Planning
Home owners in UK still confident about outlook of housing market going into 2017
Home owners across the UK believe that the value of their home rose over the last month and also think they will keep rising in 2017, the latest sentiment index shows. It is the fifth month in a row that the house price sentiment index from Knight Frank and IHA Markit has been in positive […] The post Home owners in UK still confident about outlook of housing market going into 2017 appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Most people helped onto housing ladder by UK govt schemes are first time buyers
The majority of those helped by the UK Government’s flagship Help to Buy schemes have been first time buyers, the latest statistics show. When they were first launched there were warnings that they would be used by people who didn’t really need help to buy a home and not the first time buyers they were […] The post Most people helped onto housing ladder by UK govt schemes are first time buyers appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Proposed rent controls in Ireland criticised as being a step too far for landlords
The Irish Government has been accused of interfering for wanting to reduce rent controls in cities where residential rents have been rising fast. It has proposed temporary controls on residential rents which would limit annual rent increases in Dublin and Cork, the country’s two largest cities to 4% but said it may lower this and […] The post Proposed rent controls in Ireland criticised as being a step too far for landlords appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →




