Got the gift of a new home or a buyer for yours at the bottom of a Christmas stocking? The good news is that Best Value Conveyancing’s team are standing by to help kickstart your essential conveyancing. Team standing by Best Value Conveyancing’s opening hours over the holidays are: Monday, …
There are more million-pound properties in the UK than ever before, according to new research. Lloyds Bank has revealed that the combined total of homes sold for more than £1 million in just four regions of England was 470 in the first six months of this year. That compares to …
Looking for the most affordable place in the country to buy a home? Head for Stoke-on-Trent because house prices there are within reach of those on average salaries. Research by comparethemarket.com has identified both the most expensive and the most affordable places in the UK. North-south divide apparent London, naturally, …
In just seven days time, every voter in the UK will be asked to put their X in the box beside their preferred candidate in the 2019 general election. The parties are on the election trail. The candidates are packed into hustings, taking questions on a wide variety of policies …
The one thing that most home buyers want when it comes to finding a new home is a garage. That’s the word that came top in the list of most-searched-for terms on Zoopla’s website in the last 12 months. Outdoor space was also popular with users of the property portal …
On the hunt for an affordable property? Check out the cheapest postcodes across the UK. Personal finance website Bankrate has come up with a tool that allows those seeking a new home to find the spot where they get the most bang for their buck. Their Space To Swing A …
Home buyers are happy to pay more for a property when it’s more eco-friendly. Landscape manufacturer Marshalls asked 2,000 UK homeowners what they were looking for in a new home. Two-thirds (68 percent) of those questioned said they wanted a more sustainable property. That could include one built using sustainable …
Home buyers are spending more than £5,000 on their new home in the first year of living there. Sainsbury’s Bank Home Insurance quizzed shoppers in its supermarkets on what they spent on a new home. Almost a third (29 percent) confessed they’d spent £5,000 or more on their property in …
Could the days of gazumping and gazundering in England’s property market be numbered? That’s the Government plan with the introduction of a trial on home reservation agreements. These would be legally binding agreements that would commit both buyer and seller to going through with a transaction. Could end gazumping for …
Stamp duty is a tax on mobility and aspiration and should be radically reformed. That’s the call in a report in an influential think-tank. The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) wants the Government either to abolish Stamp Duty Land Tax altogether or to raise the threshold at which buyers must …