KEYWORD "Affordability" - 135 RESULTS
Property predictions – what could happen to the housing market in 2020?
Now that 2020 is underway, activity in the property market is likely to start picking up due to the traditional seasonal...
Properties in Nuneaton and Bedworth, Stockport and Leicester show significant potential for capital growth after seeing double-digit house price growth in...
First-time buyers – do you know the best areas to buy new?
Despite stretched affordability in most parts of the country, with the average income required for a first-time buyer (FTB) to purchase...
Q&A - will the built environment ever be completely digital?
To kick off the new year, we conduct a Q&A with Tzvete Doncheva, who looks after the PR and ecosystem building at Round...
Insight: most affordable UK commuter towns revealed
With the new year bringing fresh rail fare increases for commuters, online mortgage broker Trussle has revealed the UK's most affordable...
Investment in the 2020s – what are the main things to look out for?
It's impossible to know for sure what the major investment trends will be for the next decade, but if recent trends...
Why 2020 could be a strong year for the UK's PBSA sector
A new student housing report from global real estate firm JLL has revealed that the outlook for UK PBSA (purpose-built student...
Revealed: what is going on in the Portsmouth property market?
Portsmouth-based agency NEXA Properties has released its latest report on the city which analyses how its property market is currently functioning. The...
Will Build to Rent developments be entirely tech-led in the future?
Last week PIT attended a roundtable discussion at WeWork Monument where the future of Build to Rent, the role of PropTech/AI...
How can technology in the property sector increase homes built and sold?
The UK population is growing by more than 500,000 people each year, yet only about half the homes needed are built...
The later living sector - an opportunity for investors?
In recent weeks we have featured articles on the investment potential of retirement living and care homes. Here, Alex Pelopidas - partner at...
London regeneration: what is the Canada Water Masterplan?
In the latest part of our series on London's regeneration hotspots, Property Investor Today finds out more about the dramatic plans...
Rent controls cause damage to tenants, new research argues
New research has claimed that rent controls hurt tenants by drying up the supply of rental homes and in some cases...
Senior living – is it the next major property investment trend?
Last month Property Investor Today attended AEW UK'S economic briefing on senior living to find out whether this could be the...
Project Etopia receives significant investment from Reuben Brothers
The modular house-building and off-site construction industry recently received a major endorsement when it was revealed that the Reuben Brothers have...
Eco-villages – will they soon be mainstream?
Property Investor Today was recently invited along to the 150th anniversary celebrations of renowned constructor Sir Robert McAlpine, where we met...
Does Size Matter for Property Investors
When it comes to property investment, the old adage is 'location, location, location'. Any property investor that has found success will...
Why are changing lifestyles reshaping the real estate market across Europe?
The property landscape in cities across Europe is being transformed by changing lifestyle patterns, growing affordability pressures and delayed life milestones,...
UK's most expensive cities become more affordable
The average house price in London now stands at £483,100, which is 13 times more than typical earnings in the capital,...
Income to buy hits £54,000 despite weaker city house price growth, Zoopla says
The average income required for a first-time buyer (FTB) to purchase a home has grown 9% since 2016 and stands at...
Buying agency predicts the next prime hotspots in London
London's next prime hotspots have been revealed by buying agency Black Brick, with previously overlooked areas topping the list of recommendations. "In...
House price growth decelerates as London slowdown extends to southern cities
House prices in UK cities increased by 1.7% over the 12 months to March 2019, the same levels of growth recorded...
The best and worst places for property affordability and clean living revealed
Areas in the UK with an excellent air quality rating of over 80 were home to an average house price of...
Holiday lettings set to benefit from ongoing Brexit uncertainty
A Brexit-inspired holiday letting boom is expected to hit the South West this year, according to local holiday letting agency Bournecoast. The...
Landlord action to avoid high tax costs could reduce BTL transactions
Landlord action to reduce higher tax costs could lead to a lower level of buy-to-let mortgage transactions going forward. That is according...
THE UK'S HIDDEN PROPERTY INVESTMENT HOTSPOTS
Recent years have seen a shift in buyer activity across the UK's property market, with London's much publicised decline in popularity...
Over half of millennials would live in a caravan to get on the property ladder
Over half (51%) of millennials are willing to purchase an alternative dwelling over a house or flat to get on the...
Bristol wins crown of UK's best city for house-sharers
New research has revealed that Bristol is the best city for house shares – a way of renting which is particularly...
Brexit uncertainty is heavily impacting rental and house prices, says agent
Uncertainty over Brexit is thought to be having a significant impact on rental and house prices, according to a recent Belvoir...
