Category Archives: conveyancing

First NewBuy sale

Bovis Homes is celebrating after announcing the country’s first NewBuy sale. It says that a Cambridgeshire buyer has purchased an apartment with lender Nationwide through the NewBuy scheme, which provides prospective buyers with a 95% mortgage and predicts it will be … Continue reading

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A nation of renters?

The head of the UK’s biggest estate agent has said that government action is needed to stop us becoming a nation of renters. Are you on the property ladder or are you having to rent? Grenville Turner, chief executive of … Continue reading

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Is squatting bill aiming at the wrong target?

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is presently going through the various readings in parliament and one particular clause targets squatters. Clause 130 of the bill, if passed, would make squatting a criminal offence as opposed to … Continue reading

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Increase in mortgage lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that mortgage lending has increased year-on-year, for the fifth month in a row, though it added that there was considerable uncertainty as to the prospects of the housing market during the year … Continue reading

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