Homes are selling at the fastest pace ever recorded right now, which is pushing up average asking prices for properties. Wednesday 7th April saw a record of 9.3 million visits to Rightmove in a single day, while last month home-hunters spent more than two billion minutes on the site. More houses have sold within the […]

The stamp-duty stampede to buy second homes led to £17 billion of house sales across the UK over the last two weeks – £5.4 billion of which were in London. Around £3.4 billion of properties were exchanged yesterday alone, a 141 per cent increase on the same day last year, as solicitors cancelled holidays and […]

The low deposit lending market may finally be opening up after the pandemic hammered it a year ag When Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans for a mortgage guarantee scheme in last month’s Budget it was hailed as a lifeline for first-time buyers. Some of the biggest banks in the UK have already signed up to the scheme, which […]