On the day of the 2020 Spring Budget, the Bank of England announced it was cutting interest rates to 0. 25% in a bid to curb the economic disruption caused by COVID-19. Hours after this decision was made, the Chancellor announced a series of reforms to bolster public...
Read moreThe rental market has ground to a halt, rents are falling and existing tenants are struggling to pay. Landlords will suffer the effects of lockdown long after coronavirus restrictions are lifted as tenants fail to pay, viewings grind to a halt, vacancies rise and new...
Read moreLondon’s job market underwrites the value of homes in its suburbs. What happens if we no longer need to go to work as often? What will life be like after the coronavirus lockdown? One relatively straightforward prediction is that working from home will be here...
Read moreYoung homeowners and first-time buyers face being locked out of the mortgage market after banks announced major restrictions on lending to customers with small deposits. More than 1,500 mortgages have been pulled from sale in the last fortnight. Mortgage lenders...
Read moreUK housing market analysts have a problem. There is currently very little relevant data to analyse. Land Registry and ONS data sets, which offer the most comprehensive and reliable picture of the nation’s residential market, have a two-month lag. The last available...
Read moreRemortgage deals are available with rates lower than 1% The coronavirus outbreak may have caused chaos in the property market, but it has also given existing homeowners an opportunity to save thousands of pounds by remortgaging. While hundreds of house purchase...
Read moreRaffle House is running competition to win a two-bed flat in Whitechapel Says it will give away property to a winner no matter how many tickets are sold The company has come under fire for only giving away money – instead of the promised home A property raffle...
Read moreAn inadvertent tax incentive means investors are converting rental stock into holiday lets, and the supply of homes is getting slowly worse Nearly half a million privately rented homes could be taken away from tenants and moved into the holiday lettings sector,...
Read moreThis government guidance applies to people buying or selling private residential homes where they intend to live. Buying and Selling Homes during this stay-at-home period Given the situation in the UK with regard to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), we urge...
Read moreWill Boris Johnson be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? If the Scottish National Party gets its way, he will be. The prospect of the Union’s break-up is the biggest post-Brexit constitutional issue facing the country in the next five years. Mr Johnson...
Read moreAcross Britain, buy-to-let landlords are cutting down their portfolios, selling up in the wake of reductions in tax relief on their mortgages. But despite the government’s crackdown on investors, holding a portfolio is still profitable – or it is for 84% of...
Read moreGovernment plans to offer local first-time-buyers homes at a discount at least 30% have left property experts scratching their heads. While the property industry cautiously welcomed Boris Johnson’s proposal to offer cheap first homes to local people, questions...
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