Property Market Information from Martin Cunningham

Shapps calls for house price stability

October 13th 2010

Housing minister, Grant Shapps, at yesterdays Housing Market Intelligence conference in London called for house price stability to prevent generations being priced out of home ownership.

Buy to Let Funding Starts Flowing Again

September 29th 2010

The specialist buy to let lender Paragon announced yesterday its return to the UK buy-to-let mortgage market.

Habitation Habits...home ownership an outdated aspiration?

September 24th 2010

Grant Shapps, housing minister said at this week’s it at the NHF annual conference that “There will be no return to the way it was, because boom and bust in housing cannot be allowed to happen again.” Shapps comments came on the same day as delegates attending the CML conference where Richard Capie, a at CIH explained that spending cuts of up to 40% would be targeted on transport and housing, relying on the private rented sector to rescue those unable to be housed by LA's.

Early Winters Chill for UK Housing Market!?

September 22nd 2010

The picture emerging over the last few days suggests the UK housing market is reflecting the performance of the later part of our summer…..poor!, indeed if the numbers coming out of the HMRC show that completions are running at around half the levels of 2007 and the Council for Mortgage Lenders (CML) report that mortgage lending fell to its lowest in August for ten years in terms of value.

new report states eight in ten people do not understand house buying

August 9th 2010

A new report from comparison website Confused.com has shown that most people do not understand the processes involved in buying and selling a house. Nor do they understand mortgages and other financial products. The survey found that almost 80% of people find mortgages confusing, and 74% are baffled by pensions. House prices and buying a property are also areas of confusion, with 80% not understanding what is involved.