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Avocado celebrates five major milestones in 2025 as partners pass 2000 sales

Avocado Property Agents has announced five major milestones for 2025, including surpassing 2,000 completed property sales since launching in 2020, expanding its network to more than 40 agents and securing a third consecutive national award win for its operating model.

Since its launch in 2020, Avocado says completed over 2,000 property sales in September - a landmark moment that now stands at...

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New Renters Reform Bill Will Negatively Impact Social Tenants as Waiting List Time Rises

Housing Generation specialists, Forbes Solicitors have predicted an initial strain on social housing, and longer waiting time for those on the oversubscribed waiting list . [VC1]

The Renters Reform Bill is due to receive royal assent, meaning it will be approved by the monarchy and the law will officially be set into place.

On 16th June 2022, the Government released the ‘...

Rate of first-time buyers falls in rural areas as families swap cities for countryside

The pandemic has drawn families away from UK cities, pushing rural house prices up and pricing first-time buyers out, according to a report released by the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Increased interest in large family homes in rural areas suggests that families were looking for more space during the pandemic. But data collected by the Institute shows that first-time buyers, often...

Rents up by as much as 30% since pre-pandemic

England rent values increased by up to 30% since pre-pandemic

The latest market analysis by rental platform, Rentd , shows that the average price of rent in England has increased by as much as 30% since the start of the pandemic, as the rental market woes of the pandemic fade into memory.

During the pandemic, house prices skyrocketed but the rental sector struggled. Eviction bans,...

Carter Jonas appointed as Town Planning Advisor for the Science and Technology Facilities Council

National property consultancy Carter Jonas has been awarded a two-year contract to act as the retained planning consultants for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to advise on all planning matters. The contract includes land at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, near Didcot in Oxfordshire, it’s conference centre Cosener’s...

Nation’s homeowners sitting on £2.6 trillion in equity

Market analysis by leading mortgage broker, Henry Dannell , has revealed that the level of equity built up in the property market across England currently sits at over £2.6trn and that’s just those homes that are owned outright, with a 17% increase in this level of total homeownership over the last five years.

Henry...

Rental sector reaction to Gov reform white paper

Eddie Hooker, CEO of the Hamilton Fraser Group, who operate industry schemes such as Total Landlord Insurance, the Property Redress Scheme and Client Money Protect says:

“Having waited three years for this White Paper, we had a good idea of what the rental reforms would look like, and I welcome the Government’s intention to improve the...

Pictured: Penistone St John’s Primary School Were Tasked With Producing Site Names For The 5 Star Homebuilder

Local Pupils Name Two Brand New Developments In Penistone

Local homebuilder, Barratt Developments Yorkshire West has enlisted the help of a local primary school in Penistone to name two brand new developments in the town.

Penistone St John’s Primary School were tasked with producing site names for the 5 star homebuilder, which includes the Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes brands, to feature at two new developments in Penistone....

Private rental sector to increase by 6% by 2025

Private rental sector to increase by 6% by 2025, with 308,000 more rental homes

Research by specialist property lending experts, Octane Capital , estimates that the UK rental market could grow by a further 6.5% by 2025, bringing the total number of privately rented dwellings to just shy of 5.8m.

Octane Capital analysed PRS stock levels across each region of Britain since 2005,...

EUROPA CAPITAL AND ADDINGTON CAPITAL SELL LANCELOT PORTFOLIO FOR £10.6 MILLION

Europa Capital, the pan-European real estate investment manager together with joint venture partner Addington Capital have sold the Lancelot portfolio, a portfolio of 29 residential properties let on statutory tenancies and located predominantly in London and the South East, to Mountview Estates Plc for £10.6 million.

The properties comprise 17 houses and 12 flats all leased on...

Missing a trick! Could vacant property clearance help bring properties back into use

In 1995, the average house in the UK cost £104,000 - that’s adjusted for inflation, so the price-tag was lower. Twenty-five years later, the figure was £240,000[i]. The government responded with targets for housebuilding, with the rationale being that more housing supply should keep down prices. But, are we not missing something?

The UK has 238,000 homes that have been empty for six...

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