Feb 21, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
There was a sharp rise in the number of first-time buyers entering the property market in 2017 despite having to put down a deposit that is more than double what was required ten years ago. The latest Halifax First-Time Buyer Review found that the number of first-...
Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
I have just been examining a big bundle of titles which were all dusty, making me sneeze, and some were barely legible. These titles relate to a property which has not yet been registered in the Land Register of Scotland but are titles recorded in Scotland’s General...
Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
Halifax has revealed that prices in the final quarter of 2017 (October-December) were 2.7% higher than in the same three months of the previous year. In addition house prices in that quarter were 1.3% higher than in the previous quarter (July-September).However...
Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Residential Property
New research by Halifax has revealed that the total value of privately owned UK housing stock has surpassed £6 trillion for the first time. Since 2007 the total value of private residential property in the UK has grown by £1.94 trillion (or 48%) to an estimated £6.02...
Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Residential Property
The Building Societies Association (BSA) has revealed that consumer confidence in the housing market hasn’t fully recovered since June’s General Election. Their recent research found that over a quarter of respondents (27%) do not agree that now is a good time to buy...
Jul 21, 2017 | Blog, Residential Property
Registers of Scotland have released a new report which gives an interesting insight into property market trends over the past ten years. It reveals that the total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2007-08 to 2016-17 reached over £143.4 billion....