Unlocking Slough, the key to your next investment
As London continues to wane in popularity for investors and renters alike – with increasing numbers of people moving out of...
Private rented sector investment in the UK to reach £75bn by 2025
At least £75 billion of investment will be committed to the private rented sector (PRS) by 2025, according to the latest...
UK property investors remain upbeat in spite of ongoing uncertainty
A recent poll suggests that the majority of UK property investors are set to grow their portfolios in 2019, despite a...
Majority of older renters fear that they will never afford own home
The number of 35 to 54-year-olds renting a home has risen by 15% in the least three years, according to new...
Where are the best places to invest in property overseas during 2019?
Property investment is no longer confined to the UK's borders. In fact, these days, the global market can offer some of...
Research outlines London's top commuter hotspots
The latest analysis from estate agent Jackson-Stops has revealed the top commuter hotspots for London, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham, with Luton...
Overall asking prices will remain flat in 2019, Rightmove predicts
The national average asking price of property coming to market is to remain flat at 0% in 2019, according to a...
The UK's top rental hotspots for landlords revealed
The top investment opportunities for landlords have been revealed in a new analysis of the buy-to-let (BTL) market. Despite the string of...
Why your next property investment should be in France
France, the home of the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles, has more recently gained a reputation as one of...
It's official! No more £100,000 properties for sale in London
The death of the £100,000 property in London is now official, with research revealing that there are now no properties for...
Property transactions dip across the UK
The UK property market is facing a period of consolidation as property transactions dip, according to DJ Alexander Ltd. The property management...
Life-long renters could face a shortage of homes
The housing market is not set up for the increasing number of life-long renters, a property management company has claimed. DJ Alexander,...
Home-movers warned to act now to move by Christmas
Average asking prices of newly-marketed property show a fall of 2.3% in August as new sellers launch a 'late summer sale',...
A secured loan and declined mortgage enquiry [Case Study]
Remortgage affordability decline & a £19,000 consolidation to make monthly savings Problem The client wanted to borrow £19,000 to consolidate her two...
House price growth increases but rate continues to slow
UK national house price growth is on an upward curve, according to Carter Jonas. But it continues to slow with rates...
Winchester has the most vulnerable rental market, research finds
New research by Gatehouse Bank has revealed that Winchester is home to the most vulnerable rental market as tax changes amplify...
Rents in private rental sector increase in line with RPI
Residential rent rises in the private rental sector (PRS) have been closely tied to the rate of inflation and retail price...
Property guardians – is this the future of renting in London?
As a reaction to (and by-product of) London's housing crisis, there has been a rise in recent years in the number...
Affordability and stamp duty are disrupting the UK property market – Knight Frank
The number of homes sold in London was lower than any other part of England and Wales last year, according to...
Investors targeted as over 500 London flats cost more than £1m
London currently contains 585 one-bed flats for sale for more than £1 million, according to research by online estate agents HouseSimple.com. The...
110th Ideal Home Show highlights Britain's enduring fascination with home improvements
The Ideal Home Show, taking place at Olympia London from Saturday 17 March to Monday 2 April, heralds one of the...
Allsop Residential Auctions defied all the odds in 2017
Allsop Residential Auctions has taken a look back on a successful 2017 for the firm, when it raised a total of...
Home price to earnings ratio in London reaches all-time high
The gap between house prices and average earnings has reached a record high in London, according to a new study conducted...
Birmingham joins the list of Northern investment hotspots
Birmingham has joined Manchester and Liverpool as one of the top Northern property investment hotspots, according to fresh research from IP...
Property investment in Birmingham continues to boom
Research carried out by PwC and thinktank Urban Land Institute has revealed that Birmingham remains a UK property investment hotspot, ranking...
British house prices will 'struggle to rise much' this year
Residential property price growth across Britain eased to a three-month low in August, as cooler economic conditions and political uncertainty continued...
House prices in Birmingham rise faster than anywhere in the country
Birmingham is now the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased...
Asking prices in the UK fall
The average asking price of property coming on to the market has dropped by 0.9%, or £2,758, this month, according to...
Fewer investors using gifted deposits
The number of investors using gifted deposits, a sum of money that is given by a family member forming all or...
Aston Mead backs MPs call to cut stamp duty
Land broker Aston Mead has backed calls for a reduction to stamp duty across all property price brackets in order to...
How millennials shape the UK housing market
Millennials are the generation born between the early 1980s and the early years of the 21st century, which means that at...
Plan to ban leaseholds on new-build houses is 'step in right direction'
The government's plan to ban housebuilders from selling houses as leasehold in England and reduce ground rents on flats to zero...
