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Rent and run? Agents warn of new 'Stopover Tenant' epidemic

Nearly 1 in 3 letting agents report tenants walking away from 6–12 month tenancies - some after just a few months
Experts warn rental reforms are fueling relocation-style, short-term renting
Almost half of agents now advising landlords on how to manage early exits

A new trend is sweeping the rental market and it's leaving landlords...

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Water Neutrality – problems and solutions

Across the country, there is a growing awareness of the concept of achieving water neutrality. In certain areas this is creating a significant barrier to the delivery of new development. Specifically in parts of Chichester, Horsham and Crawley, concerns from Natural England that groundwater abstraction may be having an adverse impact on the Arun Valley SPA , SAC and Ramsar Sites is preventing...

Five of the biggest homebuyer turn-offs and what they could cost you

Estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester , has revealed the five biggest homebuyer turn-offs and how much money each of them can remove from a home’s market value.

Bad/nuisance neighbours

For most people, living next-door to nuisance neighbours is a worst case scenario. Sometimes they make loud noises long into the night; sometimes they’re constantly in the garden...

Getting mortgage-ready

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events , has released a number of top tips to help the nation’s homebuyers, and first-time buyers in particular, when it comes to getting mortgage ready ahead of a potential purchase.

Stipendiums has broken down the homebuying process into 12 essential steps via their first product release, Merge , and will be releasing a series...

Dandara East Scotland launches first Island showhomes

Scottish housebuilder Dandara is unveiling the first showhomes from its new Island collection of homes in Shawfair and Eskbank near Edinburgh on Saturday 23rd of April.

Designed to reflect the changing needs of today’s buyers, the four-bedroom Iona home at Shawfair and the five-bedroom Canna at Eskbank Gardens will be open to view from 11am-5pm on the opening weekend.

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Average FTB deposit soars in the last five years

Average FTB deposit cost soars in the last five years

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events such as home moving, has revealed that the average cost of a mortgage deposit on a first home has climbed by 54% in the last decade, pushing homeownership further out of reach for the nation’s first-time buyers.

Stipendium analysed the current cost facing...

Help to Buy on the decline, but will housebuilders miss it?

The latest research by the new-build sales optimisation platform, Unlatch , has revealed that the impact of the Help to Buy scheme within the new-build sector has been in slow decline, despite Help to Buy transactions still accounting for a sizable proportion of homes delivered by the nation’s three biggest housebuilders.

Launched in 2013, Help to Buy has been helping homebuyers onto...

London’s most expensive rental homes

London rental platform, Rentd , has revealed that while the average London tenant will pay £1,574 per month, the average cost of residing at the very top of the capital’s rental market comes in at a huge £23,839 - a 1415% rental price premium.

Rentd looked at the average cost of renting in each London borough before comparing this to the most expensive rental listing currently...

AML within the property industry: Why The Two Tier Approach?

Each year there are over 1.5 million homes listed for sale in the UK and the potential sellers of each all require anti-money laundering checks - often there’s more than one check per property in the case of joint ownership.

Since June 2017 property buyers, at the point that an offer is accepted, are required to provide identification for the purposes of the agent carrying out such...

Dandara Easter bunny brings eggcellent gifts to local primary school

This Easter, Dandara Southern, who is building new homes at its Paddock View development in Yapton, East Sussex, is continuing its partnership with Yapton CofE Primary School by having an Easter bunny visit the school to spread Easter cheer and hand out Easter eggs.

To celebrate the Easter holiday, Dandara enlisted the help of their very own Easter bunny, who goes by the name Jonny...

Fast Forward Moving To One Of The Final New Homes in Loggerheads

SELLERS could be just 24 hours away from becoming buyers and securing one of the final new homes in the Staffordshire village of Loggerheads.

Elan Homes is offering a lifeline to those who perhaps fear they will miss out on a move to the popular Brook Meadow development because they have a house to sell.

With the homebuilder’s EasyMove service they won’t have to worry about...

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