Kate Faulkner OBE: How will Trump’s tariffs affect the property market?
It’s been a roller coaster ride of reporting over the last few weeks since Trump announced he was going to increase tariffs on goods into America from 10% through to Vietnam: 46%. The tariffs didn’t seem to have huge amounts of logic behind them, with Russia not being targeted whereas Tawain, a supposed ally of […]
‘Millions in limbo over mortgage rates’ with first-time buyers the most pessimistic
Data from the HomeOwners Alliance reveals ‘deep uncertainty’ about the future of mortgage rates, with 37% of people polled expecting rates to go up within the next year. In the survey of 2000 adults, 25% said they believed rates would hold, 16% thought they would fall, and 22% said they didn’t know what would happen. […]
New tech partnership gives conveyancers full coverage of UK planning data
A new partnership between environmental search platform Martello and AI tech specialists Serac Group will give users access to planning data from all local authorities in the UK, including those typically difficult to access. The partnership will incorporate Serac’s IBex market data, which includes full coverage of UK planning data and ‘an extensive historical dataset’, […]
Rayner ‘threatened to quit over homes target’, says Starmer biographer
Tory peer Lord Ashcroft has claimed Angela Rayner threatened to quit over Labour’s ‘impossible’ 1.5 million homes target and was persuaded to stay by Sir Tony Blair. The claims, made in the updated edition of Sir Kier Starmer’s biography Red Flag, authored by Lord Ashcroft, have been denied by the deputy prime minister. In the […]