Property Market

A hassle free path to a new home

Looking for a new home but can’t sell your present one? Barratt could provide the answer with their latest part exchange offer to North East homebuyers. They’ll consider buying your old place, or sell it for you free of charge, and then give you a mortgage subsidy worth up to £340 every month until 2011.

SHIP welcomes OFT sale and rent back probe

Andrea Rozario, Director General, SHIP (Safe Home Income Plans), comments on the OFT's (Office of Fair Trading) decision to seek substantiation from sale and rent back firms over adverts:

New initiative set to help first time buyers

Intermediate rent (IR) or Rent to HomeBuy is to play a bigger role in the future business development of one of the region’s biggest housing associations. Contour Homes, which works across 27 local authority areas in the North West, is allowing potential purchasers to rent a new home in order to save for a deposit to buy it later.

Fall in love with Barratt this Valentine’s Day

Barratt is joining in the romance of Valentine’s Day with a tempting £2,500 cashback offer to everyone reserving a new home at its developments across the North East next weekend (14/15 February).

OFT seeks substantiation from sale and rent back firms over adverts

The OFT has issued formal notices to 16 sale and rent back firms asking them to substantiate claims they make in their adverts.

Hundreds do it MiWay

If you started the new year worrying about your finances and think there is no way you can afford a stylish new home, then Miller Homes is urging you to think again.

Miller Homes champ Bill Hughes wins another accolade

Starting the year in glamorous style, housebuilding stars gathered at a gala ceremony in London for the house builders’ ‘Oscars’, the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) Pride in the Job UK Supreme Gala Dinner.

More clicks and mortar from Miller Homes

National housebuilder Miller Homes is offering further help to homebuyers with its new website. The site - millerhomes.co.uk - has not only been given an aesthetic makeover, but it has also been designed to make searching for a new home easier than ever.

UK house prices fall 1.3% in January

The price of a typical house fell by a further 1.3% in January, as the deepening economic recession and financial market turbulence continued to weigh on housing market sentiment and activity, according to the Nationwide Building Society.

Distressed property sales are key indicator of market position

Developers are starting to raise prices on distressed housing stock sales, reports Assetz, which is the first clear early sign that the housing market is reaching the bottom. House prices at auctions also appear to have started to plateau since the New Year.

Gardens being neglected by nearly one in five Brits

Nearly 1 in 5 Brits (19%) do not use their garden as a social or living space, and only 16% use it for between 3 and 4 months of the year, according to research by Alliance & Leicester Personal Loans, with nearly half (45%) thinking that building a conservatory would be enough to encourage them to appreciate their outside space for more of the year.