New research from upfront information platform, Home Sale Pack, reveals that nearly 3,000 home sellers entered the housing market in the week following the UK general election. Home Sale Pack has analysed property market data in Great Britain to see how many sellers entered the market in the week preceding the general election, and how many […]
New data analysis from Yopa, the full-service estate agents, reveals that last year cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the last decade and, so far this year, they’ve already accounted for a third of all purchases. Yopa has analysed the split between cash homebuyers and mortgage homebuyers in the UK […]
Overall home price rises are being kept in check by high stock levels and stubbornly high mortgage costs, according to Home.co.uk’s asking price index for July. But there is regional variation. While Greater London, adjacent regions and the South West remain in recovery mode, the northern, Scottish and Welsh markets have more than made up […]
Housing Plus Group provides affordable homes and care services in Staffordshire and Shropshire. The Group’s businesses share one vision – to be a resilient organisation, that makes a positive difference to homes, lives, and communities. They include: 1) Homes Plus which owns more than 19,000 affordable homes and also provides employment and money advice for customers, as well as support and […]
Prime London rental growth picked up in Q2 (0.7% from 0.3% in Q1), according to the latest index results from Savills, as the market falls back to pre-pandemic patterns. But growth has slowed to 2.5% on the year. This is the lowest level in almost three years, signalling that rents are coming up against affordability […]
Brickflow, the UK’s marketplace for specialist property finance, today announced the launch of regulated bridging finance on its loan sourcing and application platform. The addition provides intermediaries and their borrowers with a fast, efficient way to compare loans from the breadth of the regulated bridging market, and apply for secure funding. The regulated bridging market […]
Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL, BSE:532809), a leading global provider of Business Process Services and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, has today announced its partnership with Digilytics AI to launch a new buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage solution – ‘Mortgage Shared Services’. This offering aims to provide the UK buy-to-let mortgage market with a comprehensive solution to […]
The majority of buy-to-let landlords have said that they plan to raise rents in the coming 12 months, new data from the Landbay survey can reveal. While nearly 85% of landlords made the admission, more than a third (36%) said they plan to raise rents by up to 5%. This is an increase from 27% […]
Offa, the UK’s first Sharia-compliant bridge finance fintech, has today launched an innovative new buy-to-let finance (BTL) service – with fast funding decisions delivered via a modern paperless process – aiming to disrupt and transform the traditionally old-fashioned and cumbersome world of Islamic finance. Powered by the latest software, Offa’s BTL service meets the needs […]
A new consultation draft version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is expected to be published, which will reverse many of the changes introduced at the end of 2023. This might also be accompanied by a Written Ministerial Statement. For effective reform, the new government needs to be able to establish a clear direction […]
