A new housing minister is set to be appointed after Dominic Raab was made Brexit Secretary earlier today . Raab was previously housing minister and replaces Davis, who resigned late on Sunday night saying he could no longer support the government’s Brexit policy announced at Chequers last week. Raab’s successor will be the eighth person to take on the role in just eight years, […]
The latest figures have revealed that house prices in quarter 2 of this year were 1.8% higher than those recorded for the same period last year. This is according to the most recent house price index from the Halifax, with the uplift in June slightly lower than May’s growth of 1.8%. UK house prices have risen at the slowest pace since […]
UK house price growth has slowed to a five-year low, according to the latest research from Nationwide. The annual rate at which property prices are rising eased to 2% in June, the lowest level since June 2013. According to the figures from Nationwide, June saw prices dip by 0.4% compared to the previous month. In London, house prices fell for […]
Shares in Countrywide were down 8.3% at 81.557 pence each at Thursday midday, having hit as low as 67.70p earlier in the session. Countrywide shares have fallen nearly 90% since hitting its all-time high of 701.00p in March 2014. This comes after a surprise statement declaring it was cutting its expected income forecast this year. In January this year Countrywide’s share […]
