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Sentiment index reveals gloomy house price expectations

Home owners are at their most downbeat about the outlook for house prices since the Spring, according to Knight Frank/Markit’s House Price Sentiment Index (HPS…

Gentoo to launch mortgage-free purchase plan

Gentoo Group has been granted approval for a new home purchase plan which will allow first time buyers and people renting long-term to buy a home without needi…

COALITION URGES STAMP DUTY REFORM

A coalition of seven property groups is calling on the Government to reform stamp duty which it claims is distorting the housing market. A number of heavyweig…

Does the brickie have a future?

Report sets out the skills needed for UK housebuilding to 2020.

Stamp duty holiday must be extended to help 100,000 home buyers

The recovery in the housing market will be shattered by the increase in property stamp duty, if it is implemented at the start of next year, a coalition of pro…