One in five over-55s plan to downsize
Independent retirement specialist Key Retirement Solutions is launching Keymove Property Services, the first nationwide service to handle the house buying...
NAEA warns against use of quick-sell property...
The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has reported a sharp rise in the number of property companies offering sellers a quick sale service.
OFT launches study into providers of quick,...
The OFT is looking into the 'quick house sale' market and calling for people who have used, or considered using, these businesses to contact the OFT about...
Build to rent gets underway
The housing minister Mark Prisk has announced the first 45 projects to be taken forward using the £1 billion Build to Rent Fund and up to 10,000 new homes...
Debate over housing stock crisis gathers...
There are fewer vacant houses in England than in nearly any other country, Professor Stephen Nickell of Nuffield College, Oxford told a Chalk and Talk...
House building starts in England below 100,000
The number of houses that started to be built in England last year totalled just 98,280, a fall of 11 per cent compared with 2011, according to government...
Fall in number of properties repossessed...
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has reported a fall in the number of properties taken into possession by first-charge residential mortgage lenders from...
Principality partners with builders to give...
Principality Building Society is working with house builders to give buyers with low deposits access to new build properties with mortgages of up to 95...
KFH reports January rise in property search...
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, one of London’s largest independent estate agents, has seen a significant increase in the number of people searching for...
UK property market will adapt to the ‘new...
During 2013 the UK property market will adapt to the turbulence of the past year and begin to stabilise, says The National Association of Estate Agents...