The most desirable places to buy a forever home
Sandwiched between Newcastle upon Tyne and the North Sea, North Tyneside offers the best of both worlds.The coastline is blessed...
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Mortgage interest bills for home movers hit 17-year high
Mortgage interest bills for home movers have hit a 17-year high as higher borrowing costs make it harder to move...
Three-quarters of flats sell for a real-terms loss
The local authorities where sellers were most likely to make a loss after inflation were East Cambridgeshire (95pc of sellers),...
Why Rayner’s empty homes plan is built on a fantasy
Cash-strapped councils also face the threat of the property being repossessed by lenders if the owner can no longer afford...
‘The rich are being attacked everywhere. We don’t have hoards in the bank – we have mortgages’
Down in the bowels of Broughton Sanctuary – eight miles from Skipton, North Yorkshire – is a framed newspaper cutting....
Why buying a house was quicker in the days of fax machines
Paul Lyons, managing director at Lyons Bowe Solicitors, says the issue stems from professionals being overstretched.The number of conveyancers in...
Help to Buy was ‘very high value for money’, audit finds
But between 2012 and 2019, profits at the housebuilder Persimmon trebled, with the York-based developer making more than £1bn in...
The collapse of boomers’ million-pound property dream
Others are wary that the market could fall even further and want to sell so that they can put the...
‘The best thing I ever did’: the homeowners downsizing years before retirement
The house is cheap and easy to maintain, giving the couple plenty of time to spend working on their garden...
Leasehold properties becoming unsellable, say estate agents
Propertymark’s report also found that short leases could prevent sales and, where a home had 80 years or less remaining,...
