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Housing demand and sales are stagnant, says RICS
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (395+ words) The UK housing market showed little improvement in July, with buyer demand and agreed sales broadly unchanged from the previous month, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Residential Market Survey. New buyer enquiries recorded a net…...
Unfreezing housing benefits will not drive up rents
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (507+ words) New analysis suggests that unfreezing housing benefits would not drive increasing rents. It comes as ministers consider whether to continue freezing housing benefit rates from April next year. Successive governments have frozen Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates in an effort…...
Reaction to UK Finance mortgage arrears data
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (362+ words) UK Finance has released its latest mortgage arrears and possessions data for Q2 2026, which highlighted continuing lender support for customers facing financial difficulty. There were 77,940 homeowner mortgages in arrears of 2.5% or more of the outstanding balance in the second quarter of…...
Homes in Glasgow sell fastest in the UK
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (544+ words) Glasgow, Worcester and Belfast are the cities where houses sell the fastest – with many selling in less than two weeks. Figures from property management software provider Alto, which is plugged into more than 6,000 estate agents nationwide, found homes move quickest…...
Air-conditioning searches double as 61% consider installation
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (379+ words) Searches for homes with air conditioning on Rightmove have more than doubled this summer, rising by 104% compared with the same period last year, as new research suggests many households are becoming more conscious of how well their homes cope during…...
Affordable housing provider using AI to spot damp and mould
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (377+ words) Affordable housing provider, Stonewater, has partnered with AI specialist SPOTR to build a new approach to property management. The SPOTR AI image analysis platform is helping Stonewater improve the speed and regularity of risk assessment using uploaded and open-source images....
Rayner criticized over £20k speaking fee at Propertymark event
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (359+ words) Angela Rayner has been criticized after accepting a £20,000 speaking fee from Propertymark. About 20 members of the London Renters Union gathered outside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at 8:30am yesterday morning to present a novelty £20,001 cheque to Angela Rayner....
Goodlord - do not joke about tenancy fraud
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (249+ words) A new fraud report by Goodlord, entitled “Tenancy fraud is no joke” reviewed a sample of over 1m completed references during the period April 2023 – July 2026, and found that AI Intelligence (AI) has made convincing payslips, bank statements, and employment references easier…...
Calls for clarity, new thresholds and reductions to SDLT
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (649+ words) The new Prime Minister’s swift decision to rule out abolishing Stamp Duty could help revive buyer activity following a month of political uncertainty, according to Adam Jennings, head of residential at Chestertons. The number of prospective buyers registering across Chestertons…...
Bristol still England’s Japanese knotweed capital
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (254+ words) Bristol has retained its position as England’s leading Japanese knotweed hotspot, recording more than twice the infestation density of any other area. Analysis by Environet identified 1,324 incidences across Bristol, equivalent to 32.29 per square mile. Merseyside ranked second at 13.45 per square…...