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Tear down barriers to help diversify the housing market, says FMB
Small house builders, who account for just ten per cent of all new homes built across the country, won’t be able to increase their market share unless a series of barriers are removed, says a new report, ‘Supporting SME Housebuilders: Challenges and Opportunities’, commissioned by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) from the London School…
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Breaking Property News 12/12/24
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Adam Pigott CEO of tlyfe outlines the possible future landscape of the Private Rented Sector ‘As we head towards the end of the year, the present Renters’ Rights Bill, introduced to Parliament in September 2024, looks to be on the statute book by summer…
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Rightmove’s 2025 housing market forecast
A panel of experts from the UK’s biggest property website Rightmove shares five predictions for the 2025 home-selling and mortgage markets. New seller average asking prices will rise by 4% by the end of next year, and around 1.15 million transactions are expected, however 2025 is set to be a buyer’s market Beginning of…
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Zoopla Rental Market Report: Rents rising at slowest pace for over three years
Average UK rents for new lets are 3.9 per cent higher over the last year, the lowest rate of growth since August 2021 The supply/demand imbalance is narrowing as demand cools (-29 per cent) and supply increases slowly (+12 per cent) Growing affordability pressures are also a key factor behind slower rental growth in areas…
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Landlords Selling up Growing Challenge for Tenants
The number of households in the private rented sector at risk of homelessness due to landlords selling up has increased by a third since the end of last year. The analysis by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) highlights the need to encourage responsible landlords to stay in the market. According to government data, between…
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Halifax House Price Index November 2024
House prices in November 2024 were 4.8% higher than the same month a year earlier. House prices increased by +1.3% in November, a fifth consecutive monthly increase Property prices are up +4.8% on an annual basis (vs +4.0% last month) Typical property now costs £298,083, a new record Northern Ireland continues to record the strongest…
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Zoopla reveals buyer behaviour in Property for 2024
2024 in Property: Zoopla reveals buyer behaviour and user trends over the past 12 months, after the busiest sales pipeline in four years Disney-themed property in Wales is the most viewed property on Zoopla in 2024 with 219,000 views The average time to sell in 2024 was 33 days, down from 34 days in…
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UK Government’s ambitions for removing unsafe cladding
As at the end of October 2024, there are 4,834 residential buildings 11 metres and over in height identified with unsafe cladding whose remediation progression is being reported on in this release, an increase of 13 since the end of September 2024. Since the department first began reporting on all five remediation programmes in October…
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Rightmove’s weekly mortgage tracker – 5/12/24
The current average asking price of a typical first-time buyer property is £225,340. For someone taking out an average five-year fixed, 85% LTV mortgage, the average monthly mortgage repayment on this type of home is now £1,104 per month if repaying over 25 years, compared with £1,138 per month a year ago (when the average first-time buyer property asking price was…
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Barclays: Rent and mortgage spending reaches 14-month high
Rent and mortgage spending reaches 14-month high, as over half of Brits worry about the impact of rising rent or mortgage costs Growth in rent and mortgage spending increased 8.2% year-on-year last month, reaching a 14-month high, according to the latest Barclays Property Insights report. When asked about their household expenses, four in 10…
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Woodbridge in Suffolk crowned happiest place to live
Woodbridge in Suffolk has topped Rightmove’s annual list of the happiest places to live in Great Britain for the first time The study, now in its 13th year, was completed by over 35,000 people across Great Britain, and asked residents how they feel about a number of factors in their area The London borough…
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Dangerous Cladding – Questions raised by Remediation Acceleration Plan
The government has published its Remediation Acceleration Plan, and pledges that dangerous cladding will be fixed on all high-rise buildings on Government schemes within the next five years. The plan sets out that by the end of 2029, all buildings over 18 metres tall – defined as high-rise – with unsafe cladding that are on a Government…
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Breaking Property News 02/12/24
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Letting agents partner with tlyfePRO and access rent ready qualified tenants for free As we reach the end of Q4 and a New Year approaches, I caught up with Adam Pigott, CEO and co-founder of tlyfe the tenant cycle App (Openbrix) to find out the final scores…
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Annual house price growth rebounds in November
UK house prices rose 1.2% month on month Annual growth rate rebounded to 3.7%, from 2.4% in October – fastest since November 2022 House prices now just 1% below all-time peak Headlines Nov-24 Oct-24 Monthly Index* 536.6 530.4 Monthly Change* 1.2% 0.1% Annual Change 3.7% 2.4% Average Price (not seasonally adjusted) £268,144 £265,738 * Seasonally…
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25% house price premium in National Parks
25% premium for a property situated within a National Park 7% premium for a property within 5km of a National Park 15% premium for a property located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Commenting on the figures, Andrew Harvey, Nationwide’s Senior Economist, said: “National Parks continue to be highly desirable areas to live…
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