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Housing associations join forces to build 106 affordable homes
Both the GHA and Provanhall Housing Association are combing efforts and constructing the new, energy-efficient houses and flats at Auchinlea Road to provide Easterhouse with 106 new affordable homes a block of 21 flats will be designed to help older tenants live more independent lives. The £14 million development which will see 80 homes delivered…
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Is the housing crisis returning as a Government priority?
Planning reform will go a long way to helping solve the housing and skills crisis. Addressing the policy conference of the Home Builders Federation (HBF), Housing Secretary James Brokenshire set out what the Government is doing to tackle the housing shortage and improve the quality of new homes. Brokenshire emphasised: the need to reduce planning…
National Federation of Builders
End of the line: 10 commuter options that save £91 rent per minute…
The latest research by automated property management specialists, Howsy.com, has looked at how much London’s tenants could save by buying at the other end of a direct rail line into London. Howsy looked at 10 locations just outside of the M25 with direct links into major London transport hubs of 41 minutes or less, comparing…
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NFB helps members with the EU Settlement Scheme
NFB concerned that many skilled construction workers may not have the language or technical skills to understand how to apply for settled status. The National Federation of Builders (NFB) is concerned that many skilled construction workers may not have the language or technical skills to understand how to apply for settled status. From 30 March…
National Federation of Builders
“87,000 properties worth an estimated £100bn are owned by anonymous overseas companies”
I was reading a recent news article on the Manx Radio website, national public service broadcaster of the Isle of Man, where they highlighted the problem of money laundering and quoting from a feature from Burnley Express stating that properties on Isle of Man have links to ‘offshore tax havens’. It sounds like deeper investigations…
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VeriSmart Rental Demand Index: Cambridge tops the table for highest rental demand
The latest research by VeriSmart, the UK’s only combined lettings inventory and property compliance specialists, has looked at where across the UK is home to the highest levels of tenant demand for rental properties. VeriSmart analysed rental listing data across the major property portals, ranking each of the UK’s 100 largest cities on the proportion…
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London market endures worst rate of decline in a decade as UK market trudges on
Comments re the latest Nationwide House Price Index: Founder and CEO of Yomdel, Andy Soloman, commented: “A tad ambitious to expect anything other than subdued market conditions given that we remain very much in the eye of the political storm that has been building since June 2016. However, despite this and the continued trepidation shown…
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NFB: Brownfield first is the correct approach
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) published an updated analysis on the potential of brownfield land for housing. It calls for a stop to the unnecessary loss of our countryside and green spaces. Identifying suitable brownfield land for more than one million homes across 18,000 sites, the CPRE called on the Government to implement…
National Federation of Builders
Housing unaffordability slows to lowest rate in five years according to the ONS
Property expert and Yomdel CEO, Andy Soloman, commented: “An almost static movement in the rate of housing affordability is, in some ways, positive news for UK home buyers and one consequence of a bodged Brexit process that we can chalk down as a win of sorts. However, while the rate of unaffordability has slowed significantly…
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Housing affordability worsens to 7.8 times salary
We all know that property prices are too high and especially rental costs. We have seen rocketing prices in recent years though relief seems to be on the horizon as prices are cooling off and in deed falling in many areas and with the Monty Python Flying Circus team, opps sorry, I meant the Government…
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@OnTheMarket providing more leads than @Rightmove? So agents say…
A growing number of estate and letting agents advertising their properties at OnTheMarket.com say they are receiving more leads from the agent-backed portal than they are from Rightmove. Terry Holmes, Director of Beresfords, a 17 branch sales and lettings agency in Essex, said: “For the best part of a year, the gap between the number of overall leads…
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February Price Paid Data from HM Land Registry
This month’s Price Paid Data includes details of more than 82,000 sales of land and property in England and Wales that HM Land Registry received for registration in February 2019. In the dataset you can find the date of sale for each property, its full address and sale price, its category (residential or commercial) and…
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Think UK estate agent commission is high? You could be paying £13.7k in the EU
Research by leading estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has looked at the cost of selling your home when enlisting a professional and how this compares to the rest of the EU. Despite much being made domestically about the high commission fees charged by high street agents, in particular, the current average fee of 1.2% excluding…
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Prime central London transactions fall below 66 per week according to LCPAca
The latest index shows that across prime central London: – Transactions have fallen below 66 a week Average annual prices in February (excluding new build) in PCL amount to £1,812,051. Monthly prices fall by 6.2%. Prices in the last quarter fall by 12.7%. Annual transactions remain just above historic lows, standing at 3,405, a fall…
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Dublin Property drop €7,500 in value so far in 2019
Good news for those first time buyers, bad news for investors – Property prices in Dublin have seen a three month decrease in 2019 with an average of €7,500 being whipped off values (according to REA Average House Price Index). It is one of these negative yet positive figures, were the average house prices are…
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