Property News
Property Sector News
3/7/20 Nationwide: Annual house price growth grinds to a halt in June as
the impact of the pandemic filters through ⇒
30/6/20 Property Weekly: The City of London has put The Mark Lane Estate on the market with an asking price of £103m, reflecting a net initial yield of 4.81%. ⇒
30/6/20 Property Weekly: Intu investor keen to flog Trafford Centre ⇒
24/6/20 Estate Agent Today: House prices to rise further over next three months – Zoopla ⇒
23/6/20 Inside Media: Pre-tax profits have been slashed of the property investment giant, Custodian REIT to £2.1m for the year to 31 March 2020, down from £23.6m. ⇒
23/6/20 City AM: UK house prices to fall five per cent this year ⇒
23/6/20 The Telegraph: The property hotspots with the most green space and best value homes ⇒
23/6/20 Relocate Magazine: Lockdown relaxation sparks property surge ⇒
22/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty ⇒
22/6/20 Todays Conveyor: Simultaneous Exchange And Completions – Are They A Good Thing? ⇒
High Streets
3/7/20 Business Money: Public appreciate efforts of retailers and their staff – BRC-Opinium coronavirus survey ⇒
29/6/20 Business Money: Shoppers feel retailers are doing enough to protect the public ⇒
23/6/20 Estate Agent Today:High Street agency veteran speaks up for hybrid business model ⇒
22/6/20 The Mirror: Next to reopen 66 more high street stores from today ⇒
22/6/20 Wired- Gov: Government provides further halt to business evictions and more support for high street firms ⇒
19/6/20 Property Week: New company aims to save UK high streets ⇒
Commercial Rentals
30/6/20 Property Weekly: June commercial rent collections mirror previous quarter day at four-day mark ⇒
23/6/20 Property Weekly: Travelodge CVA approved ⇒
22/6/22 Accountancy Today: To rent or not to rent? Chancellor’s changes swing commercial property benefit from Entrepreneur’s Relief to Capital Allowances ⇒
22/6/20 Estate Agent Today: The death has been announced of one of the country’s leading campaigners against the injustices of the leasehold system, Louie Burns. ⇒
Residential Rentals
3/7/20 Landlord Today: Rogue landlords in London’s East End forced to pay more than £100,000 ⇒
3/7/20: Landlord Today: New rent arrears guidance issued by leading housing organisations ⇒
29/6/20 landlord Today: Misery for tenants as cost of renting continues ‘to climb across the UK’⇒
22/6/22 Daily Mail: Inside the UK’s most sought-after rentals: From a chic London apartment with its own rooftop playground to a modern waterside home with an outdoor pool ⇒
Buy To Let Residential
2/7/20 Landlord Today: North West is home to fastest-growing buy-to-let yields ⇒
2/7/20 Landlord Today: Rents rise as the market returns to pre-Covid activity levels ⇒
2/7/20 Landlord Today: Ban on tenant evictions will not be extended beyond next month ⇒
30/6/20 Bridging and Commercial: Landlords will face ‘a lot of pressure’ throughout this year ⇒
30/6/20 Landlord Today: Slump in mortgage approvals will inevitably see people ‘renting for longer’ ⇒
25/6/20 Landlord Today: Landlord ordered to pay more than £3,000 after harassing tenants ⇒
24/6/20 Landlord Today: BTL rental yields remain broadly unchanged year-on-year ⇒
22/6/20 Landlord Today: Ipswich withdraws BTL products following high demand from applicants ⇒
22/6/20 Landlord Today: Court ruling will be ‘a huge relief to private and social landlords’ ⇒
22/6/20 Property Investor Today: A Build to Rent (BTR) mystery – what has happened to Atlas Residential UK? ⇒
Planning Permissions
24/6/20 Today’s Conveyancer: The government have confirmed that planning permissions that have expired between the start of lockdown (23rd March 2020) and the end of 2020 will automatically be extended to 1st April 2021 ⇒
22/6/20 Housing Today: Government to act to extend planning permissions ⇒
16/6/20 Property Week: Planning permission granted for next phase of £400m Kirkstall Forge scheme ⇒
12/6/20 Bridport News: Planning permission received for ‘green’ home to be built in Mount Lane, Eype, Dorset ⇒
Residential Developments
2/7/20 Aldermore: Aldermore has provided a £5m, 10 year, interest-only Commercial Residential Investment refinance facility to Quintain Alto Residential Limited ⇒
29/6/20 Business Money: Funding deal enables Manchester developer to buck trend with new residential scheme ⇒
25/6/20 Property Weekly: New Hill Group and Bioregional JV to build affordable green homes ⇒
25/6/20 Property Weekly: Barratt Homes benefiting the most from the government’s Help to Buy scheme ⇒
23/6/20 Property Reporter: Regeneration specialist, Vistry Partnerships, has announced that it has completed a new deal with government housing agency, Homes England, to acquire a site in Sandymoor, Runcorn, with a development value of £75m.⇒
23/6/20 Estate Agent Today: New homes delivery to plummet by a third despite high demand ⇒
Estate Agencies News
29/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Over 50 jobs lost as Midland agency, Andrew Grant, collapses into administration ⇒
25/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Distressed agents may benefit from the latest commercial eviction ban ⇒
25/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Boom! Agency records highest ever number of offers accepted in a week ⇒
24/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Industry veteran Harry Hill, a former chairman of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove, has now become a mentor at the new Agents Together foundation ⇒
24/6/20 Property Industry Eye: UK house price growth to remain positive over the next quarter – Zoopla ⇒
23/6/20 Letting Agent Today: Warning of ‘perfect storm’ for agents as new electrical checks arrive ⇒
23/6/20 Reuters: Rightmove sees revenue hit; says housing market recovering ⇒
23/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Rightmove and OnTheMarket extend cut-price fees deals ⇒
22/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Rightmove was warned for years to improve relationship with agents ⇒
22/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty ⇒
16/6/20 Estate Agent Today: Almost half of Keller Williams agency’s new recruits have no property experience ⇒
Overseas Properties
29/6/20 Property Investor Today: Investment in Portugal – Finnish group commits €30 million to a sustainable scheme ⇒
24/6/20 Mondaq: There are unique opportunities now for buying a house in Italy ⇒
22/6/20 Property Investors Today: Q&A – could Cyprus become the next European investment hotspot post-pandemic? ⇒
12/6/20 Property Investor: Q&A – why should you invest in Uruguay? ⇒