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Readers split on how to tackle the UK’s housing divide - THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Readers are torn on whether older homeowners ...
The figures were released as Nationwide Building Society reported the annual rate of house price growth slowed to 3.4 per ...
While housing prices are expected to be softer in the near future, buying activity is likely to pick up pace as summer ...
The slowdown in the market was expected due to the lowering of thresholds at which buyers need to start paying stamp duty.
Property market data shows houses have experienced a 3.4% price increase during the past twelve months while demonstrating ...
Lower stamp duty thresholds introduced at the start of the month are being widely blamed for the biggest monthly decline in ...
House sales soared 104% compared with the same month a year earlier, according to HM Revenue and Customs figures.
The high-street bank on Thursday said it lent to 20,000 first-time buyers in the first three months of the year, and sold a ...
The replacement of the UK’s paper-based stamp duty (SD), and its electronic cousin stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT), with a unified and modernised ...
Net mortgage borrowing levels exceeded £13bn but mortgage approvals dipped for the third straight month, according to the ...
Prices fell 0.6 per cent month-on-month in April, below the zero growth forecasted by economists polled by LSEG, taking the average house price to £270,752, data showed on Wednesday. This was the ...