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Property Talk: What the Renters' Reform Bill means for renters, landlords and the property market as a whole
The government unveiled a major overhaul of the rental sector this week. So what could be in store for landlords and tenants? Annabel Dixon takes a look.
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Property Talk: Interest rates rise again — so are we near, or at, a peak?
The Bank of England’s decision to increase interest rates for the 12th time was expected. But is there more to come? Annabel Dixon takes a temperature check of the housing market.
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Is the housing market's spring boost a corner turned, or 'just a blip in a downward trend'?
Surprisingly bright numbers from the nation's big mortgage lenders have caught analysts on the hop — but is the property market growing again, or is there more to it? Annabel Dixon takes a look in this week's Property Talk.
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The five trends shaping the housing market today
Six months ago, the fiasco of the government's economic policy send the property market spinning — and both confidence and expectations plummeted. But things definitely look better today, says Annabel Dixon, as she identifies the key trends being seen in housing market today.
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The solution to the second home problem? A charter that would ensure second home-owners enrich and support communities
Simon Jenkins — himself a second home owner — tackles the thorny problem of second home ownership, which hits 70% in some parts of the country.
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Property Talk: Why are there so many different ways of measuring house prices?
From the official government UK HPI to Halifax, Rightmove and more, no week seems to go by without a new and often contradictory take on the latest house prices. Annabel Dixon explains how they all work, and which house price indices are worth listening to.
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Property Talk: The Dorset estates which show new-builds at their best — and (occasionally) their worst
New housing is one of the great issues of the present moment. Roger White looks at the example of Dorset, where he lives, and tries to draw some lessons from recent development there.
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Property Talk: How the property market has changed in the three years since the Pandemic
A raft of new data hit the housing market this week, from a big picture analysis of the market since Covid to numbers which show the biggest annual drop in over a decade and buyers slashing prices. But are things are now getting back on to a more solid footing, as some suggest? Annabel Dixon makes sense of it all.
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Property Talk: Is the property market seeing a soft landing — or a false dawn?
The latest dispatches from the property market make for much brighter reading than they did a couple of months ago — but are these signs of light at the end of the tunnel, or merely a temporary respite from price drops? Annabel Dixon takes a look.
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Why there are so many empty buildings in the UK — and how we should be using them
Lucy Denton asks why we have so many uninhabited dwellings and what we can do to save them.
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Property Talk: 'The worst of the market volatility' strikes the UK property market
The Halifax has reported the steepest price drop in almost a decade and a half — but is this the worst or just the start? Annabel Dixon takes a look.
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Property Talk: Is the property market cooling off — or just having an early Christmas?
Experts from Winkworth claim that the property market isn't in trouble, but simply having 'a slightly earlier Christmas' than normal; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former home in the New Forest comes up for sale.
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Property Talk: The top 10 places in the UK where first-time buyers won't have to compromise (well, according to this list at least)
A new piece of research looks at the best places for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder — but it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, warns Toby Keel.
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Property Talk: 'A soft landing is still possible for the housing market'... but is it likely?
The latest data all point in one direction for house prices, but will we see a cliff-edge drop as we've witnessed in the past? Annabel Dixon takes a look as she analyses the latest news and views from the property market.
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Property Talk: 1980s nostalgia is great... but not when it's about the property market
A dose of 1980s cultural nostalgia is always welcome, but economic nostalgia? No thanks. Inflation and interest rates are heading in a direction not seen since the 1980s, and that is a major worry for whoever ends up running the country by this time next week, says Toby Keel.
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Property Talk: Will the 'storm clouds' in the property market be blown away by a new resident at 11 Downing Street?
A downbeat prognosis from the nation's chartered surveyors, a new Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a government walking back several more of the changes which rocked the UK economy keep property market watchers on their toes.
