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House prices stuck in a rut for up to 10 years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices are stuck in a rut and are unlikely to recover to anywhere near pre-credit crunch prices any time...

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Parking spaces cost more than many homes in London

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Car parking spaces in plush Knightsbridge are selling for more than the average price of a house in the rest...

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London rents soar to double the UK average

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

London landlords are picking up rents that are double the average for the rest of the country. The capital is...

Amnesty For Tenancy Cheats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Illegal sub-letters have been given until July by A2Dominion Housing Group to hand over their keys in an amnesty announced...

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Do estate agents really know the price of a house?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

How a house is really valued is the subject of a seemingly never ending debate raging between economists, estate agents,...

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House Prices Up, Say Halifax

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The rollercoastering nature of the property market has been further confirmed by Halifax’s latest index. Over the past 12 months...

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More tenants in arrears as rents keep rising

Author: Neil Patterson

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 75,000 buy to let tenants are in rent arrears – a 13% increase on the same period last year,...

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Bank of England is Googling housing market data

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The real worth of official housing market statistics has received another knock with the revelation that Bank of England researchers...

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Bridging lenders aim for £8 billion buy to let boost

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let lending is likely to increase by billions over the next three years as smaller, independent lenders come...

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Home ownership beyond reach of ‘Generation Rent’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

High housing costs are hitting ‘Generation Rent’ hard, leaving them struggling to make ends meet. When utility bills, council tax...

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EU ready to regulate buy to let mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 2

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is not commenting on news that a major battle over regulating buy to let mortgages...

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Rent prices still going up according to LSL

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rents are raging out of control in some areas of the country as tenants desperate for a home gazump their...

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MPs urged to vote for measures to curb landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th June 2011, 15 years ago | 3

A proposal urging MPs to vote for tighter regulation of private landlords is likely to be booted out of Parliament...

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Flatlining property market is as good as it gets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The mortgage business is flatlining as buyers, sellers and lenders wait for the property market to jump start. The latest...

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Mortgage Express sets aside another £80 million for fraud

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Buy to let specialist Mortgage Express expects to write-off another £80 million to loan fraudsters and slack business practices this...

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Property paupers will rent for life, predicts think tank

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th June 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Millions of would-be householders will turn in to a generation of property paupers as all hope of buying a home...

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One in three Brits predict house prices will rise in next year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Data from the recent Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker reveals that a third of Britons expect house prices to rise...

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HMRC starts criminal cases against tax cheats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

HM Revenue and Customs is planning to flood the courts with criminal and civil cases against tax cheats after the...