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BREAKING NEWS: 18/01/2021
DEBATE IN GOVERNMENT ON EXTENDING STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY Having exceeded 100,000 signatures, on the petition asking for a debate on SDLT and extending the holiday date, there will be 48 hours before a date is given for when the debate will be heard. When the matter is debated and IF the extension is allowed on the strict…
Andrew Stanton
Rightmove House Price Index – Activity surge by new buyers, despite slim chance of beating tax deadline
Average price of property coming to market falls by 0.9% (-£2,887) this month, with some new sellers still hoping to tempt buyers and squeeze in a sale before the stamp duty holiday ends New buyers unlikely to beat the deadline as average time to complete a purchase is now over four months Logjam update: mammoth…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 15/01/2021
PETITION FOR EXTENDING STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY – WILL HIT 100,000 SIGNATURES TODAY With only 6,000 needed to sign the petition today, a debate on whether the stamp duty holiday will be extended looks certain, less certain is what the government will come up with. NUMBER 10 AND PROPERTY INDUSTRY SUPPORTS DIGITAL LOGBOOKS FOR HOUSING The…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 14/01/2021
SDLT HOLIDAY – MOMENTUM CONTINUES 83,000 SIGNATURES AND RISING Only three days ago 52,000 had signed the petition that would force the government to debate whether the SDLT – holiday should be extended past the 31st of March deadline. Gaining roughly 10,000 new signatures a day, it now has over 83,000 signatures, so by Friday of…
Andrew Stanton
Standford-le-Hope in Essex sees New Modular Homes
With ever increasing demands for new homes and especially those which are affordable, then many will be pleased to hear of 130 new homes for the Essex town of Standford-le-Hope. Sustainability in many industries is always welcomed. Modular homes are what have been passed and will be supplied by Ilke Homes – The site is…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 13/01/2021
ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING – HMRC SCORES ON THE DOORS Annually HMRC posts on their government website those who have been shown to have breached the AML regulatory framework. This year only a tiny handful of agents were on the naughty list, which given the amount of transactions that take place, 1.1M completions, hundreds of thousands…
Andrew Stanton
BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 12/01/2021
SIR KEIR STARMER WADES INTO VIEWINGS DEBATE Though largely supportive of the Conservative’s Covid-19 handling, albeit he feels Boris is often behind the curve of what to do, the leader of the opposition has opened his big guns on the sanctity of agents doing physical viewings, asking why ‘It is still possible at the moment,…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 11/01/2020
TECLET AND FIXFLO COLLABORATION As predicted only a few days ago 2021 will see some seismic collaborations, and Fixlo and Teclet are now to be joined at the hip, which will greatly enhance both the consumer ride – the UX, and give both sides potential new client streams. In lots of ways it also makes…
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Construction starts on over 100 new affordable homes in Nottingham
Work to build 106 new council houses has started in Top Valley. Nottingham City Homes (NCH) was given planning permission to build the properties on land on Whitcombe Gardens, which is where the former Eastglade School stood. It was closed in July 2007 and demolished soon after. The 106 new homes include 23 one bed flats, 63 two bed houses and 20 three bed…
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Leasehold law changes: how will the property market react?
The government has proposed the reform of leasehold laws, with new rules possibly arriving within two years. We analyse whether the prospect of the new rules will have an impact on the property market from today. What are the key proposals? There are three major proposed changes, further details of which are on the government…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 08/01/2020
PROPERTY CLADDING SCANDAL CRISIS GROWS Yesterday there was joy with Leasehold reforms moving forward, which would free up homeowners living in properties that had become tainted and hard to sell, and of course meant ratcheting costs. But there seems no end to the chaos caused by the external cladding debacle which has left around 900,000…
Andrew Stanton
Busiest ever start to the year as home-hunters seek New Year moves
Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever start to a new year, with visits to the site up 30% on the same time period in 2020 Very early signs of activity continuing to grow during the new lockdowns in England and Scotland, with over six million daily visits to the site on Tuesday and Wednesday People…
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Leasehold reforms are long overdue
Housing secretary, Robert Jenrick has announced leasehold reforms to end some of the bad practices seen in recent years, as well as make it easier for homeowners to buy their freeholds. Richard Beresford, chief executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), said: “These long overdue changes must be the first of many to protect…
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BREAKING NEWS – 5 top stories 07/01/2021
WILL LOCKDOWN 3.0 EXTEND RISHI’S SDLT HOLIDAY? Many predict that in the early March Budget or just before the Chancellor may extend the 31st of March dead stop deadline for SDLT. With 50,000 plus signatures still needed on the petition pushing for an extension, which would then trigger a debate in the house of commons,…
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Peabody to acquire 142 affordable homes at Television Centre
Stanhope, Mitsui Fudosan and AIMCo (the joint venture “JV”) announce that they have exchanged contracts with Peabody who will acquire 142 new affordable homes in two new buildings at Television Centre, London, W12. The buildings form part of the wider Television Centre development which will eventually have c 950 homes in total. Stanhope is also…
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