London house prices: Galliard is about to launch homes just for first-time buyers – and expects queues and “rapid sales” April 25, 2016 We all know how tough it is for first-time buyers to get a foot on the ladder, with recent estimates suggesting Londoners would need a six-figure salary to buy a home by 2020. So perhaps Galliard Homes is right to predict "queues and rapid sales" for its latest scheme The Landmark, which is being touted [...]
Focus On Forest Hill: Meet the up-and-coming part of south east London that’s been dubbed the “new nappy valley” November 16, 2017 Like a lot of south east London, Forest Hill likes to keep a low profile – lest anyone find out just how good it is. But as the affordability crisis forces more and more Londoners to search the nooks and crannies of the capital for decent housing, many of them have alighted upon this useful [...]
London house prices continue to fall as capital sees UK’s sharpest drop June 14, 2018 London’s house prices have continued to fall in May, with the capital seeing the UK's biggest decline, according to surveyors. A highly-regarded survey published this morning also revealed that London is the only region where prices are expected to fall further over the next year. The report, published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors [...]
Housebuilders have become hooked on the government’s help to buy scheme August 7, 2017 Have we witnessed the beginning of the end of help to buy? Shares in UK housebuilders plummeted at the end of last week after reports suggested the government has asked the London School of Economics (LSE) to review the scheme’s efficacy. It is arguable the scheme, whose first iteration was launched in April 2013, is [...]
Is it cheaper to live in the Home Counties than London? May 25, 2018 Buyers are often surprised when they discover how much more affordable the council taxes in London are in comparison to what they are paying to live within commuting distance of the Capital. Last month saw these costs increase across the country. On top of this, rail fare rises continue to outstrip wage growth, so the [...]
Autumn Budget 2017: Chancellor Philip Hammond’s speech in full November 22, 2017 You can read the chancellor's Budget speech in full here: Mr Deputy Speaker I report today on an economy that continues to grow, continues to create more jobs than ever before and continues to confound those who seek to talk it down. An economy set on a path to a new relationship with our European [...]
Look to the green belt: Paper calls for radical changes to land near train stations in bid to solve housing crisis September 10, 2018 Freeing up green belt land near train stations could pave the way for the construction of 1.5m new houses, according to a report which seeks to tackle London’s chronic shortage of affordable housing. Radical proposals that call on the government to loosen development restrictions around green belt areas within a half-mile radius of train stations have been [...]
UK house prices: Sales to first-time buyers pause in February despite year-on-year rise March 31, 2016 The number of first-time home buyers rose by seven per cent in the year to February despite a slight drop in activity since the start of the year, new data today shows. First time buyer sales stood at 21,000 last month, which was 6.6 per cent ahead of February 2015’s figure of 19,800, according to Your [...]
UK house prices: First-time buyers force growth surge as buy-to-let investment tails off April 6, 2016 Buy-to-let purchases might be tailing off – but the number of first-time buyers in the UK property market has surged, pushing prices up as demand intensifies. Figures out from estate agents Haart this morning showed that while average house prices climbed 4.1 per cent in the year to February 2016, the average first-time buyer house price jumped 9.8 per [...]
Why are Premier League clubs being paid in Bitcoin for their commercial deals with trading platform eToro? August 23, 2018 If 2018 has been the year of football dipping its toe into the world of cryptocurrency, then this week saw some teams go a little deeper into uncharted waters. On Tuesday, seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham and Crystal Palace announced that they had signed commercial partnerships with investment platform eToro. What made these deals [...]