Northern line extension: Two new Tube stations open (29/9/21)
By Harry Low, BBC London (20 September) Two new Tube stations have opened in the first major expansion of the London Underground this century. The first train on the… Read more »
Category Archives: Market News
Stamp duty holiday ‘to be extended’ as Rishi Sunak considers moving deadline to June (24/2/21)
The Treasury announced last year that it would temporarily raise the stamp duty threshold from £125,000 to £500,000 for property sales in England and Northern Ireland. But many people… Read more »
UK imposes hotel quarantine for travelers from Covid hotspots (28/1/2021)
CNN • Updated 28th January 2021 (CNN) — British people arriving home from 30 “high risk” countries will have to undergo a 10-day hotel quarantine at their own expense, as the United Kingdom… Read more »
East West and Northumberland rail lines get £794m boost (23/1/21)
bbc.com 23.1.21 Two railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government. East West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge,… Read more »
HSBC will resume offering mortgages to buyers with a 10 per cent deposit (11/1/21)
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/ 8 January 2021 HSBC will resume offering mortgages to buyers with a 10 per cent deposit, following similar moves from the likes of NatWest, Halifax and Coventry Building Society. The… Read more »
Government not planning to extend the stamp duty holiday (18/12/20)
18 Dec 20 THE STAMP Duty Holiday has provided important financial support to Britons who are purchasing a home. But homebuyers have been warned about missing the key deadline… Read more »
Annual price growth in key UK cities continues to moderate, latest index shows (8/3/2019)
4th March 2019 The annual rate of growth in key cities in the UK continued to moderate in the 12 months to January 2019, up 2.9%, but 13 cities recorded… Read more »
UK house prices to grow by 13.1% over the next five years, says latest forecast (23/1/2019)
www.propertywire.com 14th January 2019 UK House price growth in the UK is expected to be relatively moderate at 1.8% in 2019 with the property market affected by a number of economic,… Read more »
Andrew Cowan, CEO of Manchester Airport, gives his views on the 80th birthday celebrations and plans for the future SHARE (2/8/2018)
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk – 27 JUN 2018 This year is a significant year for us all at Manchester Airport as we mark 80 years since the airport opened, and our birthday celebrations have… Read more »
How to: acquiring a UK residential property (20/6/2018)
https://gulfnews.com June 6, 2018 By Simon Green and Kelly Dunn In the UK there are two types of legal ownership of a property: freehold and leasehold. An owner of a freehold… Read more »