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Boris is like a coiled black mamba, ready to strike,' says an ally. 'He is watching David Cameron stride cheerfully around the world stage, while he sits in exile and the party's poll ratings sink.
New buyer registrations and new lettings instructions in prime central London lifted this month, highlighting the return of interest in the higher end of the capital’s housing market, data from Knight Frank shows. The number of new prospective buyers registering in the first three weeks of the year was 6% higher
Against most sensible measures, house prices in the UK are too expensive. Whether you use property values vs rents, the size of typical deposits, or the most popular house prices-to-average earnings yardstick, buying a home looks costly compared to long-run averages. So could house prices really go on a bit of a tear from here? That’s what the 18-year property cycle theory suggests, but is that a reliable predictor or just charting mumbo jumbo that gets lucky with a small sample size of recent cycles? House prices paused and had a small slip in 2018 to early 2020 before rising rapidly again...
Comment: Time to prepare for the mortgage market’s next phase By Kevin Roberts 8 th March 2021 2:13 pm Last week’s Budget felt like a new dawn for the mortgage market: stamp duty land tax has been extended and tapered, addressing concerns about a cliff edge for the sector, and we now have a mortgage guarantee scheme that’s already been backed by some of the UK’s major banks. What does the mortgage market need to be thinking about and preparing for as this next phase kicks in? New responsibilities The government’s decision to extend the SDLT holiday presen...
PIPPA FOWLES / 10 DOWNING STREET / CROWN COPYRIGHT / PA MEDIA Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds’ rescue dog has been a Downing Street inhabitant since September 2019, after the Jack Russell was adopted from Friends of Animals Wales. Born with a misaligned jaw, Dilyn was saved from a puppy farm by the charity, who commented that he was ‘destined for an uncertain existence at the hands of a puppy dealer’. Dilyn was credited with sparking a surge in the popularity of Jack Russells – dubbed the ‘Boris Bounce’ – after his introduction to Number 10 and became a firm fixture on the camp...