Published by Property Wire on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 Confidence in the buy to let market will encourage significant investment in the sector by UK property investors in 2015, according to new research. This is despite the fact that 52% of buy to let property investors believe interest rates will rise next year, […]
Published by Property Wire on Wednesday, 17 December 2014 A new scheme offering 100,000 first time buyers in the UK new homes with a 20% discount has been announced by the Prime Minister as part of a major push to help people onto the housing ladder. Aspiring home owners will be asked to […]
Published by OPP Connect on Thursday, 11 December 2014, By Adrian Bishop UK real estate demand has fallen to an 18-month low, but the new Stamp Duty reforms are set to boost future sales by up to 5%, say industry professionals. Estate agents expect a sales boost of between 2% and 5% from […]
Published by FT Adiser on Thursday, 11 December 2014, By Emma Ann Hughes Metro Bank has launched a new buy-to-let proposition for its customers, enabling them to hold up to 25 properties in their portfolio. The lender will allow 25 buy-to-let properties up to a value of £5m and 75 per cent loan-to-value […]
Published by Landlord Today on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 Labour Mayoral hopeful Diane Abbott MP has called for a system of private sector rent controls in a paper published today with renter rights campaign Generation Rent. Under the proposals, monthly rents could be no more than 50% of the local annual council tax […]
Published by Landlord Today on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 Young Londoners would rather rent a tiny studio flat rather than a large property which was not so well located. High-end letting agency Knight Frank surveyed 18 to 24-year-olds to ask if they would be happy in a “microflat” – described by the agency […]
Published by Mortgage Finance Gazette on Tuesday, 26 November 2014 Fleet Mortgages, the new buy-to-let and specialist lender, has announced its first product range covering individual, limited company and houses in multiple occupation (HMO) buy-to-let products. Fleet Mortgages is a new lender based in Fleet, Hampshire, which lends exclusively through the intermediary sector. […]
Published by Property Wire on Monday, 17 November 2014 The UK housing market has now cooled following a pick-up in valuations activity in September with October seeing the total number of valuations fall by 20%, new data shows. However, on an annual basis, housing market activity decreased by 10%, an improvement from a […]
Published by FastFT on Monday, 10 November 2014 There are further signs of how conditions are cooling in the UK property market. Council of Mortgage Lenders data show lending to home buyers decreased 7 per cent month-on-month in September to 58,600 loans. The value of these loans also fell 8 per cent month-on-month […]
Published by PropertyWire on Friday, 31 October 2014 Average asking prices in the UK residential market stabilised in the third quarter of 2014 after nine months of consistent growth, according to the latest figures. The average asking price rose by just 0.85% in the quarter but despite this small increase, the average asking […]
