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… Chancellor announces help for businesses until spring
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… Sort Out Searches! Government asked to intervene over council delays
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,… Tier 4: We are still here to help
\ 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… The places where house prices rose nearly £80 a day in 2020
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.… League table of Britain’s biggest 2020 house price rises
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… Election result gives hope for 2020 asking price rises – Rightmove
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… 2021 to start with price corrections, predicts market index
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… Country houses are big winners from the pandemic, say agents
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… Property searches hit new Boxing Day record as boom continues
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… Exodus of buyers from London continues
