Tag Archives: Property prices

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

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Croydon snubbed in newspaper’s latest property boosterism

No where in Croydon, or Sutton or even Bromley managed to make it on to this year’s Sunday Times Best Places To Live guide – in the latest bit of housing market boosterism to hit the public discourse. The three … Continue reading

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Bleak midwinter for housing market as interest rates rise

Home-buyers in London are on average spending 56% of their earnings on their housing costs, with recent interest rate rises adding £3,000 per year to average mortgage bills Rising interest rates are seeing house sales fall through and the price … Continue reading

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