This is a little “off-brand” as far as TheAdvisory goes. After all, we’re all about helping people move home!   However, moving house is one of the biggest events in our lifetime.  Yet along with the excitement and pride at the prospect of owning a new home comes fear, anxiety and trepidation of taking such [...]

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It’s easy to lose track of people and contacts when you’re moving home, so here’s a handy list to remind you who to tell: Driving licence: The DVLA may need to update their records and send you new documents. Utilities: water board, the electricity and gas companies, the telephone company and your internet provider.  And [...]

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National fixed fees online estate agents, eMoov has revealed that home movers in the North are better than southerners at saving money on estate agent fees. Many can reduce their charges by up to 90 per cent by selling via an online estate agent.  Customers in Yorkshire and the North West now account for 26 [...]

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To help house sellers calculate the chances of sales falling through, Quick Move Now has drawn up a report.  It shows that fall through rates have actually dropped over the past three years, though they are still far above the historic lows of 2006. The house sale fall through rate for January 2012 was just [...]

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Bank of England data shows that mortgage approvals for house buyers rose to 52,900 from 52,800 in October, which was the highest level in 23 months. Economists expected a fall to 52,500. “We can derive some encouragement from mortgage approvals holding firm in November.  By that stage, the escalation of the eurozone crisis had begun [...]

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Demand for houses in the UK is at a four year high, as enquiries from house-hunters return to September 2007 levels. The number of enquiries made last month rose to 308 per average branch according to the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA), compared to 304 the previous month. The NAEA housing report revealed that [...]

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With the housing market continuing to stagnate, many people are turning to home improvement as a way to get the space they need. Figures from Nationwide last week showed that a record 20 per cent of all further advances given to its existing mortgage customers this July were used to pay for structural work, including [...]

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Because around 70% of homes on the market since January remain unsold and each estate agent is handling an average 78 homes for sale, sellers are resorting to unusual measures to induce buyers, according to Rightmove. One vendor with a rare eight-bedroom penthouse with two terraces overlooking Lord’s cricket ground had a bright idea: “I [...]

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With a new mood of realism, sellers appear to have accepted that the days of unending house price appreciation are over.  According to The Housing Intelligence Company, the number of house sales agreed by agents has risen by 10.6 per cent in June – its highest level for three months – after the market was [...]

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Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show the dramatic uplift in the value of deposits needed by first-time house buyers: from just £12,000 in 2007 to £26,000 today. This represents 87 per cent of their median salary compared to 41 per cent four years ago. The CML described the issue as the “biggest challenge” [...]

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