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Online bank, First Direct, has just released research indicating that homeowners are more likely to save spare cash rather than using it to pay down their mortgage more quickly.
According to the bank, a survey of 1022 UK mortgage holders revealed that 42% are regularl...
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Recent research has indicated that properties marketed online with agents who offer the addition of video, receive at least 38% more viewings than those without the new technology. Online search activity continues to increase (in January, Rightmove announced an all-time...
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Up until recently it was a homebuyer’s prerogative to choose which firm of solicitors should represent them in completing the legal formalities relating to their new purchase. However, following warnings over mortgage fraud by the National Fraud Authority, and dir...
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In an unusual turn around of events, mortgage lender Halifax claims that buying a house is now much cheaper than renting. It calculates that the monthly cost of buying the average three-bedroom home in the UK is now £600; that’s 16% cheaper than the £7...
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DEVON ESTATE AGENT BACKS PIONEERING HOME SALES SERVICE
AssuredSale.com offers a unique service providing commitment at the point of verbal offer for both sellers and buyers during the sale process
A Devon estate agent has become the first in the region to pilot the i...
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In a report commissioned for The Guardian newspaper, the Chartered Institute of Housing has estimated that caps to welfare payments that come into force this week will make 810,000 homes unaffordable for tenants on housing benefit and in private rental accommodation.&nb...
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It’s more bad news for first-time buyers. According to a recent report by the Halifax, one third more first-time buyers will have to pay Stamp Duty this year than last. Despite the fact that housing affordability has, on paper, improved (with the average price pai...
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Confusion still reigns with regard to the Feed in Tariff for solar PV with the government appealing against last month's court ruling that the decision to effectively impose cuts to feed-in tariffs before the end of the consultation period – ie, April 2012 - was &...
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A recent survey carried out by YouGov for Shelter last month has revealed that somewhere in the region of seven million mortgagees and tenants are relaying on credit to pay their monthly housing costs, with many resorting to taking payday loans from lenders demanding an...
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Results issued by HM Land Registry at the end of last year allow an objective analysis of the housing market in 2011. And it seems that many sellers are refusing to accept that their house may no longer hold the same value as it did when the market peaked in 2008....
