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Relocation Made Easy: The Smarter Side of Property Moves

Moving home is often described as stressful, but with the right strategy, it can become a smooth and even empowering part of the property journey. Whether you are upsizing, downsizing or relocating for a fresh start, smart planning and modern tools can transform the experience. Property moves today are no longer just about packing boxes. They are about making informed choices, protecting your...

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London's cycle route properties command hefty premium

Pandemic causes Londoners to get on their bikes, but cycle route property prices carry hefty premium

Research by game-changing property platform, Boomin , has revealed that the cost of buying along one of the capital’s main cycle routes into the city is as much as £102,204 higher than the wider surrounding area, while some tenants are paying up to £619 more per month in rent.

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Seaside towns post strongest pandemic house price performance

Research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has found that when it comes to house price appreciation, seaside towns are outperforming the rest of the market both on an annual basis and throughout the pandemic.

GetAgent analysed house price data across 60 UK towns that fall within six distinctive categories - seaside, new, market, historic, university and manufacturing...

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...

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