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UK property

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Soaring costs squeeze landlords’ margins

    Ground rents, rates and insurance add to mortgage costs

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    UK house prices
    UK house prices rise at fastest pace since late 2022

    Mortgage approvals reach highest level since market was hit by Liz Truss’s mini-Budget

    Estate agent and letting signs in London, including those from Barnard Marcus, BTC Lettings & Management, and others. The signs display information about properties for sale and rent.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    Number of new homes being built in UK drops sharply

    Labour government is reforming planning rules in bid to boost housing supply over next five years

    A builder at work on the roof of a house
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK economy
    UK film studio developers to appeal against blocked Marlow project

    Group behind proposed £750mn scheme near Thameside town will ask for review of Bucks council decision

    An artist’s impression of the proposed studio
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    UK property market set for busy autumn as listings hit 7-year high

    For-sale stock of homes up 14% in August compared with year before as interest rate cut boosts activity

    An estate agents ‘For Sale’ sign outside a house in Brentwood, UK
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Mortgages
    Is the property market due a late summer surge?

    With mortgage rates being cut and buyer inquiries up, there’s renewed optimism in the housing market — but how long can it last?

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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    New Labour MP is biggest landlord in House of Commons

    Analysis of UK parliament’s register of interests raises concerns over potential opposition to rental reforms

    Jas Athwal is pictured during a visit to Box Up Crime gym in Ilford, Essex. He is wearing a light blue turban and a suit
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Buy-to-let
    London landlords leave the market in increasing numbers

    Buy-to-let property sales are on the rise

    Pedestrians walk past the front window of an estate agent
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    OutlookJoshua Oliver
    How this Yimby was taught a lesson

    I learnt the hard way: it is easy to support development in the abstract

    Builders erect scaffolding on a residential block of flats in Croydon
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    UK social housing
    UK chancellor plans to raise social rents to boost affordable housebuilding

    Move aims to give councils and housing associations more certainty over cash flows

    Row of five Council Tower blocks that run along side New John Street in Birmingham
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Prime property
    Hot property: five former homes of artists for sale

    From photographer Rankin’s London penthouse to the Côte d’Azur villa designed by Eileen Gray where painter Graham Sutherland lived

    A historic-looking stone building with classical architectural features, including tall windows and a columned entrance, situated next to a road with parked cars. The property is adjacent to a terraced garden filled with various plants and shrubs
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Property sector
    When will UK rental inflation slow down?

    It might be soon — but that would leave tenants on a painful plateau

  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    UK property market begins to recover faster than rest of Europe

    Dealmaking in commercial real estate sector starts to pick up in first half as prices edge higher

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  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Rental affordability in Britain at worst level in more than 7 years

    Tenants spend almost 30% of their incomes on housing, ONS data shows

    People looking in an estate agent’s window in Burnley
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    House & Home
    Could a handwritten letter help you buy a house — or convince you to sell?

    What is it about these missives that has such power? Hannah Shuckburgh is not the first person to have written a letter to try to convince someone to sell them their house — because it often works 

    An illustration of a small house nestled among lush greenery. A large, curling scroll of paper adorned with handwritten text flows out from a window of the small house
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    First-time buyers rely more heavily on Bank of Mum and Dad

    Higher mortgage rates made it more difficult to get on the property ladder

    Two people looking in the window of a estate agent
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Mortgages
    Reader callout: are you thinking about buying a home?

    FT Money wants to hear from readers as mortgage rates fall

  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Charles Goodhart
    Reeves has the best chance since Lloyd George of reforming property tax

    Once the challenge of transitioning to a tax on land value is overcome, other issues become much easier

    Residential homes in view of the London skyline at Denmark Hill, London
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    UK house prices
    UK rental price growth close to record high after decline stalls

    House price rises flat on annual basis, pointing to impact of high interest rates and low availability, ONS data shows

    Housing in London available for rent
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
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    UK housebuilder Bellway walks away from Crest Nicholson takeover bid

    Crest Nicholson shares plunge in latest blow to struggling developer

    Protective sheeting outside homes at a Bellway residential construction site in Cuffley, UK
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Private equity
    Blackstone sells 3,000 homes worth £405mn to UK’s biggest pension fund

    Deal for shared ownership homes is buyout group’s first sale from its growing UK residential portfolio

    Apartment balconies at the phase 2 building, left, and a phase 1 building at the Mast Quay riverside development in the Woolwich district of London,
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Property sector
    Landlord sales rise as financial pressures grow

    Speculation that Labour will align CGT with income tax rates

    Lettings signs in Maida Vale, London
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK property market to feel boost from rate cuts, estate agents say

    Rise in surveyors’ optimism comes as separate poll shows jobs sector has yet to strengthen

    A woman and her dog walks past an estate agents display
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Sophie Heawood
    I’m living the Primrose Hill dream. Err, what’s next? 

    Everyone has a fantasy of the place they’d like to live. But when you get there, can you ever stop wondering if this as good as it gets?

    A pastel-coloured row of houses in Primrose Hill, north London
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK housebuilding
    Labour faces tough task in winning community support for building boom

    Experts warn that public backing for development is essential in new government’s bid to end housing crisis

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