UK house prices: Experts warn of ‘volatile’ UK housing market after sharp April growth May 8, 2019 Experts today warned that volatility is affecting the UK housing market as Halifax recorded a sharp annual jump in house prices in April. Read more: UK house prices suffer fifth month of Brexit-hit growth UK homes are now worth an average £236,619 following the stark five per cent rise for the three months to April, [...]
UK house prices: Experts warn of ‘volatile’ UK housing market after sharp April growth May 8, 2019 Experts today warned that volatility is affecting the UK housing market as Halifax recorded a sharp annual jump in house prices in April. Read more: UK house prices suffer fifth month of Brexit-hit growth UK homes are now worth an average £236,619 following the stark five per cent rise for the three months to April, [...]
London markets brace for another week of Omicron volatility December 5, 2021 London markets are set for another whipsawing week driven by investors responding sharply to any news on the Omicron variant. The capital’s premier FTSE 100 index was extremely volatile last week, fluctuating between good and bad days. The blue-chip index ultimately finished the week higher, but failed to cancel out all of the losses registered [...]
Poll: UK house prices won’t match low inflation until 2021 November 20, 2019 UK house prices will not match low inflation until 2021 and are set to fall in London this year as buyers are put off by continuing Brexit uncertainty, according to new research. House prices in the capital will fall 1.5 per cent this year and only hold steady in 2020, a poll by Reuters found. [...]
Housebuilder Bellway makes record land investment as house prices rocket June 15, 2021 Bellway has made a record investment in land since last August, a move that could pay off handsomely in the future with the recent rise in house prices. The housebuilder has contracted to acquire some 15,982 plots since 1 August 2020, up from 10,079 plots in its 2020 financial year, and 10,620 in 2019. Bellway [...]
Estate agents urge government to extend coronavirus support March 22, 2020 Estate agents have urged the government to protect the industry as house viewings drop and sales activity slows due to coronavirus. The sector has called for the government to extend the business rates holiday, which applies to retail and hospitality firms, to estate agent companies. The UK’s housing market looked set to bounce back this [...]
The Divine Madman of Bhutan and his legacy of many penises December 4, 2023 I knew two things about Bhutan before landing: there are no traffic lights in the entire country, and happiness comes before anything else. I had no idea that some of the buildings have penises. Bhutan is a mysterious, historically-hermitted nation high in the Himalayas, which, thanks to geographic and governmental hurdles remains one of the least [...]
First-time buyers to borrow more and for longer this year as wage growth will fail to keep pace January 1, 2022 First-time buyers face the biggest financial hurdle to homeownership causing them to borrow more in 2022. However, it is existing homebuyers that are now more stretched when it comes to their earnings and the amount they are required to borrow. Analysing 2021 data from the Office for National Statistics, shared with City A.M. by estate [...]
‘PE to PE’ deals soar as firms rush to offload $2.3 trillion post-pandemic dry powder October 4, 2021 Private equity to private equity deals, whereby groups sell UK companies to each other, have jumped by 44 per cent in the past year, as firms rush to please investors and deploy capital accumulated during the coronavirus crisis. The number of so-called “PE to PE” deals increased by 44 per cent to 85 in the [...]
UK coronavirus: Government warns Brits not to move house March 27, 2020 The government has told people not to move house amid the UK coronavirus crisis as the housing market enters a standstill. Last night the government said: “We urge parties involved in home moving to adapt and be flexible to alter their usual processes. “There is no need to pull out of transactions, but we all [...]