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Auction homes sell for 25% below market value

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The average cost of a home bought at auction is 25% below market value, according to new research. The same...

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East London house prices race up due to Olympics

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors with homes near East London’s Olympic Stadium are seeing house prices sprint ahead of the rest of the...

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Revealed – UK cities with the most overpriced homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Oxford homes are the most overpriced in the country, according to an online survey. Two thirds of people think homes...

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Council wants to invest taxpayer cash in buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Councillors want to dabble in property investment by spending millions on purchasing ‘substandard’ buy to let homes. The plan is...

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Rental arrears down, say LSL

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rental arrears decreased for the second month in a row, according to LSL Property Services latest buy to let index....

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Buy to let market swamped by tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The buy to let market is saturated with tenants and the small remaining supply of private rented homes will soon...

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Major accolade for Property118.com (Press Release)

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

NewsNow to feature Property118 News Not only is Property118.com one of the fastest growing Property web-sites in the UK this...

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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...