{"id":22174,"date":"2018-11-30T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=22174"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:23:17","slug":"top-seven-recent-stories-in-housing-and-property-investment-30-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/top-seven-recent-stories-in-housing-and-property-investment-30-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seven recent stories in housing and property investment: 30 November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s our round-up of some of the best stories that we\u2019ve posted on\u00a0BuyAssociation recently.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The property industry should embrace technology, the building societies v banks debate rages on, Everton’s proposed new stadium could help regenerate two areas in Liverpool, and more…<\/p>\n

1.Embracing technology is the way forward for planners and property sector as a whole<\/h4>\n

Royal Town Planning Institute and Future Cities Catapult<\/a> want planners to embrace technology in order to\u202fdigitise monotonous tasks, free planners to plan, and boost the housing market.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0UK building surveys to get the once over by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors<\/h4>\n

The\u00a0Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors<\/i>\u00a0(RICS)\u00a0is keen to introduce a new Home Standard Survey to provide consumers with a better quality product by creating a\u00a0benchmark for better, more consistent survey reporting.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Moving<\/p>\n

3. On trial \u2013 Nationwide\u2019s new retirement interest-only mortgage<\/h4>\n

In response to rising competition from digital banks and the increasingly complex requirements of today\u2019s borrowers, Nationwide are taking steps to innovate later life lending.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"house<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Are building societies better mortgage lenders than banks?<\/h4>\n

Building societies\u00a0achieved\u00a0a 10% rise in new mortgage approvals between July and September<\/a> this year, increasing their share of the UK mortgage market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bank<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Slight upturn in house price growth in new Nationwide data<\/h4>\n

House prices edged up in November following a fall in the previous month, in new figures released by the Nationwide Building Society.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

6. Everton stadium plans backed to boost regeneration in Liverpool<\/h4>\n

Plans for a new stadium for Everton FC that would regenerate two areas in Liverpool have been put forward for public consultation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Majority of UK students are happy with their purpose-built student accommodation<\/h4>\n

A recent survey showed\u00a076% of students living in\u00a0purpose-built student accommodation or university-run\u00a0housing\u00a0said they\u00a0were happy with their rental choice.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s our round-up of some of the best stories that we\u2019ve posted on\u00a0BuyAssociation recently. The property industry should embrace technology, the building societies v banks debate rages on, Everton’s proposed new stadium could help regenerate two areas in Liverpool, and more… 1.Embracing technology is the way forward for planners and property sector as a whole… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3875,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[341,359],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-news","tag-newsletter","tag-property-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092155,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions\/6092155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}