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Property Landlords Still Buying

The latest research from Benham and Reeves shows that despite the imminent rollout of Making Tax Digital and the Renters' Rights Act bringing new levels of compliance, regulation, and control over their properties, buy-to-let landlords are still buying up property assets at an increased rate, with the total buy-to-let mortgage value being lent increasing by more than 20% over the past year.

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63% of British workers have considered living elsewhere since the start of the pandemic

New research reveals the top 13 places that Brits would move to since remote working

UK money transfer platform, MoneyTransfers.com , commissioned OnePoll to conduct a poll of 2000 Brits. It revealed that 63% of British workers have considered living elsewhere since the start of the pandemic.

Just under 1 in 2 of British workers have thought about moving within the next 12 months, despite the ongoing pandemic. However, when we break it down by age, there's a...

The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating four of the UK’s biggest housebuilders

Ground rent scandal could your new build be affected?

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating four of the UK’s biggest housebuilders after “troubling evidence” has been exposed over the way they have been selling leasehold agreements.

The investigation into Barratt Developments, Countryside Properties, Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey came about due to complaints from buyers claiming they have become stuck in...

The best nation to be twinned with for a buoyant property price in the domestic market is Hungary.

Hungarian twin town locations fetch the highest house prices in Britain

The latest research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has revealed what your town’s foreign twin says about the quality of your domestic property market.

GetAgent.co.uk took the list of British twinned towns and sister cities released last week by the ONS and pulled data from the Land Registry on house prices for each one. GetAgent.co.uk then looked at the average...

What can £3m can get you in the global property market across 24 cities

What can £3m get you in the prime global property market?

While the high-end property market may attract a certain type of buyer wherever you are in the world, the property you can secure differs greatly from one market to the next.

The world's leading high-net-worth mortgage broker, Enness Global , has taken a look at what £3m can get you in the global property market across 24 cities, based on the current value of property per square...

Demand for rental homes across the UK’s major cities has increased

Rental demand continues to rise across the UK’s major cities

The latest Rental Demand Index for Q3 from lettings management platform, Howsy , has revealed that demand for rental homes across the UK’s major cities has increased +13% since Q2.

Howsy’s index looks at rental listings across all of the major property portals, taking an average demand score for the nation’s major cities based on where has the highest number of properties already let...

Average house prices in urban areas are 10% higher

Are city home sellers really heading to the country?

The romanticised notion that many city-based homeowners are upping sticks and, well, moving to the sticks, has been heavily featured in the press in recent months.

However, the latest research by Barrows and Forrester suggests that this isn’t quite the case. Well, not yet anyway.

Barrows and Forrester analysed the latest transaction data from the Land Registry, splitting...

Property market boom sees estate agents earn nearly £1bn in commission so far this year

Estate agents have pulled in nearly £1bn in sales commission since the start of the year, according to homebuying platform, Yes Homebuyers .

Yes Homebuyers looked at the average fee charged by estate agents in each area, the number of transactions that have completed so far this year, and what this equates to in terms of the commission earned by estate agents across England and Wales...

The property market stood firm in Q2 despite the broader turbulence of lockdown.

Property market stands firm in Q2, but sellers are still too over-optimistic

The latest summary of market health from leading lettings and sales agent, Benham and Reeves , has revealed that the market stood firm in Q2 despite the broader turbulence of lockdown.

You can find the main findings below, as well as the full Q2 index attached.

Benham and Reeves have combined data from the top four house prices indices to give an overall view of market...

How much it would cost to build your very own 3 bed, semi-detached gingerbread house.

The Cost of a Real-life Gingerbread House is Revealed

Bake Off is back, bringing just the kind of sugary boost this country needs and it has the mortgage experts at Bankrate UK thinking, ‘ what if we could build a gingerbread house in real-life? ’

Using an adapted recipe from the baking Queen herself, Mary Berry, along with data on the cost of land in the UK’s major cities, Bankrate UK has uncovered how much it would cost to...

The UK's top DIY hotspots

It’s official, Norwich, the city famous for Colman’s mustard, Alan Partridge, and Admiral Insurance, is the UK’s DIY capital!

That is according to research conducted by The Metals Warehouse , the UK’s leading supplier of custom-cut metals.

Its data has shown that the East Anglian city, which is also renowned for its ‘on the huh’ phrase, a Suffolk saying meaning something is...

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