March 2017

March 2017 Newsletter!
This Month’s Newsletter | UK Property and Property Law News

The Property Market Monthly Fact File – March 2017

The property market fact file is a collection of data compiled each month by our Chartered Surveyors and the propertysurveying.co.uk team; collating survey data, statistics, trends and information from the property market. This aims to provide a single place where anyone with an interest in UK property can find the information they need.
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Could roof terraces be the new back garden?
The Government has recently warned that the density of housing development in the urban areas of England
must increase and land should be used ‘more efficiently’.
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Could the prescription for homelessness in the UK ever be: Housing on the NHS?
State Senator Josh Green, who is also a physician, has introduced a bill in Hawaii which will classify homelessness as a medical condition.
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Landlords favour pets that don’t claim benefits over people that do.
An investigation has revealed that, of nearly 12,000 rooms available for rent in London and 18 other areas across England, just two per cent were available for people on benefits.
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Modernise or Die
“At the end of last year the government asked the Construction Leadership Council to identify actions to reduce the industry’s structural vulnerability to skills shortages, taking account of the Council’s wider work including that on business models and offsite housing.”
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Raising the Standard
Following Bovis Homes’ agreement to recompense purchasers to the tune of £7m for poorly built new homes, research suggests that more than half of the buyers of new homes in the UK in recent years have experienced major problems with their properties, with issues including basic construction, unfinished fittings and faults with utilities.
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Scary Places
With agreed sales of 2,386 properties in May alone last year, online estate agent, Purplebricks, has  revealed some pretty scary results from its research on property names and addresses of the UK.
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The village isn’t big enough for both of us!
“The village isn’t big enough for both of us,” claims Margie Hanley, of Cornamona, County Galway.
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What could you buy for a pound … a house?
If you missed our article ‘Reasons to be Optimistic about the Property Market’, published in March 2013 then read on.
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Why Buy in Bromley?
The price of a three-bedroomed home in the London Borough of Bromley currently equates to that of a one-bedroom flat in nearby Dulwich, so is this the only reason for Bromley’s increasing popularity
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And Finally….

Should Liverpool be at the top of your investment list? Competition time for free Bubbly! 
Win a bottle of Prosecco delivered to any UK mainland address. All you have to do is send an email, to competition22@propertysurveying.co.uk, listing the 10 Beatles song titles contained in the article below. See below for rules of the competition.
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