The average price for larger detached homes has grown at almost twice the rate than for smaller properties such as flats three years since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Halifax has looked at data from its own House Price Index in the three years since when the property market was overhauled by the start of the pandemic in March 2020. One of its many impacts was to...
There has been a notable increase in the number of tenants being asked to provide a guarantor to secure a rental property, new research has revealed, as lack of supply and inflationary pressures push up average rental prices and landlords seek out additional assurances from tenants. Goodlord analysed more than 220,000 tenancies taken out between January 2020 and June 2023. Its...
Agents are preparing to return for a full week of work as the festive period comes to an end, but was there a Boxing Day listings boost? The idea of a wave of listings going live on Boxing Day is a marketing ploy mainly used by portals to encourage agents and sellers to list their homes when potential buyers may be bored of turkey sandwiches and Christmas crackers, so could...
An updated How to Rent Guide, a checklist for renting in England which must be issued by both letting agents and landlords to new tenants or those renewing, has been released by the government. It is crucial that agents issue the correct and current version of the How to Rent guide as a failure to do so before the tenants move in can invalidate a Section 21 notice used to regai...
