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NAEA Propertymark has responded to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s consultation into Redress for purchasers of new build homes and the New Homes Ombudsman.
New research into ‘traditional’ leasehold retirement housing shows that recently built properties, on average, increase their value upon resale.
Chancellor Sajid Javid has announced new investment of over £600 million for infrastructure projects to support the building of 50,000 new homes.
House prices in Northern Ireland are showing a continued annual growth of 3.5% compared to the same period last year as according to the recent report released by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
House prices have fallen across all three regions of the South of England for the first time since 2009, the latest report from the Office of National Statistics shows.
Recent articles released worldwide, and GDPR legislation throughout Europe, have highlighted the fact that today’s printers should be treated no differently than any other IT peripheral.
Proving your identity online is often time consuming and repetitive. A Government consultation is asking for your views on developing a secure and reusable digital identification service, to make processes such as reference checking easier and more reliable.
Intermediaries say interest only mortgages comprised 20 per cent of new business introduced in the second quarter of 2019, down from a 2007 peak of 28 percent, but significantly higher than five years ago. Repayment mortgages made up almost all the remaining proportion of new business in that time.
An annual HomeOwners’ Alliance consumer survey on housing concerns suggests that estate agent fees place low on the list behind house prices, housing availability and mortgage availability.
Despite a marginal drop in prospective buyers in June, and a house price plummet in London, the housing market shows signs of resilience.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has secured an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) on a Northern Irish woman with suspected links to serious organised crime.
Fewer than a third of landlords would add to their buy-to-let portfolio over the next 12 months, research claims.
We're one year in and complaints to the regulators are nearing 200,000 and reported breaches are over 85,000. Are we all still being successful in protecting the data of your applicants and vendors?
New figures show that Australia is top of the table when it comes to owning property in Scotland.
Following a recent tribunal where an agency was not signed up to a redress scheme for its property management work, only its letting agency work, all estate and letting agents are being urged to check they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers the full remit of their work.
The May house price index has again shown the average house price in Scotland has increased compared to the same month last year and has also increased each month since May 2016.
Today, Thursday 18 July 2019, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) released a report on the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group (RoPA) proposing a new regulatory framework to cover estate agents across the UK and letting and managing agents in England only.
A Task and Finish Group, which included participation from NAEA Propertymark, has released its report on Residential Leasehold Reform.
Nominations are in full swing for the 2019 awards and Propertymark spoke to last year’s winners to hear what they’ve achieved since receiving their much-coveted award.
David Ware, founder of the Ware & Co estate agent, based in Taunton, sadly passed away on 23 June aged 74.
Mark Hayward appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning talking to Business reporter Steph McGovern about leasehold.
Thanks to a £10 million innovation fund, customers could take advantage of discounted mortgages and save money on energy bills and emissions by upgrading the energy rating of their home.
In a wide-ranging speech to the Chartered Institute of Housing conference in Manchester, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP confirmed plans to abolish the selling of new houses in England as leasehold and reduce ground rents for new leases to zero – putting cash back into the pockets of future homeowners.
Following the NAEA Propertymark’s call that purchasers of new build homes should have access to an ombudsman scheme, the UK Government has launched a consultation on the New Homes Ombudsman.
A parliamentary Bill has been introduced which plans to see ground rents capped and over 100,000 trapped leaseholders enabled to sell their homes.
The Public Accounts Committee’s recent Planning and the Broken Housing Market report acknowledges the UK Government’s ambitious target of delivering 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s, but says it has little chance of being achieved.
The awards, for learners in the property sector, are the chance to celebrate colleagues or employers you believe deserve recognition.
Following the last update in 2017, the UK Government has announced updates to the Safeguarding Directions (safeguarded zone) and zoned property schemes for the Phase 2b section of the route.
The Government worked with leading industry partners to develop free courses to help all businesses understand online threats and how to protect business data, money and reputation.
How well do you know the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations 2017? With the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering directive coming into force on 10 January 2020, are there any gaps in your knowledge and are you working within the law so far? You could face penalties of huge fines or even a prison sentence if you fail to comply.