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Rental price growth slows in most of UK with landlords reluctant to push them up
Rents in the UK are not surging ahead as some had predicted with the latest lettings index showing that they rose by an average of just 0.8% in February compared to the same month in 2016. This marks a considerable decline in the pace of rental appreciation which was 4.7% in June last year and […] The post Rental price growth slows in most of UK with landlords reluctant to push them up appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Call for UK stamp duty to be changed in upcoming Budget
Stamp duty is prohibiting first time buyers in the UK and should be altered in the Budget later this month, preferably to make sellers pay the tax rather than buyers, a new report suggests. According to the Yorkshire Building Society report the latest figures show that in 2016 just 26% of first time buyers bought […] The post Call for UK stamp duty to be changed in upcoming Budget appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
UK property prices keep edging upwards, latest index shows
Property prices in the UK continued to push upwards in February with a rise of 0.6% month on month taking the average price to £205,846. The index date from lender the Nationwide also shows that year on year house price growth has increased by 4.5% and more households in England own their property outright than […] The post UK property prices keep edging upwards, latest index shows appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →