In this month’s Property Surveying Newsletter … we look at how home owners are being asked to sign settlement agreements, discuss the stamp duty holiday and rethink traditional views towards mortgages.
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House builders using NDAs to disguise poor quality buildings
The chairman of the Parliamentary Housing Committee says home owners are often being asked to sign settlement agreements before housing developers will carry out repair work on new builds.
Pandemic eviction laws become permanent in Wales
The Welsh government has passed legislation to permanently extend eviction laws, including the notice period landlords must give tenants to leave their property. Under the Renting Homes (Amendment)(Wales) Bill, tenants will also be able to sign up to a minimum twelve month rental contract.
Fixed rate and longer term mortgages offered
A flurry of 40 year fixed rate mortgages is expected to become available to offer property buyers longer term mortgages with a deposit of just 10% in a ‘deal for life’.
Home movers to pay £57k more to move than before the tax break
The first Covid lockdown in 2020 caused the housing market to grind to a halt, leaving property transactions in limbo and home buyers and sellers unable to move house. But has the stamp duty holiday really helped the housing market or home movers?
Spiralling cost of affordable homes
The cost of building affordable homes in London has tripled, according to the mayor’s office, which blamed Brexit and the cladding crisis for the failure. The properties currently being built will be offered as social rented, shared ownership or ‘London living rent’ homes that let people save for a deposit before moving into home ownership.
Leaseholders and tenants won’t be protected from fire safety costs
An attempt by the House of Lords to force the government to pay for fire safety work on buildings with unsafe cladding before reclaiming the money from developers has been thwarted by MPs. The amendment would have made developers, construction companies and cladding manufacturers responsible for unsafe cladding.
Think you know fungi?
Most homeowners would agree that finding fungi in the house is far from ‘fun’. However, there are some uses of fungi that homeowners might find useful.
And finally …
Nearly a million for Central London’s narrowest house
Nearly a million for a two/three bedroom, two bathroom terrace in Shepherd’s Bush but it won’t suit everyone. Why? Central London’s narrowest house is only 7 feet wide!
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