Online giant pinpoints reasons for upsurge hours after hopes to extend Stamp Duty deadline hit a snag Latest figures show the property market has made a buoyant start to the new year – thanks to the Stamp Duty holiday, virtual viewings and other innovative ways estate agents are helping buyers and renters. Rightmove, the …
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Continue readingA four-fold rise in mortgage products for homeowners with a 10% deposit Since last summer there has been a four-fold increase in low-deposit mortgage products available. The low-deposit mortgage products, which offer deposits as low as 10%, will offer some relief to first-time buyers. Last September there were only 44 mortgage products …
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Continue readingIs your bedroom due an upgrade? Check out the hot, new trends for 2021 It’s the New Year, which means new beginnings. Now is the perfect time for a change of scenery within your own four walls. So if you fancy giving your bedroom a makeover, but are stuck on ideas, here are a …
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Continue readingLockdown 3.0 is proving tougher than the previous two for many, so we have some ideas to keep your spirit’s lifted There is no denying it, lockdown 3.0 is tough. Families up and down the country are struggling with finances, boredom, loss of ambition and their mental health. Unlike last year, this lockdown has …
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Continue readingBig week ahead for home buyers as the Chancellor considers a Stamp duty holiday extension A petition to extend the Stamp Duty Holiday for an additional six months has reached over 110,000 signatures, and the House of Commons has now confirmed that there will be a debate on the issue. The Chancellor …
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Continue reading2021 promises to be a literary gold mine. Here we take a look at the books have got us excited this year… 2020 brought us some fantastic books. Whether it was a non-fiction autobiography such as Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, or the prequel to the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins or something more political …
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Continue readingPrime Minister’s old workplace launches the campaign called, ‘Stamp out the Duty,’ today. The Daily Telegraph, the old workplace of Boris Johnson and considered a strong influence on the current government, is ‘calling on the Treasury to avoid penalising thousands of homebuyers at a time when mortgage lenders are already demanding vast deposits …
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Continue readingIt’s a new year and time to try something new. But just how daring will you be? Bucket lists have an air of morbid finality, a list of ‘must-do’ ambitions before that date with destiny. However, a schedule of mind-expanding, physically demanding experiences might be the ideal psychological boost required as we try to shake …
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Continue readingStuck at home all day looking at the grey sky at your window? Dress your way to happiness this month and lighten your mood. Lockdown is tough. Especially this one which has fallen in the middle of winter. That hour of exercise doesn’t look so appealing when the rain is falling and the wind …
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Continue readingExperts say it would have been a disaster if Government had mothballed ‘cornerstone of the economy’ Mortgage market experts last week declared “it’s business as usual” despite the third national lockdown, with one insisting many would be grateful the Government had sidestepped “placing the property market back into a pandemic-induced cryogenic deep freeze”. Insiders pointed …
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Continue readingNew lockdown adds to existing problems processing applications, industry experts insist Property industry experts are urging the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to extend the Stamp Duty deadline and prevent anxious homebuyers from “being thrown off a cliff edge”. In the first national lockdown last year, the Chancellor announced a holiday from the tax to keep …
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