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The number of first-time buyers in the UK remained at near 20-year lows over the past 12 months and the latest stamp duty boost is unlikely to help them get on the property ladder, according to research today. GfK’s Financial Research Survey suggests 347,000 people took out a mortgage for the first time in the year to February 2010. This is up slightly on the 331,374 seen the year before, which marked the first reading below 350,000 since the survey began in 1993.
Housing	The Sentinel, Wednesday April 21, 2010



The housing market has shown further signs of a spring revival as asking prices rose by 2.6 per cent over the past month, according to new figures. New figures show that the average price of a UK property rose to £235,512 between March 7 and April 10, in a marked improvement on the 0.1 per cent lift seen the month before.
Housing	The Sentinel, Monday April 19, 2010



House prices continued to rise during November despite an increase in the number of homes put up for sale. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said 35% more of its members reported a price increase during the month than those who reported a fall, the highest level since November 2006. The group said demand was continuing to outstrip supply.
Housing	The Sentinel – 15th December 2009



Councils focus too much on building new homes and should pay more attention to improving existing housing in their area, a report claimed today. Public spending watchdog the Audit Commission said councils felt pressured into focusing on building housing, with 94% prioritising new and affordable housing targets. But less than one in three councils had prioritised targets relating to their existing housing stock, despite the financial savings, environmental improvements and social benefits of doing so.
Housing	The Sentinel - 9 September 2009



Surveyors expect house prices to rise during the coming quarter for the first time in more than two years. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said a low level of properties on the market, combined with increasing buyer enquiries, was providing a platform for “modest price increases”. It warned that there was unlikely to be a sustained recovery in the housing market until mortgage lending increased.
Housing	The Sentinel- 14 July 2009



Up to 65,000 people are expected to lose their homes this year, a mortgage trade body has said. The Council of Mortgage Lenders said it had revised down its estimate for repossessions during 2009 from a near record 75,000, as lower interest rates and a raft of government initiatives were helping people stay in their homes. The prediction is still almost two-thirds higher than the 40,000 people who had properties repossessed in 2008.
Housing	The Sentinel- 23 June 2009



House prices may have less than 10 percent left in fall before the bottom of the market is reached, economists predicted today. The Centre for Economics and Business Research said property transactions were likely to begin to rise over the coming months. The number of mortgages approved for house purchase jumped by nearly 20 percent to £7,000 during February.
Housing	The Sentinel- 10 April 2009



House prices rose for the first time in 16 months during March as buyers continued to return to the market, figures showed today. The cost of a home in he UK increased by 0.9% during the month, pushing the average to £150.946.
Housing	The Sentinel - 2nd April 2009



Interest in property rose for the fifth month in a row during March, with sales increasing for the first time for more than a year; figures showed today. New buyer inquiries were strong in all regions as people looked to take advantage of lower interest rates. Around 31 per cent more surveyors reported a rise in inquiries than those who saw a fall, the highest level since September 2003.
Housing	The Sentinel - April 15 2009



Almost one in three service families are unhappy with the housing provided by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the National Audit Office said today. It claimed it will take 20 years to get all army housing stock up to standard. More than 9,000 properties out of MoD’s stock of 50,000 homes are standing empty - many because they are in the wrong location or are too small for a family.
Housing	The Sentinel - 18th March 2009



Homeowners are returning to the property market looking to pick up bargains following recent house price falls. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said new buyer enquiries had risen for three months in a row – the first time this has happened since 2006. Seven out of 10 surveyors think lower house prices are responsible for the growth in interest.
Housing	The Sentinel – 17th February 2009



House prices fell by an average 8.7 per cent in 2008 and have a further 12 per cent to fall next year, property information firm Hometrack said today. Properties in London, East Anglia and the South-East have been hit hardest this year, according to its survey of more than 1,800 estate agents and surveyors.
Housing	The Sentinel - 29th January 2009



A housing charity has called on dioceses and religious orders to use their properties and land “imaginatively, creatively and in the way God would want them to use them,” to help people in need of housing. Alison Gelder, the chief executive of Housing Justice, was reacting to news that UK house prices plummeted by 16.2 per cent in 2008 – the biggest drop in a calendar year since records began.
Housing	The Universe - 11th January 2009



Figures released today are expected to show a jump in the number of people having their homes repossessed. The grim figures will add to pressure on the Government as it is revealed a scheme that is designed to stop people losing their homes has yet to help a single person. Commentators have predicted that around 42,000 homeowners lost their properties in 2008 after failing to keep up with their mortgage.
Housing	The Sentinel - 20th February 2009



Extended help for homeowners struggling to pay mortgages after losing their jobs was introduced by the Government today to slow spiralling repossessions. Thousands more will get help with intrest paymrnts after the threshold for qualification was raised and the waiting period cut to 13 days. People with mortgages of up to £200,000 – double the previous cut off – will now qualify for Support for Mortgage Intrest.
Housing	The Sentinel - January 5th, 2009

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