The most obvious challenge that comes with office relocation is disruption – as every office move inevitably causes upheaval and distraction from a company’s core business. In pre-COVID days, it was worse. You would probably have expected some machinations amongst colleagues as to who-sits-where-and-next-to-whom. Luckily, in an age of working Read More ->
Data from Rightmove has shown an unexpected strong start to Spring for sellers. Not only is it a strong start, but the conditions of the market make it the best seller’s market in the past 10 years. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, with the country being in and out of Read More ->
The government are set to roll out a new help to buy scheme in April 2021, allowing first time buyers to get onto the property ladder with only a 5% deposit with an added 20% (or 40% if you’re in London) from the government. But there is less knowledge of Read More ->
House prices and what is going to happen them post-Covid has been one of the biggest questions in everyone’s mind. New forecasts show the average property price is set to increase by £10,000 throughout 2021, with some areas set to have a price growth of almost 30% over the next Read More ->
According to build-to-rent experts Ascend Properties, the build-to-rent sector in the UK has increased 135%, with it now making up 1% of all rental properties in this country. The build-to-rent sector has been around for a number of years, but it has never seen growth quite like this… Past vs Read More ->
HMRC figures for the 2018 to 2019 tax year showed stamp duty fell by £1 billion when compared to the previous year. Experts have blamed that partly on a decline in buy-to-let investments and the fact that most first-time buyers no longer need to pay stamp duty. In 2016, George Read More ->
With the ‘Stamp Duty Holiday’ putting all the attention on the house buying market, there’s been less attention on what’s happening in the rental market. What effect has lockdown had on the rental market? Are people trying to escape renting in the cities? What’s happening to rental prices? Are they Read More ->
“The total value of all global real estate is estimated at $228tn, with the value of the investable stock of commercial property owned by institutional investors around the world is estimated at around $35tr”, according to the latest research paper published by Pi Labs. Regarding surfaces, there are over 1.2 Read More ->
With the deadline for the Stamp Duty holiday looming, speculation turns to what will happen to house prices. Are they going to drop? Will they stay the same, or maybe even go up? Is demand in the housing market going to fall? The ‘Stamp Duty Holiday’ was introduced on 8th Read More ->
Recently the government has pledged to invest £12.2 billion into increasing affordable housing across the UK. One of its main outcomes will be to introduce a new shared ownership model to help more first time buyers onto the property ladder. Question is, what is shared ownership and is it any Read More ->
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