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Flats are yet to fall out of favour with homebuyers accounting for 15% of all pandemic property transactions

The latest research from Warwick Estates has found that flats have far from fallen out of favour with homebuyers in England and Wales during the pandemic, accounting for 15% of all homes sold.

Months on end of lockdown restrictions have led to the romanticized notion that the nation’s homebuyers are ditching city living and apartment properties for larger homes in the country....

Flats

Have we fallen out of love with flats since Grenfell?

Since the Grenfell disaster in June 2017 and the ongoing scandal around unsafe cladding that has followed, it’s perhaps understandable that many buyers within the market have remained cautious about living in flats.

The latest research by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves , has found that this caution has caused both price growth and transactions for flats to lag...

 Tenant demand is higher for houses than flats or apartments

Rental demand higher for houses but tenants still favour flats in these cities

The latest research from lettings management platform, Howsy , has revealed that tenant demand across 22 major UK cities is higher for houses when compared to flats or apartments.

Howsy looked at what proportion of rental properties is being snapped up by tenants and how demand differed between property types. The analysis shows that demand for houses is currently at 29% while demand...

High-end home buyers are opting for bigger homes in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic

High-end homebuyers ditch flats for detached homes in lifestyle 360

High-end home buyers are opting for bigger homes in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and paying more for them, while transactions and the price paid for flats has fallen.

The latest research by high-net-worth (HNW) mortgage broker, Enness Global , analysed property sales by property type at £5m and over across England and Wales, looking at the average sold price and what...

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Monica's apartment in Friends gets a makeover

SpareRoom redesigns Monica’s apartment from Friends, showing how it would look with the living room taken away and converted into more bedrooms

It follows new research by SpareRoom revealing that a quarter (26%) of flatshares in the UK don’t have a living room

83% of flatsharers who have living rooms believe this space is important for their wellbeing, helping them form...