All housing market articles – Page 14
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Housing market may shut down if covid crisis worsens
Fresh government guidance issued yesterday confirms market remains open for now
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Housebuilding leads growth in construction activity
Latest purchasing managers’ survery says optimism hit four year high in December
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Mortgage approvals hit 13-year high
Loan volume topped 100,000 in November for first time since global financial crisis
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Housebuilding activity will not fully recover until 2023
Latest forecast from Experian predicts output will remain below pre-pandemic levels this year and in 2022
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November house sales highest since before the credit crunch
Official figures show scale of recovery in housing market since lockdown
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Value of house sales up 26% in 2020, says Zoopla
Rise worth £62bn comes from growth in sales of higher value properties
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Rightmove records second month of price falls
Property portal says prices will end the year 6.6% up on 2019, and predicts further growth in 2021
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First-time buyer mortgage availability hits new low
Drop in products for those with 5% deposits comes amid Help to Buy hiatus
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Bellway warns of Help to Buy sales hiatus
Firm also says national lockdown contributed to 30% fall in reservations in November
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Gallaghers to take housebuilder Abbey private
Deal to delist agreed as Abbey warns of “very difficult” trading periods ahead
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Surveyors predict sales slowdown by February
Latest RICS survey finds growth in demand starting to level off
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In Focus
Sentiment survey: How confident do developers feel about 2021?
The housing sector is blessed with a mini-boom - if you believe the hype - but new data reveals not all residential firms are bullish about their resilience to covid or their prospects next year
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A third of developers ‘uncertain’ about recovery from pandemic
Exclusive survey finds 36% have made redundancies despite strong post-lockdown rebound
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Prices rose sharply in November
Halifax says lockdown rebound in price growth adds up to strongest five-month run in 16 years
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Housing associations see partial recovery in development spend
Latest survey by regulator shows spend in three months to September down by a fifth on last year
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Prices rise nearly 1% in November
Nationwide reports biggest annual rise for five years as housing market defies lockdown
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Net housing additions hit record high last year
However figures show growth in output had slowed to just 1% even prior to covid pandemic
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New Help to Buy scheme to open to purchasers in December
Government sets date for buyers to apply amid “hiatus” fears
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Rightmove records first house price fall in four months
Property portal says price dipped 0.5% in the last month, despite continued strong demand
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Vistry reinstates dividend following strong trading
Shares rise in housebuilder as it reports “robust” trading in second lockdown