Property Match (UK) blog:

The asking price mis-match simply need not have happened.
The best attitude to borrowing is one that is fiscally conservative, i.e. one that is reactively prudent, in terms of how much you need to borrow; whilst being fully aware of the line of repayment and the level of interest involved in that repayment.


People, advised by agents, [...]

Rightmove have recently confirmed that many houses ARE overpriced, meaning the market will not and cannot pay these prices.
People, advised by agents, are doing themselves irreparable harm by not getting shrewd advice on how much to ask for their properties. Rightmove are correct to highlight this – in the interests of all selling clients.
With the [...]

Things need to be tightened up in the housing market, if house price rises are not to adversely affect the UK recovery.
A valuation hallmark requirement must be applied to agents valuing houses for sale in the UK, as part of the macro-prudential regulations about to be considered in the financial sector.
It would serve to bring [...]

Realising the importance of what is done next in Downing Street, we have written a short technical paper outlining how the housing market may effectively be improved to benefit the majority in the house-owning community.
One of the main problems facing government in the immediate short-term future is to find a way of keeping the housing [...]