For the first time in many months, lenders are starting to compete for the business of first time home buyers. Just yesterday, Halifax announced a plan in which it would pay the stamp duty for first time home buyers.

Barratt Homes, a giant in the housing development sector, has recently launched a new incentive to try and boost the property market by offering to pay the stamp duty for buyers purchasing properties between £175,000 and £500,000. Properties under the value of £125,000 are exempt from stamp duty, and properties between £125,000 and £175,000 are [...]

Over recent months industry officials, housing developers, and the government have been desperately looking at ways to breathe life back onto the housing market, after house sales plummeted to record lows and estate agents reported average property sales equating to less than one home per week. With a number of factors affecting the housing market [...]

Although house prices have been falling for almost a year in the UK many consumers are still unable to afford to purchase a home due to a variety of factors. Mortgages are in short supply at present, which is creating a problem. And whilst lenders have been cutting their interest rates recently the costs associated [...]

Over recent months the number of property sales going through estate agents in the UK has plummeted, with estate agents reporting some of the lowest property sales figures in years. In fact, according to recent figures estate agents have only been averaging around five property sales per months each, which is the lowest in several [...]