Tag: Housing market

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Buy to let tenants expect rents to keep on rising

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th March 2011, 15 years ago | 2

>Private renters expect to hand over more money every month to their buy to let landlords as they continue to...

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Brokers blamed for 96% of mortgage fraud

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Fraud investigators are cracking down on brokers falsifying mortgage applications. More than 3,500 fraudulent mortgage cases were picked up by...

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Charity’s legal challenge to housing benefit cuts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th March 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Plans to slash housing benefit face a court challenge because they are unfair to disadvantaged families with children. The Child...

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Rents cost more than mortgages in 80% of towns and cities

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd March 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The cost of renting a home is more expensive than buying in 8 out of 10 towns and cities, according...

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Buy to let to surge for months, predict letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Letting agents predict that the demand for buy to let rental homes will surge well in to 2012 as desperate...

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Buy to let homes more affordable for landlords

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28th February 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Prices of buy to let properties in many large towns and cities have dropped to more affordable levels for investors....

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Buy to let market doubled in a decade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of private renters is increasing while home ownership is in decline, according to the latest housing survey for...

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Britain’s property wealth belongs to the over 45s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Most of Britain’s £4 trillion of housing wealth is locked in homes belonging to the over 45’s while young adults...

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House builders ready to move in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th February 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Britain’s leading house builders are looking at changing their business models by moving in to buy to let as buyers...

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Housing supremos pledge support for first time buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Housing Minister Grant Shapps wants key players in the housing sector to join together to help first time buyers find...

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Buy to let bargains for sale as sellers cut prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Investment opportunities for buy to let landlords look good as mortgage availability increases and asking prices for homes continue to...

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Mortgage availability is as good as it gets for a while say lenders

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Mortgage lending seems to have bottomed out in 2010 after plunging from £362 billion at the top of the market...

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Revealed – how property was crippled by the recession

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New figures from the government show how the banking crisis and recession crippled the housing market. In 2008/09 – the...

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Homes sales have slowed again, say estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Home sales slipped to the lowest level for 18 months as estate agents reported a poor month of trading. Fewer...

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Don’t make renting a home a life sentence, say under 30’s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The shameful state of Britain’s housing market is revealed in a new poll of attitudes to renting carried out by...

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House prices soar 91% in 10 years despite credit crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Despite the credit crisis and recession, house prices have almost doubled in the past 10 years, according to mortgage lender...

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Bank mortgage lending plunges to 1999 levels

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Bank  mortgage lending slumped to the lowest for more than a decade  during December as the housing market stalled.

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Mortgage lending slumps to lowest level for a decade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Mortgage lending has slumped to the lowest level for a decade as banks and building societies tighten their grip on...

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New lending rules may change housing market forever

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th January 2011, 15 years ago | 17

Poor mortgage market management by governments and greedy lenders is blamed for triggering the global financial crisis and hindering recovery ...

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House price figures deliver more nonsense values

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th January 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The monthly house price charade seems ridiculous when lenders and the government are still crunching the numbers for November when...