Housing White Paper: Professional Opinion

Described as helping the “homeowners of tomorrow”, the recently released Housing White Paper outlines the government’s long-term plan to deal with the UK’s housing crisis.

HMRC December property transaction data

Revealing the monthly estimated figures for both residential and non-residential property transactions, HMRC property statistics for December 2016 have recently been released.

Industry reacts to vote to leave the EU

The value of the pound as well as shares in the UK’s major house builders are in freefall after the UK voted to leave the European Union. While Prime Minister David Cameron has stated Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which starts the two year countdown on leaving, won’t be triggered until at least October, […]

Mortgage approvals up nearly 15% year on year for March – BoE

More than 135,000 mortgages were approved last month, up 14.5% on March 2015 according to statistics released by the Bank of England today. In total, 135,443 loans secured against dwellings were approved, 17,182 ahead of March 2015. Comparing the first three months of this year to last year, there have been 21% more loan approvals […]