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Housing market

“Average rental cost breaks 2023 ‘ceiling’, rises to £1,470 – Goodlord”
Surely if you can afford to pay nearly £1,500 in rent, you can afford a mortgage? Well, yes,...
“Home Reit set to wind down in face of debts and FCA investigation”
Housing, particularly social housing, is a hot topic, a focus of the King’s Speech and a flagship...
“Reeves to bring back housebuilding targets”
Yes, this is all part of the plan for growth, growth, growth, but a big part of the pitch is to...
“Does it Still Pay to Be a Landlord in the UK?”
‘Should I buy-to-let?’ has been an oft-asked question in recent years, but not, it’s true, in...
“Triple Point Social Housing REIT eyes £20m portfolio sale”
Here’s a part of what’s gone wrong with to-the-nth-degree privatisation. What used to be council...
“Rental prices up 6.2% in 12 months to January – ONS”
The number of under-40s, in particular, renting without apparent hope of buying has risen by over...
“Rents up 9% in 2023 while voids hit historic lows – Goodlord”
Here’s the other side of the ‘housing crisis’. Rents are up by an above-inflation percentage,...
“‘Great news for homeowners’ as HSBC and TSB make further rate cuts”
This should be good news, not just for those getting a new mortgage but also for your investments....
“UK house prices see modest uptick in October but remain below last year’s levels”
Now here’s an area in which everyone is an expert and seems to know how to ‘time the market’....
“Stamp Duty hike expected to raise costs by £2.5k – Coventry Building Society”
We’ve just heard that house prices have suffered their biggest fall since 2009, when the effects...
“John Lewis foray into BTR could result in losses of £57m”
I did predict a while ago that Waitrose Homes rather than Waitrose Home Deliveries could be the...
“Should you fix your mortgage forever?”
In the US (and, randomly, Denmark) it’s the norm to fix-rate your mortgage for the life of your...
“Santander tightening buy-to-let affordability ‘disaster’ for market”
It’s not just spiralling interest rates which are affecting buy to lets. These have meant that...
“Fixed rate mortgage crunch could force over-55s back to work”
More of the Law of Unexpected Consequences. Apparently, over 400,000 over 50s have ‘left the...