Halifax, there were 326,500 first-time buyers in 2014 – up 22% on…
Guide to stamp duty reforms and how they will affect homebuyers
THE CHANCELLOR delivered a welcome surprise in his Autumn Statement last week with the announcement of sweeping reforms to stamp duty, a move that was welcomed by buyers and sellers,…
New ruling on bedrooms says size doesn’t count
A court ruling on what constitutes a bedroom could have implications for estate and letting agents nervous about how they describe the number of bedrooms in a property.
London agents brace themselves for ‘long winter’ of poor sales
Transactions in prime central London fell by almost a third in the three months to the end of September. Lonres, which provides data across the market, says there was a…
Mortgage time bomb ready to explode for thousands of borrowers
A ‘mortgage time bomb’ is looming for people aged over 50 with interest-only mortgages and who had hoped that an endowment would clear the lump sum, typically after 25 years.
