The Chancellor has announced new measures to help businesses in the light of the lockdown announced in the past 24 hours. The measures announced so far are: – One-off top-up grants for retail, hospitality and…
A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing search information to buyers and conveyancers. The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) says…
Many agents have been operating under Tier 4 Coronavirus restrictions for some days, but today sees another 20 million residents in England jointing this toughest tier of controls. The new areas are in the Midlands,…
\ Zoopla has revealed precisely how much house prices have risen over the course of 2020. Across the UK as a whole prices rise by an average of £10,177 in 2020, equating to an increase…
London and other urban areas dominate the league table of locations seeing the biggest house price rises of 2020. This is despite the apparent rush from the city to the country because of the pandemic.…
Rightmove predicts that the price of property coming to market in Britain will rise by two per cent next year. The portal says homemover confidence and activity have been dogged by political uncertainty since 2016…
A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see a dramatic downturn. Reallymoving, a price comparison website that runs an index based initially…
The pandemic has reignited the flagging country house market and boosted demand for larger homes with gardens, claims Savills. Larger country houses with labour-intensive outside areas and heavily-protected and listed interiors had been falling out…
Zoopla saw a record 70.5 per cent increase in traffic on Boxing Day as signs suggest the pre-Christmas boom is set to continue into the New Year and beyond. This year’s Boxing Day bounce compares…
High end agency Hamptons has quantified the trend of Londoners quitting the capital in the light of the pandemic. It says that in 2020 London leavers purchased 73,950 homes outside the capital, the highest number…
