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Nobody wants to operate on themselves and few would conduct their own divorce and yet almost everyone thinks that when it comes to finding a new home they are the best people to search for one, fall in love with it, evaluate it and then negotiate the best deal. TheContinue Reading
BBC ‘home’ page.
If you want to keep up to date with the latest house price forecast, the latest stats on prices, rents or how to deal with an unaffordable mortgage then the BBC has it’s own ‘home’ page. Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cdl8n2edgj5t Now you know where we get our news ticker at theContinue Reading
House prices record biggest annual drop since 2009
UK house prices have recorded the largest annual drop in 14 years reports the FT as rising mortgage costs pile pressure on the property market, according to data today from Nationwide. Prices for July fell 0.2% on the previous month and by 3.8% compared with the same month last year,Continue Reading
It’s not all bad news (although much of it is).
If you read the headlines you’d think we were going to hell in a handcart! Stubborn inflation means rising interest rates leading to some serious pain for the 800,000 borrowers coming off 2 and 5 year fixed rate mortgages in the next 6 months. The Office for National Statistics todayContinue Reading
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Should we encourage downsizing?
A trip to Wogan house to chat to Jeremy Vine about the merits of encouraging older people to move somewhere smaller and perhaps more suitable and free up their larger home for someone else to move into. Kirstie Allsopp had mentioned the idea earlier in the week. My chat withContinue Reading
“House prices plunged 3.1% in the year to March 2023”
The monthly house price updates have landed provoking some discussion & some alarming headlines. UK house prices fell more than expected and by the most since 2009 in March, according to data from mortgage provider Nationwide reports the Financial Times. House prices fell by an annual rate of 3.1 perContinue Reading