{"id":3022646,"date":"2019-01-18T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=3022646"},"modified":"2019-01-18T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:01:55","slug":"top-seven-stories-this-week-in-housing-and-investment-18-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/top-seven-stories-this-week-in-housing-and-investment-18-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seven stories this week in housing and investment: 18 January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s our round-up of the best stories we’ve posted in the last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tenant fees will banned by law from 1 June, it’s costing more than ever to move home, first-time buyer mortgages are up, and are there signs of life in the London market? Read on…<\/p>\n

1.West Midlands leads way as London house prices fall in new data<\/h4>\n

The West Midlands was the best-performing region in the latest house price figures<\/a> from the Office for National Statistics and outperformed the UK overall, while London slipped back.<\/p>\n

\"Birmingham<\/p>\n

2.Rental market hints at recovery in London<\/h4>\n

Improving rental yields in parts of London could kickstart an upturn in the local market this year, a new report suggests.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Houses<\/p>\n

3.Ban on tenant fees will become law on 1 June<\/h4>\n

The Tenant Fees Bill will become law on 1 June 2019 following its third reading in the House of Lords,<\/a> with a controversial reduction of deposits to five weeks for rents under \u00a350,000 pa included.<\/p>\n

\"London\"<\/p>\n

4.Value of UK housing stock rises to \u00a37.29 trillion<\/h4>\n

The value of the UK\u2019s housing stock increased to a new record of \u00a37.29 trillion in 2018, with the country\u2019s regions making gains while London\u2019s market recorded a fall for the first time in a decade.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"property<\/p>\n

5.First-time buyer mortgage numbers on the rise<\/h4>\n

First-time buyers helped to give the housing market a sense of momentum towards the end of 2018, new figures from UK Finance have revealed.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

6.2018 saw record take-up of Manchester office space<\/h4>\n

The Manchester office market enjoyed its best year on record, with a spate of big deals in the final quarter of 2018 taking the city\u2019s numbers to new heights.<\/a><\/p>\n

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7.House move costs top \u00a310k for the first time<\/h4>\n

The average cost of moving house has gone over \u00a310,000 for the first time, according to new research, with first-time buyers taking longer to save up before joining the property ladder.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Here’s our round-up of the best stories we’ve posted in the last week. Tenant fees will banned by law from 1 June, it’s costing more than ever to move home, first-time buyer mortgages are up, and are there signs of life in the London market? Read on… 1.West Midlands leads way as London house prices… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3875,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,341,359],"class_list":["post-3022646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-housing-market","tag-london","tag-newsletter","tag-property-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022646","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=3022646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022646\/revisions"}],"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=3022646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}