Prices in key UK cities up 5.1% in H1 2017
Residential property prices in key UK cities have proved resilient in the first half of the year, with growth of 5.1%,...
Asking prices 'remain muted' despite high demand from buyers
Asking prices for residential properties in England and Wales have remained broadly unchanged over the past month, as price sensitive homebuyers...
Manchester establishes itself as a major buy-to-let property hotspot
Despite recent turmoil, it seems Manchester is a city on the up, as it is now being identified as a true...
UK rents fall for the second consecutive month
UK rental prices fell for the second month in a row in June, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The data...
US home sales rebound as prices hit new high
Residential property sales in the US rebounded last month following a fall in April, helping to drive up prices in the...
UK property price growth is 'occurring at an unattainable rate'
The average asking price in the UK fell 0.4% in June compared with the previous month according to new data released...
The DUP's housing policies at-a-glance
After calling a surprise snap general election in a bid to increase her party's majority in the House of Commons and...
New government urged to make housing 'a top priority'
The Conservative party, assuming it is able to form a new government, is being urged to make tacking the growing housing...
Overseas buyers influencing US luxury home market
International buyers of residential property in the U.S. may not necessarily have a major impact on the overall housing market, but...
Custom and self build could deliver up to 50,000 new homes a year, says expert
A host of self build celebrities, including Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs and George Clarke of Amazing Spaces, have backed the...
It was 'inevitable' that UK house prices would ease
The recent slowdown in UK house prices suggests that the market is cooling, but very few experts are surprised. The latest house...
Which party do you think is best suited to preside over the UK housing market?
With housing high on the political agenda ahead of tomorrow's general election, all the major parties have pledged to tackle the...
Many property investors are struggling to obtain mainstream funding
Sterner affordability criteria, stress testing and more robust risk management for lenders seeking to underwrite mortgage contracts has left many property...
House prices in Manchester continue to rise faster than anywhere in the country
Manchester remains the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased faster...
Mortgage robo-advisor raises £2m seed funding ahead of launch
MortgageGym, which is planning to try and change the way UK consumers access the mortgage market, has announced the successful completion...
UK house prices stall amid affordability issues
Annual house price growth continues to slow, as affordability issues deter many prospective homebuyers. With 2017 proving to be a rather challenging time...
House prices in England and Wales rise marginally
Residential property prices continued to increase at a modest pace in April, the latest figures show. The average home in England and...
Vendors starting to realise 'their homes aren't worth as much as they thought'
UK house prices fell again in April, as growing uncertainty and affordability constraints continue to have an impact on buyers across...
House price inflation at 12-year high in large regional cities
City level residential property price growth gained momentum in the first quarter of the year, rising by 3.5%, led by large...
Alex Lubinsky, CEO of Rentberry
Recently I caught up with the Alex Lubinsky CEO of Rentberry, the app that allows a tenant to place a bid...
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Typical property asking price up £3.5k in April 2017
Homeowners across the UK planning to sell up are being warned of the risks of listing their home at an unrealistic...
Remortgage levels at eight-year peak
Levels of remortgaging reached the highest level for eight years in February, while the average amount borrowed fell, according to new...
Number of homes listed for sale increase across the UK
The number of new properties listed for sale across the UK was up 21.7% in March compared to February, fresh figures...
Mortgage accessibility in the UK hits three-year high
Mortgage accessibility in the UK has improved to its highest level since tougher lending conditions came into play as part of...
House prices in England and Wales 'remain indestructible'
House prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to last year's referendum, with various experts, including...
The widening gulf between salaries and house prices is "extremely worrying"
Residential property prices in England and Wales now cost 7.6 times the average income, up from 3.6 times earnings in 1997,...
UK house price growth continues to slow
Residential property price growth continues to slow across parts of the UK, led by falls in London where annual home price...
London home buyers down 3% in Q4 2016
The number of home buyers in London fell to the lowest level for four years, fresh figures from the Council of...
Confidence in UK housing market remains strong
The UK housing market remains remarkably solid, as reflected by the 4.9% increase in the volume of residential property transactions between...
Canadian home prices rise further
Residential property prices in Canada continued to increase in January, led by gains in Toronto's red-hot housing market, fresh figures show. The...
International buyers routinely rejected for UK mortgages
Overseas investors and British expats are finding it increasingly difficult to secure mortgages in the UK to fund property acquisitions, according...
London's ability to 're-invent and evolve' makes it Europe's most superior city
With fears of a residential and commercial property crash having receded following last year's Brexit vote, London is starting to look...
Chronic housing shortage could keep UK house prices rising
UK house prices are likely to continue to rise in 2017 as building lags demand for homes, the Halifax has warned. The...
