Recent Articles in Buying and Selling Property Checklists

Rate rise – disaster scenario or ‘no impact’?
Nov 6, 2017

In reality, hardly anyone should be affected by the recent and next few interest rate rises planned. And they should certainly have far less impact than they have in the past.

BUT – and it’s a fairly big but – we don’t actually know how people will react to the rise...

Mayor of London calls for drastic government action in Budget on housing crisis
Oct 30, 2017

Numbers released on Friday by Sadiq Khan indicate that London must build 66,000 homes each year simply to meet the ever increasing need for places to live and to correct years of chronic underinvestment.

London property for a £7,500 deposit?
Oct 30, 2017

Property development company, Clarion, are opening a new development in Canning Town. At East City Point, buyers who would not usually be able to get on the Ladder in the capital can enter the market with a deposit of around £7,500 with share ownership opportunities.

Government seeks views on speeding up property buying and selling
Oct 23, 2017

Here we go again... the government has launched yet another consultation on the process of buying and selling a home, this time with the aim of making it “cheaper, faster and less stressful”. These are noble aims but I can’t help feeling we’ve been down this road many times before.

Kate's comprehensive property price update for October 2017 - data from the UK house price index
Oct 19, 2017

It's that time of the month again, how are property prices faring across the UK?