Posts Tagged ‘housing ladder’
Strong growth in remortgaging in April 2018 according to UK Finance
Latest UK Finance Mortgage Trends Update headlines ‘Remortgaging bounces back as borrowers put their house in order.’ UK Finance’s latest Mortgage Trends Update reveals there was strong growth in remortgaging in April 2018, with new homeowner mortgages up 36 per cent and buy-to-let remortgages up 32.4 per cent compared to the same month a year…
Read MoreGovernment low-cost home ownership schemes and their effect on social mobility
Recent research and analysis publication 3rd July 2017 on the Gov.Uk website from Social Mobility Commission headlines ‘Low-cost home ownership schemes’. Research looking at government low-cost home ownership schemes and their effect on social mobility. The research finds: Many low-cost home ownership schemes are more likely to benefit better-off buyers. Many schemes are of out of…
Read MoreFTB’s pay record prices to get on property ladder according to Halifax
Recent news release from Halifax headlines ‘First-time buyers paying record prices to get on to property laddder’. Average first-time buyer house price is now £207,693 which is highest on record, first-time buyer average house price in London is now close to £410,000. First-time buyers account for almost half of all mortgage financed house purchases. Martin…
Read MoreHouse Builders get demolished in the markets.
One of the major downsides to the UK voting out last thursday was the negative reaction across the markets, the FTSE dropped the least when compared to other exchanges, the Brexit vote has caused an air of uncertainty that extends far beyond the UK and Europe and looks like continuing for some while yet. One…
Read MoreWaterfords reaction to Autumn Statement
Waterfords reacts to key announcements on housing from the Autumn Statement As chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement unveils the “biggest house-building plan of any Government since the 1970s”, estate agents, Waterfords, says the market needs more short-term solutions, as well as those that build for the future. Is response to news that investors in property…
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