Housing Market Blog

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First Time Buyers: Hurry, Conveyancing Sale Ends Soon 
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Who are Mortgage Prisoners 
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Suspend Stamp Duty Immediately: ePetition
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Tweet My aim when I write the blogposts for the Clutton Cox website is to be as informative as possible in an approachable way and if I am lucky – something which is topical ( Hacking Stops Land Registry E Conveyancing Reforms) I also try...
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Since 2003 Chancel Repair Liability, has become a bête-noir in the Conveyancing process . Back then, a Mr. and Mrs. Wallbank lost an appeal in the House of Lords against a demand to repair the Chancel of a medieval church in nearby Aston...
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Tweet At a time when the rest of the news is dominated by “hacking” scandals, it is reassuring, that in the relatively mundane world of conveyancing, an opportunity for further fraud has been nipped in the bud. E conveyancing , the...
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Day 27 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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We examine yesterdays Budget in Day 24  of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 20 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 11 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 11 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 2 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 1of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Why do we need a Conveyancing Quality

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A new paper this week argues a further extension of reserved activities rather than a relaxtion in Conveyancing

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Which Conveyancing firm completed the most conveyancing transactions in 2010
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Conveyancing's Tweedledum and Tweedledee: Gazumping and Gazundering
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Estate Agents Who Know What They're Talking About: Chris Wood PDQProperty
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Estate Agents Who Know What They're Talking About: Part 2 Adam Offer, Besley Hill
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Estate Agents Who Know What They're Talking About: Adam Offer, Besley Hill
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Back in the day, (up until 1985) Conveyancing was carried out by Conveyancing Solicitors, either practicing on their own or within a larger firm of Solicitors. In those days, you were more likely to find your Conveyancing Solicitor on the “High...
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I have just posted the second of my Conveyancing Guides as the expert Conveyancer for Yell.com You can find it here "What Exactly is Conveyancing?"        ...
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I have just posted the first of my Conveyancing Guides through Yell.com Over the next few weeks, you will see the Conveyancing process unravel before your very eyes. The Guide will be a handy reference for you at all the various stages in the...
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Cast your minds back to 1996 BC ( Before Coalition) and a singular Labour MP got mightily angry about being gazumped on a property because of the delay in achieving an early exchange of contracts. His solution: more information available about the property...
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We have all had enough of the ash cloud, but what the housing market could do with is a cash cloud in the form of increased mortgage approvals. The housing market continues its snail like progress from the depths of 2008 and 2009. But data released this...
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 The Home Information Pack, the HIP, is sustaining incoming fire once again from the Shadow Housing spokesman Grant Shapps: This, despite only a passing reference in the Conservative Manifesto to abolishing HIPs. An unseemly row is developing between...
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Now all the three main parties have released their manifestos we can look at possible changes and effects to the Housing Market in England and Wales. Here is a summary of each parties’ main proposals: Labour • 110,000 new homes over the...
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First the leak or is that rumour, that Stamp Duty will be abolished on purchases of up to £250,000: Then the reality. The Chancellor Alastair Darling in his budget speech announces a temporary 2 year “stamp duty holiday” for that...
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How the public choose a lawyer is the subject of further research released this week. Commissioned by a comparison website, and reported in the Law Gazette, a YouGov Poll by online solicitor directory www.legallybetter.com found that over one fifth or...
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Guest Blog by Buying Agent, Graham Downie This is another guest blog in our series Spot on Friday. If you are thinking of buying a property in France, you will find interest in Graham's wise words I moved to Cognac in SW France in 2003 having worked in the...
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The first of my award winning (well runner-up actually) posts on the state of the property market in the UK, entitled Twist Stick or Bust? : How to Deal in the Housing Market Spring 2009 was posted almost a year ago.  I shall be posting my...
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The news today that the UK is officially out of recession will be a welcome boost to many industries and service companies. One area which may see at least a positive change in sentiment is the housing market in England and Wales. The Housing Market has...
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 It is considered amongst the popular press that the housing market has changed beyond all recognition since the credit crunch began 2 years ago, and the slowdown then recession of the last 18 months. Yet, the fundamentals of the Housing Market and how...
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The current ills in the housing Market in England and Wales and the dearth of available mortgage finance were discussed in the Times this week by the eminent economist Ann Pettifor . In it, she blames the accumulation of unaffordable debts over the last...
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There was an interesting discussion on BBC 5Live business this morning regarding the state of the housing market Prior to the introduction of  Home Information Packs (HIPs), a proportion of the properties on the market for sale were by Sellers who...
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A Poll carried out by Reuters amongst analysts at banks, investment firms and consultancies makes more encouraging news for the beleaguered Housing Market in the UK. 23 out of 33 economists felt that house prices would stabilise within the year. 11 went...
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I published my first Article, Twist Stick or Bust?-How to deal in the Housing Market Spring 2009 in early March this year. Now, it’s time to revisit the Housing Market to see what Summer 2009 has in store. Where are we then? My opinion is garnered...
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1. The average price of a Property is now £152,898. 2. The average price of a Property excluding flats, is £224,024 3. Average Home Prices have declined by 20% since 2007 4. The Average time it takes to sell a property is below 10 weeks for...
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After 2 months of the New Year accounted for, how are we to interpret the varied data and forecasts for the Housing Market for the rest of 2009? Important data has just been released by Hometrack, the housing data group. It surveyed just over 1800 estate...