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Agents reveal biggest challenges when starting an estate agency business

The latest research by eXp UK , the platform for personal estate agents and estate agency businesses, has revealed that for estate agents who take the plunge and start their own business, maintaining motivation and momentum was the hardest obstacle to overcome, with the majority needing six months to a year before they felt their business was gaining traction.

The survey of UK estate agents*,...

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Getting mortgage-ready

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events , has released a number of top tips to help the nation’s homebuyers, and first-time buyers in particular, when it comes to getting mortgage ready ahead of a potential purchase.

Stipendiums has broken down the homebuying process into 12 essential steps via their first product release, Merge , and will be releasing a series...

Dandara East Scotland launches first Island showhomes

Scottish housebuilder Dandara is unveiling the first showhomes from its new Island collection of homes in Shawfair and Eskbank near Edinburgh on Saturday 23rd of April.

Designed to reflect the changing needs of today’s buyers, the four-bedroom Iona home at Shawfair and the five-bedroom Canna at Eskbank Gardens will be open to view from 11am-5pm on the opening weekend.

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Average FTB deposit soars in the last five years

Average FTB deposit cost soars in the last five years

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events such as home moving, has revealed that the average cost of a mortgage deposit on a first home has climbed by 54% in the last decade, pushing homeownership further out of reach for the nation’s first-time buyers.

Stipendium analysed the current cost facing...

Help to Buy on the decline, but will housebuilders miss it?

The latest research by the new-build sales optimisation platform, Unlatch , has revealed that the impact of the Help to Buy scheme within the new-build sector has been in slow decline, despite Help to Buy transactions still accounting for a sizable proportion of homes delivered by the nation’s three biggest housebuilders.

Launched in 2013, Help to Buy has been helping homebuyers onto...

London’s most expensive rental homes

London rental platform, Rentd , has revealed that while the average London tenant will pay £1,574 per month, the average cost of residing at the very top of the capital’s rental market comes in at a huge £23,839 - a 1415% rental price premium.

Rentd looked at the average cost of renting in each London borough before comparing this to the most expensive rental listing currently...

AML within the property industry: Why The Two Tier Approach?

Each year there are over 1.5 million homes listed for sale in the UK and the potential sellers of each all require anti-money laundering checks - often there’s more than one check per property in the case of joint ownership.

Since June 2017 property buyers, at the point that an offer is accepted, are required to provide identification for the purposes of the agent carrying out such...

Dandara Easter bunny brings eggcellent gifts to local primary school

This Easter, Dandara Southern, who is building new homes at its Paddock View development in Yapton, East Sussex, is continuing its partnership with Yapton CofE Primary School by having an Easter bunny visit the school to spread Easter cheer and hand out Easter eggs.

To celebrate the Easter holiday, Dandara enlisted the help of their very own Easter bunny, who goes by the name Jonny...

Fast Forward Moving To One Of The Final New Homes in Loggerheads

SELLERS could be just 24 hours away from becoming buyers and securing one of the final new homes in the Staffordshire village of Loggerheads.

Elan Homes is offering a lifeline to those who perhaps fear they will miss out on a move to the popular Brook Meadow development because they have a house to sell.

With the homebuilder’s EasyMove service they won’t have to worry about...

Surrey’s premier luxury housebuilder makes substantial site acquisition

Octagon Developments has acquired Hampton Court Estate, a highly desirable 1.59-acre brownfield site after a competitive bidding process.

The site, located on Summer Road in Thames Ditton, sits at the junction of Hampton Court Way, on the south side of Hampton Court Bridge, just 500m from Hampton Court station and Hampton Court Village.

Full planning permission has already...

First-time buyer homes to launch in Chelmsford’s sought-after new neighbourhood

Property prices in Chelmsford postcodes have outpaced the national average by 30% for the start of 2022, with the cost of the average newbuild home now valued at £446,000 in the area.*

Meeting the demand for affordable first-time buyer homes in Chelmsford, L&Q will launch the next phase of eleven two- and three-bedroom Shared Ownership terraced houses at The Arbour, a growing...

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