Property portal Zoopla have begun listing their rental properties simultaneously on Facebook’s MarketPlace, the social platform’s answer to both Ebay and Craigslist. Zoopla has said its deal will upload 300,000 homes to rent onto MarketPlace, making it in one go the largest rental property platform outside of the big three portals in the UK. Figures on how many people use…

4.8 MILLION CONSIDERING BECOMING A LANDLORD IN 2018….. 9% of UK adults have shown an interest in taking out a buy-to-let mortgage in 2018, meaning an extra 4.8 million people could become landlords in 2018, according to Sainsbury’s Bank research. Of those taking out or considering a buy-to-let mortgage, over a third (35%) said a change in income had inspired…

Home-movers who want to move in by the traditional Christmas deadline, now only 18 weeks away, need to act now to do so, Rightmove has warned. The average time from agreeing a sale to moving in is 13 weeks so prospective buyers should be active in the market right now and make sure they have necessary finances in place. For…

The latest UK HPI release of property price data for June provided the first concrete look how the UK market has performed on the two-year anniversary of our decision to leave the EU. Across the UK, prices are up 7.3% since the vote. Regionally, the West and East Midlands are ahead of the rest with price growth hitting double-digit figures…

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Halifax has reported that first-time buyer numbers have hit their highest amount for a decade, increasing more than double the 10% rise for all buyer types.   The lender found that across Britain the average price of a typical first-time buyer property has out-performed the overall housing market.   First-time buyers are now putting down record deposits for their first…