Home sales hit their highest daily level in a decade this week, as the housing market boom continued apace. The number of property sales agreed on Tuesday 23 March was the highest for ten years, according to analysis by the UK’s biggest home listings website Rightmove. In total, just under 8,000 properties listed on the … Read more
Cornwall has overtaken London as the most popular British location among homebuyers searching online, it has been revealed. Rightmove said there were more than five million searches for properties in Cornwall in February alone, although how many people were actively planning to move there and what proportion were browsing is not known. The figure came … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Investors not sold on cheery update from Rightmove even as it says housing market might be on brink of another boom By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 26 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 26 February 2021 Investors weren’t sold on a cheery update from Rightmove even as it … Read more
Online house hunting reached a new record this month, overtaking the previous one set last summer. Rightmove said there were 8.5 million visits to its website on Wednesday February 17, higher than the previous record on July 8. It comes amid widespread speculation that the Chancellor will extend the stamp duty holiday by three months … Read more
The most popular homes for sale overseas that Britons have browsing have been revealed, and they all boast multi-million pound price tags. The mega-expensive homes can be found on the overseas section of Britain’s biggest property website Rightmove, and surprisingly considering Britons’ love of European holiday homes, four out of the five are in the … Read more
Average asking prices have ‘surprisingly’ increased in the past four weeks, after three consecutive months of falls, fresh data from property website Rightmove reveals. According to Rightmove’s latest figures, average asking price swelled by £1,522, or 0.5 per cent, to £318,580 in the past month. The property site says one in five buyers who agreed … Read more
A water tower in Leicestershire transformed into an award-winning three-bedroom home was the most viewed property for sale on listing website Rightmove in January. This unusual luxury property, with a price tag of £595,000, has a glass floor in the kitchen that reveals original cast iron pipework used to drain the water tank when it … Read more
A water tower in Leicestershire transformed into an award-winning three-bedroom home was the most viewed property for sale on listing website Rightmove in January. This unusual luxury property, with a price tag of £595,000, has a glass floor in the kitchen that reveals original cast iron pipework used to drain the water tank when it … Read more
Rental costs in pockets of some cities across Britain have fallen drastically in the last 12 months, two separate reports show. Rents in Birmingham, Edinburgh and London fell between 5 and 8 per cent in the last year, data from SpareRoom shows – and in one capital postcode, they have plummeted 26 per cent. Meanwhile, … Read more
Average asking prices for homes started to fall in the past month, as sellers look to lure in buyers before the end of the stamp duty holiday on 31 March, according to new findings. Asking prices fell by £2,887, or 0.9 per cent over the past month, property website Rightmove’s new data has revealed. The … Read more