What makes a Nimby a Nimby when it comes to housing? April 11, 2024 We can predict how people will vote, so why not analyse the data on what makes an area more or less likely to welcome new development? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest indicator is house prices, but some of the other results are unexpected…. Kieran Kumaria explains Everyone involved in planning has seen this movie before. Councillors [...]
Bank of friends and family: First-time buyers more reliant on help to get on housing ladder April 8, 2024 Between April 2022 and March 2023, 36 per cent of recent first-time buyers - resident for less than three years - used gifts from family and friends to help buy a home, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud: Big builders are artificially driving up house prices for profit April 7, 2024 Most of the issues in the market can be traced back to the big builders that dominate the sector, TV presenter Kevin McCloud, told Morning Wire
Are house prices going to fall? Is this the end of buy-to-let? What’s going on in the housing market? April 7, 2024 The UK property market confounded expectations last year, only falling by two per cent. With rate cults looking likely, will it rally again?
House prices fall in March as market continues rates-driven seesaw April 2, 2024 The annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6 per cent in March, from 1.2 per cent in February.
Safe as houses: is it time to introduce a wealth tax? March 30, 2024 Wages in the UK have flatlined since the financial crisis of 2008. Yet in that time, the country’s richest 1000 families have seen the value of their assets triple. Should we think more seriously—and progressively—about the way we tax wealth?
House prices show stability despite higher interest rates, but rents continue to surge March 20, 2024 The average price of a home was £2,000 cheaper in January when compared to the exact same period the year before, according to new government figures.
London is crying out for more homes –here’s how the next mayor can build them March 5, 2024 It will take a young couple on a normal income 30 years to save a deposit to buy the average property in London, but there is a way to change that, writes Sam Richards London is in a housing crisis. The boom the city has experienced over the past three decades has seen the number [...]
Look inside Manchester’s £300m new rental project using tech to match up young professionals March 1, 2024 Take a look inside the UK’s first rent-by-the-room apartment building which has just opened in Manchester.
Why the ‘mood music’ surrounding the housing market outside London has changed February 27, 2024 An influx of new residents into Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow helped the housing market remain resilient during 2023, according to a new report.