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Stamp duty for southern first-time buyers exceeds £7,500
Property website, SmartNewHomes.com, estimates that stamp duty for those buying a first home in the South of England averages 7,533. London first-time buyers ar...
Asking prices rise as housesellers ignore market realities
Rightmove has reported that in March, the average asking price of a UK home rose 0.8%, or 1,799, to 239,655. The property websites commercial director, Miles Sh...
Rates increase on empty commercial property
The Government is warning owners of empty commercial property that vandalism aimed at avoiding paying increased rates will not be tolerated. From April, local a...
Commercial property values continue decline
Songbird Estates, the commercial property firm that owns over half of Londons Canary Wharf, has reported that the value of its property fell by 4.3% in the seco...
Housing market predictions shift as credit crunch continues
The latest house price index from Nationwide shows that the cost of the average UK home has declined almost 7,000 since October of last year. In March, the inde...
Part-exchange - a different way to move house
A slowing housing market has led some vendors to look into the benefits of part-exchange, also known as PX among the UKs housebuilders. In recent years, tens of...
Affordability ratio demands 27% drop in UK house prices
A new report from credit ratings agency, Standards Poors (SP), is predicting that the UK housing market is due a major (and likely painful) adjustment. The anal...
Halifax records 2.5% fall in house prices
Latest figures from Halifax, the UKs largest mortgage lender, show a 2.5% fall in UK house prices in March. The drop is the sharpest in a month since September ...
Halifax records 2.5% fall in house prices
Latest figures from Halifax, the UKs largest mortgage lender, show a 2.5% fall in UK house prices in March. The drop is the sharpest in a month since September ...
PM to meet with banks to discuss housing market crisis
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to meet bank chiefs for breakfast talks tomorrow at Number 10 to discuss the current housing market crisis. Last week, The Bank o...