See what stories from the property world catch the eye of our own award-winning journalist, Graham Norwood.
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Should commercial properties be converted into homes? I think so. I don’t mean the upscale barns becoming large houses, or the fashionable churches converted to apartments. I mean large scale redundant offices or factories or schools becoming ‘ordinary’ flats and ...
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If journalists believed everything they received in their inboxes, you’d be forgiven for thinking the private rental sector was a shiny, classless tenure enjoyed by the well-to-do and families as much as by the less well-off singletons. Build To Rent ...
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New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one hand there’s unanimity - just about everyone predicts price falls - but the scale of the drops varies ...
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Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we know then, that we were just weeks away from revelations of parties in Downing Street; that we were ...
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Here at Angels Media towers, we’re always keen to get the biggest names in the business on board for interviews. And that is certainly the case for Charlie Bryant, CEO of Zoopla since 2017 and before that CEO of Hometrack. ...
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I’ve just read an article saying that this is the time of the online estate agency. The time in question is, of course, the cost of living crisis: we are familiar with the headlines of a predicted 7.1 per cent ...
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Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market – from possible price falls to a reduction in Capital Gains Tax and an eventual reversal of stamp duty ...
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I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500 followers - a gratifying number and of those a couple of hundred are ‘blue ticks’. For the uninitiated (there can’t be many these days) blue ticks verify the apparent fame ...
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In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end of the government's Help to Buy scheme. Monday marked the end of the government’s Help to Buy equity loan ...
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And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister is the solution to all our problems - far from it. But suddenly ...
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With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA increasing their influence in the UK property market day by day, EAT & LAT sought the thoughts of Maria ...
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How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation where the industry and public alike now fear for prices, affordability and the very real threat of mortgage default ...
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First-time buyers and homeowners seeking to sell alike are worried and confused about the current state of the housing market. With the average five-year mortgage rate hitting a 12-year high in light of the panic caused by the mini-Budget, and financial pressures from the ...
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Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and perks: quite a few people would be in line for those if the recent Tory leadership race is ...
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One of the particular characteristics of the property market is how it brings contrasting professions together. From estate agents to conveyancers, mortgage brokers to lenders, and surveyors too. Very different professions that need to collaborate, and to work efficiently together ...
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The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it has much else. The near-constant sniping at landlords and letting agents by pressure groups has stopped, for a short ...
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First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining health, it still came as a massive shock and she will be much missed. I don't think I can ...
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Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on supply for long term renting in many local housing markets has become painfully clear. The real answer, of ...
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In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the home buying and selling machine - mortgage advising. James Miles is a Director and Mortgage Adviser at The Mortgage ...
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We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a small-to-non-existent part in policy debate. When it has been mentioned it’s been treated with the customary glib terminology of ...
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