Polski Dzial First Time Buyers Look to Family for Financial Help
New research has highlighted the difficulties experienced by some first time buyers as they try to take that all-important first step on the housing ladder. Family Members Play an Important Role A survey by Which? Mortgage Advisers found that 69% of respondents had taken more than two years to save a home deposit for their first […]
Shortage of Houses Continues to Pose Problems
A lack of properties coming onto the housing market is continuing to prove problematic, according to the latest Residential Market Survey by RICS. Fall in Activity The survey for January found little change in the number of new buyer enquiries, and only 5% of surveyors reported an increase in demand, which is the lowest reading […]
Britain’s Most Expensive Streets
Scotland’s most expensive street is currently to be found in St Andrews, according to new research by Bank of Scotland. The Scores, which is in very close proximity to the town’s Old Course golf course, now has an average house price of £2,179,000. Although Edinburgh can no longer claim to have the most expensive street […]
Home Ownership Is Still an Aspiration for Many
Recent research into attitudes towards housing tenure has found that home-ownership is still the nation’s overwhelming preference and aspiration – and not purely for financial reasons. The research, by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, found 72% of adults want to be home-owners in two years’ time, and 80% hope to own in ten years’ time, […]