Asking prices fall as buyers face summer distractions

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The revaluations required to implement Labour’s Mansion Tax would involve a complex and resource-intensive process that risks costing more than the tax it raises, according to Chris Husson-Martin (pictured), who worked on the last major council tax revaluation in 1991. Husson-Martin, who is now Head of Sales at Hamptons’ Salisbury branch, says the Government has…

Annual house price growth edged up from 0.6% in December to 1.0% in January and was up by 0.3% on a monthly basis, according to Nationwide’s latest HPI report. Activity in the housing market had dipped at the end of 2025, as a result of uncertainty ahead of the Budget, although mortgage approvals for house…

Labour must stitch its scattered first-time buyer schemes into one joined-up strategy, a mortgage broker has warned ahead of next week’s party conference. Sarah Thompson, group financial services director at Mortgage Scout, part of LRG, said progress had been made on individual measures but they were not yet working together. She pointed to recent changes…

The North-South divide has hit buy-to-let, new research from Paragon Bank has revealed. The lender suggested that there has been a significant shift towards more property purchases by landlords in the North during the past 10 years. It attributed the shift to the Stamp Duty surcharge, which was introduced a decade ago. In 2015, the…