Your monthly property market round-up

How to continue your home moving plans during lockdown 3.0?

 

Lockdown life seems all too familiar with 3.0’s prompt arrival.

 

Many of us are thus understandably experiencing the lingering urge to uproot and move home or renovate to improve our surroundings.

 

After all, if 2020 gave us anything, it was more time spent at home.

 

So surely we deserve to make them more enjoyable now that we’re tied to them once again?

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5 most common home survey problems and what to do next

 

Are you in the process of buying a property and are wondering about getting a survey?

 

Don’t make the mistake that far too many homebuyers still make, thinking it’s an unnecessary expense.

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The stamp duty holiday extension explained

 

On 3 March 2021, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday will be extended until 30 June 2021 after facing pressure to extend the deadline by three months amid concerns of a ‘cliff-edge’ come the end of March.

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Spring 2021 market report: price growth at four-year high

 

2020, a year in which the housing market defied expectations.

 

At 7.6%, annual price growth across the UK is at its strongest since the summer of 2016.

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Government to bring an end to unsafe cladding with multi-billion pound intervention

Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will be protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes, as Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick unveiled a five-point plan which will provide reassurance to homeowners and bring confidence to the housing market.

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Leasehold reform to save households up to tens of thousands of pounds

Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick has announced that millions of leaseholders will be given the right to extend their lease by a maximum term of 990 years at zero ground rent as part of the biggest reforms to English property law for forty years, fundamentally making home ownership fairer and more secure.

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