Election uncertainty puts the brakes on housing market

Demand is at the lowest it’s been in a year Nearly two thirds (63%) of NAEA member agents have seen the housing market cooling in the run up to the General Election Less than a quarter (22%) of total house sales were made to FTBs, the lowest since July 2014 NAEA releases March Housing Market […]
Magic and mayhem (Conveyancer Slater – Tweet of the Week)

This week’s Conveyancer Slater is an international tweet comparing conveyancing to a form of magic. If this is an accurate description of conveyancing, we wonder who Professor Snape would be? Inter-department banter’s the new norm these days. Apparently our litigators coin the practice of conveyancing as the ‘dark arts’. — Leo Huang (@leohnz) April 30, […]
March Market Trend Data from Land Registry

The March data shows an annual price increase of 5.3 per cent which takes the average property value in England and Wales to £178,007 compared with the peak of £181,049 in November 2007. House prices are down 0.8 per cent since February. The regional data indicates that: London experienced the greatest increase in its average […]