Posts by Allen Walkey
Flurry of remortgage activity in October according to UK Finance
UK Finance latest update on lending – November 2017 released end of last week for the month October 2017 reveals: Strength in remortgage activity amongst homeowners, alongside stronger first-time buyer numbers, are likely to have been the drivers of mortgage lending in October. Commenting on the data, UK Finance’s Senior Economist Mohammad Jamei said: ‘The anticipated…
Read MoreShelter issues warning ahead of critical Christmas season
Shocking new figures show Shelter received a call for help every 22 seconds in the run up to Christmas last year, and the charity is warning that the situation this winter could be set to get worse. New research from Shelter and M&S shows that in 2016 the charity’s helpline received over a hundred thousand…
Read MoreZPG confirms no plans to make another offer for GoCompare
ZPG confirmed yesterday 23rd November 2017 that it does not plan to make another offer for GoCompare. As per the statement contained in the announcement from ZPG ‘Further to the announcements by ZPG Plc (“ZPG”) and Gocompare.com Group plc (“GoCompare”) in relation to ZPG’s possible offer for the entire issued and to be issued share…
Read MoreBorrowing by home movers grows strongly in third quarter in London according to UK Finance
News report with data out today from UK Finance headlines ‘Lending in London grew strongly in third quarter’. Uk Finance report that in the third quarter of 2017 in London home buyers borrowed £6.74 billion for house purchase, up 10 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 13 per cent year-on-year. First-time buyers borrowed £3.31 billion, up seven…
Read MoreUK Finance response to Autumn Budget 2017
Responding to the Chancellor’s budget, Stephen Jones, Chief Executive, UK Finance said: “At a time when there is still much uncertainty about the nature of the UK’s relationship with the EU and the impact this will have on future cross-border trade this was rightly a Budget focused on investing in UK plc. “Today’s announcements start…
Read MoreStamp duty abolished for First-Time Buyers in Autumn Budget.
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his Autumn Budget yesterday, the headline announcement which he left to last was that stamp duty will be abolished for all first-time buyer property purchases priced up to £300,000, with immediate effect. In the more expensive areas such as London stamp duty will be abolished on the first £300,000 of properties…
Read MoreCountryside announces an excellent year of growth
Countyside Properties PLC a leading UK homebuilder and regeneration partner, today released audited results for the full year ended 30 September 2017. Countryside highlighted an excellent year of growth with 28% uplift in completions and 32% increase in revenue. Commenting on the results, Ian Sutcliffe, Group Chief Executive, said: “With completions up 28%, 2017 has…
Read MoreRental price inflation slows in October according to Homelet
The latest Homelet Rental Index report – October 2017 reveals average rents across the UK rose by 0.9% in October compared to the same month a year ago. According to Homelet in October 2017, average rental values in London (£1,556) were 71.2% higher than the rest of the UK (£909). Homelet data revealed that on an annualised…
Read MoreHouse sales increase in October 2017
Published today from HM Revenue and Customs, monthly property transactions completed in the UK with value of £40,000 or above – October 2017. The provisional seasonally adjusted UK property transaction count for October 2017 was 105,260 residential and 11,280 non-residential transactions. The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential property transactions increased by 1.7% between…
Read MoreAnnouncement to build 300,000 homes a year in the UK expected in Autumn budget.
New homes will be high on the agenda in this weeks budget according to speculation and comments from the Chancellor Philip Hammond, it is expected he will announce plans to build 300,000 homes a year in the UK. The chancellor is also expected to announce new powers for local councils when it comes to planning…
Read MoreComment from shelter on annual house building figures
Shelter comment on annual housing supply figures (2016/17) released yesterday 16th November 2017 There were 217,350 additional dwellings between 2016/2017, and increase of 15% on last year. (DCLG) However, according to government statistics out last week, the total number of affordable homes built in England last year was 41,530, well below the average over the…
Read MorePrime Minister will say there is more we can do to build the homes the country needs.
Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge that it is her personal mission to ‘build more homes, more quickly’. Speaking ahead of a visit to a housing development in Barnet, North London today (Thursday 16 November), which coincides with the publication of new statistics on housebuilding, Theresa May said: “For decades we simply have not been…
Read MoreRemortgaging was particularly strong in September says UK Finance
Latest press release from UK Finance 14th November 2017 headlined ‘Prospect of rate rise boosted remortgaging in September’. On a seasonally adjusted basis, lending to first-time buyers and movers in September was higher than in August, and there were year-on-year increases by volume and value. UK Finance data shows home buyers borrowed £38.2 billion in…
Read MoreZPG reports agencies re-joining on a weekly basis.
Earlier this week ZPG owner of Zoopla and PrimeLocation, reported that the number of estate agency branches that left to join OnTheMarket (OTM) in 2015 but have subsequently abandoned OTM to re-join ZPG has now reached over 1,000. ZPG in the same report mention that: During the same period that ZPG’s UK agency branch numbers…
Read MoreUK House prices have risen by 0.4% since August 2017 according to HM Land Registry
Announcement from HM Land Registry published yesterday 14th November 2017. UK House Price Index for September 2017. The UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows house price changes for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The September data for UK shows: An annual price increase of 5.4% which takes the average property value in the UK…
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