UK households end 32-month period of property price negativity

Knight Frank/Markit’s House Price Sentiment Index (HPSI) signals that average house prices remained unchanged in March. This stabilisation in sentiment contrasted with reports of lower house prices in each month since July 2010.The proportion of households reporting that the value of... Read More

House sales hit two-and-a-half year high

The number of houses sold in the UK reached its highest level in over two-and-a-half years, with chartered surveyors selling an average of 16.8 homes in the three months to February, according to the latest RICS housing market survey.During February, the increasing market stability seen in... Read More

Tenants in search of cheapest rents pile into bigger flatshares

House and flat shares are getting larger, as tenants search out cheaper rooms in Houses in Multiple Occupation.According to website SpareRoom, house shares with six or more bedrooms are the fastest growing property type on the site, both in terms of supply and demand.Over the past year,... Read More