House price growth shifting from London to regional cities
Property prices across the largest UK cities rose by an average of 7.2% in 2016, taking the 20 city average to...
UK house prices up 6.5% in December
Residential property prices in the UK rose by 1.7% in December compared with the previous month to reach an average of...
UK house prices set to remain flat in 2017 amid Brexit uncertainty
UK property prices are expected to remain largely unchanged in 2017, owed largely to uncertainty over Brexit negotiations, according to the...
House prices set to rise across major UK cities in 2017
Residential property prices across many of the UK's largest 20 cities appear to offer plenty of room for growth in 2017,...
Mortgage lending drops 11% in a year
Mortgage lending was down 11% in October compared with the corresponding month last year with £10.5bn borrowed for residential property purchases...
UK house price growth picks up pace, says Halifax
UK house prices rose at their fastest pace for eight months in November, fresh property price data has revealed. The Halifax, part...
Mortgage affordability hits record low
It is now more affordable than ever before to take out a mortgage, new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders...
UK house prices increase unexpectedly in October - Halifax
There was a surprise rise in UK home prices in October, despite the slowdown in the housing market in recent months,...
UK housing market sees a 'reverse ripple'
Historically, UK property prices have demonstrated a distinct spatial pattern over time, rising initially in a cyclical upswing in prime central...
Property sales drop 11.3% amid housing shortage
The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...
September mortgage lending hits nine year high
Gross mortgage lending last month hit a nine year high for the month of September, despite a 7% month-on-month drop, new...
Sellers in the UK up their asking prices, but it's a buyer's market down south
Asking prices for homes across the UK rose by 0.9% this month, fresh data from Rightmove shows. According to the property website,...
Some 43% of residential properties do not meet 'Home Living Standard'
Shelter is calling for greater protection for tenants after new research by the housing charity found that 43% of homes in...
Investors target house-share market
An increasing number of investors are rushing to invest in the house-share market through crowdfunding sites, according to Smart Property, which...
House price growth slows in September – Halifax
Residential property prices continued to cool in September as the property market softens, with the latest data from Halifax revealing that...
Annual house price growth slows to 6.9%, says Halifax
The annual rate of UK house price growth cooled further in August, after slowing the previous month, fresh data shows. Halifax said...
UK house price growth continues to slow, says Hometrack report
There has been a sharp slowdown in house price growth across all major cities in the south of England, but market...
US house prices up 1.2%
Residential property prices in the US rose by 1.2% in the second quarter of the year as the number of homes...
Top global property investment hotspots unveiled
Prime residential property prices across the world's major cities increased on average by 4.4% in the 12 months to June 2016, with...
Sharp rise in new housing approvals in London
More than two-thirds of planning applications for the construction of new homes in London were approved during the second quarter of...
Lewis Hamilton's win in Hungary sparks worldwide tour
Following Lewis Hamilton's comfortable victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, we delve into the fast lane to take you...
UK house prices set to fall, says RICS
House prices are still rising but surveyors are warning the market to be braced for a significant slowdown in the coming...
UK house prices rebound after April dip
Residential property prices in the UK rose by 0.6% in May, twice the rate forecast in a Reuters poll of economists...
House prices continue to rise in UK's big cities
Residential property prices in cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester have increased significantly over the past year, a survey...
US home prices continue to rise
Residential property sales in the United States rose further in April despite rising prices and a decline in housing supply, the...
Property prices to rise despite weaker demand
Demand for residential properties unsurprisingly fell in April following the introduction of higher stamp duty for buy-to-let and second home buyers,...
Shared ownership to provide 'stable returns' – Savills
New government funding to help significantly boost the supply of new shared ownership homes across the UK looks set to open...
Housebuilding boost for construction sector
There was a sharp rise in the number of new homes under construction in February, despite an overall fall in construction...
Prime London rental market cools
The rental market in prime central London is starting to slow following a year of record breaking growth with rents either...
Property made more unaffordable by new-build homes
Research carried out by Nottingham Trent University has shown that new-build properties may be making owning a home in the UK...
New homes announcement won't solve the real problems, think tank says
The Centre for Policy Studies has argued that solving the housing crisis will require a broader approach to "affordability" and "sustainability". The...
Average property price in the UK nearly £200,000
The latest report by Nationwide has shown that the average price of property in the UK has now risen to £196,999, an...
Is new housing legislation doing more harm than good?
The government will be extending mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in order to raise the standards in the...
Berlin rent controls will work, says investment firm
Despite a recently introduced rent cap, the rental sector in Berlin will remain profitable for landlords and investors, according to Property Frontiers. Berlin...