Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events, has compiled a guide on what to expect when it comes making an offer on a property and the best, most reliable ways of ensuring that your offer is accepted. Understand the local market When you have found the home you want to […]
With rising house prices in the UK and travel well and truly back on this summer, data from Google trends reveals there has been a recent spike in people searching for ‘buying a property abroad’ with 2.2k searches in the past month. For those who have always dreamed of living […]
Despite mortgage rate rises, the property market remains very active. At the end of March 2022, the Nationwide Building Society reported the annual UK house price growth had increased to 14.3%. This meant the average price was up by over £33,000 on the previous year and the average house price […]
Each year there are over 1.5 million homes listed for sale in the UK and the potential sellers of each all require anti-money laundering checks – often there’s more than one check per property in the case of joint ownership. Since June 2017 property buyers, at the point that an […]
It is widely agreed that today’s housing market is a seller’s market. Buyer demand is through the roof and homes are selling at record pace, often for money well above the asking price. However, there are still some factors that can greatly hamper the speed of a sale, so property […]
Conveyancing wait times have hit a record high of 59 days, up 26% from 2020 as higher demand and the lack of knowledge of the buying process has likely continued to fuel the worst wait times on record. Research from The Law Society reveals that over a third of home-movers […]
Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has looked at the most common contributing factors that lead to a property sale falling through. Fall-throughs are commonplace in the UK housing market and It’s thought that one in ten property purchases fails before completion. However, with the market booming in recent months, it’s estimated that […]
Recent research from Plumbnation has found the most expensive location to buy property in the UK is not surprisingly Kensington & Chelsea in West London, where the average house price is over £1.4m with an average cost per square metre a whopping £28,500 plus. Westminster (with house prices also averaging […]
Buying a house can be a long and stressful process, and the pandemic certainly didn’t help ease the anxieties. In fact, 94% of homebuyers in the last year said they felt rushed into the purchase. The pandemic has created a hectic market with people rushing sales through, but this may […]
A question I am sometimes asked is ‘how do I know what type of property to buy?’, which is a great question. I think it’s a great question because I’ve seen that a lot of investors, new and experienced, often think the answer is obvious, but they often get it […]
