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Scotland urged to follow suit in extending stamp duty holiday
Scotland should follow Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s lead and extend the stamp duty holiday, said David Alexander, joint chief executive of UK-wide... Read more
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Welsh landlords will have to give six months’ notice to tenants from next year
Landlords in Wales will have to provide their tenants with six months’ notice from Spring 2022 in the case of ‘no fault evictions’, following... Read more
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SDL: Auctions a viable way of beating the stamp duty deadline
With news that the stamp duty holiday is likely to be extended until the end of June, SDL Property Auctions managing director Andrew Parker said one... Read more
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Virgin and Clydesdale mortgage business development team launches
Virgin Money has launched a business development team to provide brokers with a single point of contact for both Virgin Money and Clydesdale... Read more
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FCA issues vulnerable customers guidance
The FCA has issued guidance on how firms should treat vulnerable customers.
In a PDF entitled ‘Guidance for firms on the fair treatment of... Read more
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Three in five multi-property landlords take advantage of stamp duty holiday
As many as three in five (60%) multi-property landlords have expanded their property portfolio since the introduction of the stamp duty holiday in... Read more
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Older homeowners typically gift £42.5k to young buyers
Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them get on or move up the property ladder in 2020, research from Key... Read more
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Housing activity cools in January
The number of properties changing hands dampened down in January, government research shows.
There were 121,640 transactions in January 2021, 2.4%... Read more
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SO Resi unveils shared ownership sales agency
SO Resi has launched a shared ownership sales agency for external parties like housing associations, local authority housing providers, investment... Read more
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Estate agents back end of lockdown
Representatives from estate agents have backed the government’s plan to slowly end the lockdown.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled a... Read more
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Property transactions jump 27% in one month
The number of property transactions registered in England and Wales jumped 27% between November and December 2020, the Conveyancing Market Tracker... Read more
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Virgin Money makes rate cuts
Virgin Money has unveiled rate reductions across residential and shared ownership mortgages.
The lender’s 65% LTV 5-year fee saver product has... Read more
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Metro Bank unveils SME insurance offering via Churchill Expert
Metro Bank has partnered with Churchill Expert, part of the Direct Line Group, to offer insurance products tailored to SMEs.
There are seven... Read more
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Value of landlord portfolios rises by £38,820 despite difficult year
Typical house prices increased by 8.6% over the course of 2020, meaning landlords saw their portfolios inflate in value by £38,820, research from... Read more
Why the self-employed, contractors and freelancers need brokers more than anyone
Nudim Akhtar is a Mortgage Specialist at broker Contractor Mortgages Direct
As brokers we spend... Read more
An estate agent’s marketing guide to lead generation
Raj Dosanjh is co-founder of Rentround
Your estate agency's marketing efforts are not just for... Read more
How the COVID-19 pandemic will transform developer designs to meet new buyer expectations
Bruce Burkitt, founder & managing director at Property Experts
Following a year that saw a... Read more
The importance of off-market sales
Jennifer Campbell is head of estate agency in DM Hall Baird Lumsden, the specialist rural... Read more
Are Property Bonds the future of property investing?
John Fahey is a property bond specialist with HE Global Investments
They’re flexible, short... Read more
How commercial landlords and tenants are using data-driven strategies to navigate COVID
Colin O’Reilly, sales director for investor solutions at MRI Software
It has become clear in... Read more
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