Property Match (UK) blog:

The thing is, everything has gone pear-shaped in the housing market with far too many houses for sale and not enough sales being completed. Even Phil Spencer, working flat out to close sales, is not going to be enough to plug this sized gap.
The most significant difficulty causing the market to fail is undoubtedly [...]

The continued very low interest rates exist essentially because the Exchequer’s levers, for correcting the economy, have frozen. He now appears powerless to do anything about this problem, which is a problem in itself!
This is causing extreme pain for those who have diligently saved throughout their lives, for their old age.
The other effect that [...]

The most disturbing thing of all, about estate agents’ activities is: – They are in actual fact in business to actively encourage as many vendors as possible to place their houses up for sale at any one time. They do this by simply exaggerating the prices these house may be sold for. As [...]


I’m putting these ideas into the public domain without wanting to gain from them financially, even if they are taken up Universally!
The government should now amend the Estate Agent Acts to give agents a responsibility to sell a house at, or near, the price they suggest it is worth.
If they fail, within a previously agreed [...]

HIPs have been suspended today, and legislation to abolish them is planned to follow.
This means anyone can now put a house up for sale without first having to obtain a HIP.
However, Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are still the responsibility of owners to provide and these remain mandatory. It is therefore important that these are [...]