First-Time Buyer Figures Highest For Twelve Years
First time buyers with mortgages now account for 50% of house purchases, the highest level since 2006, before the financial crisis. The First Time Buyers 2018 report released by Yorkshire Building Society reveals that 367,038 mortgages were taken up by first time buyers last year, double that of 2008 and a slight increase on the […]
New Research Confirms House Building Is At A 70-Year Low
Figures released by leading think tank the Centre for Policy Studies have revealed that the number of new houses built in the decade beginning January 2010 is set to be the lowest since the Second World War. In the 1950s house building took off as a huge post-war effort was made to increase housing stock. […]