A daily roundup of all the key property news.Detached homes in London fell in value by more than £50,000 in a year, according to official figures, driving the slowdown in UK house price growth. Typically, this type of property cost £903,088 in May last year, but fell by 6.1% to £847,998 by this May, Land Registry figures show.
Julie James AM, Minister for Housing and Local Government has launched a consultation asking for views on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section 173 notice from two to six months.The Welsh Government’s intention to do this was first announced by Julie James in a speech she gave to Shelter Cymru’s Conference in Swansea on 4 July 2019.
Plymouth is on the rise with a number of multi-million pound regeneration schemes to be completed over the next few years. It shows a high degree of confidence in the city, augmenting an already high quality of life in the wider South West region.
A daily roundup of all the key property news. A group of MPs have warned that hundreds of thousands of pensioners could be forced out of their homes in the future due to soaring rents. The all-party parliamentary group on housing and care for older people said there could be 1.5m pensioners in the private rented sector in the next two decades, many of whom will struggle to pay rising costs.
A daily roundup of all the key property news.The Regulation of Property Agents working party (ROPA) has recommended that property agency representatives should hold a formal qualification to do the job. ROPA advised Housing Minister Heather Wheeler that qualified agents would then be licenced as the only people able to conduct core selling or letting activities
Legionella is a bacteria which lives and breeds in water systems – both running and stagnant (ie swimming pools and hot tubs.) There are over 50 different types of which 19 have been found to cause ill health. Many different diseases can be caused, with Legionnaires’ disease being the most well-known. The 3 key factors to bacterial growth are temperature, nutrients and time. By removing one or more of these factors we can reduce the risk of contracting the disease.
Elsewhere on this website we bang on about how gaining PR coverage feeds SEO.What’s SEO? It means ‘search engine optimisation’ and is the thing that determines where your website ranks in search pages according to Google.
A daily roundup of all the key property news.The average house price in the UK was just over £650 less this month compared with June - the first fall this year. The figure now stands at £308,692, according to Rightmove.
In a recent Designated Professional Body audit, Nettleship Sawyer has been rated outstanding in its quality of compliance with stringent RICS DPB standards for buildings insurance procedures.
Its often said that the English language is all about learning you’re A, B & C’s, whilst minding your P’s & Q’s! Auctioneer Kevin Gilbert has progressed a little further putting various letters together to form some of his favourite words…’going, going, gone!’. The sellers of the former St Christopher’s School in Canterbury are hoping to hear those mortal words for themselves
A daily roundup of all the key property news.The UK holiday home market is enjoying a boom, as property owners are again investing in a second home. While Cumbria, Cornwall and Dorset are the most profitable places to own a holiday let, according to the Staycation Index from Sykes Holiday Cottages, city locations such as Bath, Oxford and Cambridge are also in demand.
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