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Mortgage approvals fall but the Brexit-related drop in lending 'looks behind us'

Data from the Bank of England shows 62,932 mortgage approvals for house purchase in September.

Oct 31, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Bank of England UK Housing Brexit

Paying a mortgage is now cheaper than renting in most UK cities

Monthly repayments on mortgages are often lower than city rents, says Zoopla.

Oct 30, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing

Chinese woman sells 20 iPhone 7s gifted by ex-lovers to buy her first home

Woman got 115,010 Chinese yuan after selling the phones on recycling mobile phone site, Hui Shou Bao.

Oct 29, 2016

By Samantha Payne

UK's largest private house builder Cala Group in talks to be acquired by a Chinese company – report

According to analysts, the potential deal value could be around £600m.

Oct 29, 2016

By Kedar Grandhi

UK Housing

Homelessness England London Shelter DCLG

Bob Blackman's landmark Homelessness Reduction Bill is step closer to becoming law

The bill will place more legal duties on councils to tackle homelessness in their areas.

Oct 28, 2016

By Shane Croucher

House builders England UK housing property

What the property industry wants when the UK triggers Article 50

We asked those in the residential property sector what they want from Brexit deal. Here's what they said.

Oct 27, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing Brexit

UK commercial property market improves but London and Scotland lag behind, Rics says

Industrial sector leads the rebound, while demand for offices and retail space remains flat.

Oct 27, 2016

By Kedar Grandhi

Housing crisis: Should London follow Hong Kong's lead with tiny studio flats?

Swire Properties is putting 142sq ft studio flats on the market for rent in Hong Kong.

Oct 26, 2016

By Shane Croucher

London Hong Kong

Londoners face waiting longer to sell their home as stamp duty hikes and Brexit weaken market

Report from Post Office Money Mortgages shows 91 days is the average time to sell a house in the UK.

Oct 26, 2016

By Shane Croucher

London Brexit UK Housing

'Hard Brexit' will worsen the construction skills shortage and drive house prices higher

CEBR says house price growth will slow amid Brexit uncertainty but warns on cutting EU immigration.

Oct 26, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Brexit UK Housing

Student accommodation award judges refuse to pick winner because rents are too high

No entrants meeting need of students to live in accommodation that will not force them into poverty, say judges.

Oct 25, 2016

By Shane Croucher

'A really positive picture for renters' as fewer landlords hike rents and supply rises

But Association of Residential Letting Agents says there are still too many landlords increasing rents.

Oct 24, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing Brexit

Home sales slump amid a lack of property on the market

HMRC figures show annual fall in the number of residential property transactions during September 2016.

Oct 21, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing Brexit

UK Housing: Most affordable places for first-time buyers, which has increased 10% since 2015

M&G Investments to resume trading in its property portfolio starting 4 November

Standard Life too lifted a similar temporary suspension last month.

Oct 21, 2016

By Kedar Grandhi

Property London tax haven British Virgin Islands

Sales of homes worth £1m or more crash under weight of stamp duty hikes

Land Registry figures show sharp fall between 2014 and 2016 in transactions of homes worth more than £1m.

Oct 20, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Brexit London

Mortgage lending reaches highest September figure in nine years, says CML

Council of Mortgage Lenders said lending rose 2% over the year as interest rate cuts fuels remortgaging.

Oct 20, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Brexit

Gavin Barwell housing minister Conservatives

Housing minister Gavin Barwell: Government must not obsess about home ownership

Barwell says all types of homes are needed, not just those for sale to first-time buyers.

Oct 19, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing

RBS chairman warns that major banks plan to shift from London to the eurozone

Brexit will drive bankers out and hurt the central London property market by reducing demand.

Oct 19, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Brexit London

Landlords are absorbing higher costs instead of hiking rents, says HomeLet

HomeLet index shows rents growing at their slowest pace all year during September.

Oct 14, 2016

By Shane Croucher

Send the build-to-rent sector 'into overdrive' by cutting tax and relaxing planning rules

British Property Federation calls on government to boost build-to-rent sector to ease housing crisis.

Oct 13, 2016

By Shane Croucher

UK Housing

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