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20,000 homes in Croydon to be hit by Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’
What parts of Croydon are likely to be hit by the ‘mansion tax’? Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, peers through the estate agents’ window… Pearls were being well and truly clutched at the Bog Standard this week, as the full … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Addington Hills, Addington Palace, Bishops Walk, Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Evening Standard, Gideon Osborne, Gravel Hill, Homes and Property, house prices, London Standard, Mansion Tax, Property price inflation, Property prices, Purley, Right-to-buy, Selsdon, South Croydon, Upper Woodcote Village, Waddon
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London’s first-time buyers looking to pay less for their homes
The average price of a home in Croydon is now more than £400,000, as a report by one property sales website suggests many potential buyers are being driven away from London’s pricier areas The days of developers trying to sell … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property
Tagged Croydon, First-time buyers, FTB, house prices, London, Zoopla
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Average house prices in Croydon almost double in a decade
Estate agents and buy-to-let landlords feel the squeeze as Trussonomics begins to have an impact The cost of an average house in Croydon has increased by 92.4per cent in the 10 years since 2013, according to research based on figures … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Council Tax, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Bank of England, Bromley, Council Tax, Croydon, house prices, Interest rates, Mortgages, Sutton
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Earnings struggling to keep up with property price growth
House prices have continued to soar, and even outstripped people’s wage packets in some parts of the country, making it ever more difficult for first-time buyers People’s homes in one-third of Britain have “earned” more per hour in the past … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, GetAgent, house prices, Housing, Lambeth, Sutton
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11.2% house price rise in 2021 due to ‘chronic lack of supply’
Croydon’s cash-strapped council looks to be getting out of the house-building racket at just the wrong time, as figures released this morning showed that the housing market has made its strongest start to the year since 2005, with annual house … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Croydon, house prices, inflation, London, Nationwide
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Brexit costs home-owners thousands as London prices slow
House prices in London since the Brexit vote five years ago this month have slowed to such an extent that homeowners across the capital have actually lost value in their properties against inflation. According to Land Registry figures, in June … Continue reading
House sale prices in London suffer biggest fall for a decade
Hopes that some quick sales of Brick by Brick’s long-overdue and hugely overpriced homes might help to ease Croydon Council’s financial woes took a knock yesterday with publication of a report that showed that London’s “gravity-defying” house price rises had … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Croydon, house prices, London
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Inflation, Inflation, Inflation: C4 gives house prices a bump
BUMP! There. Did you feel that? That was the sensation of property prices in Croydon jumping another one, two, even 10 grand following the latest visit from that estate agents’ wet dream which is Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location. In … Continue reading
