With more customers taking their business online than ever before, major Banks are being forced to rethink their presence on the High Street. Following a raft of recent closures, Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed plans to permanently close a further 66 bank branches...
How to Add Real Value to Your Home Before Selling
Before placing your home on the market, it makes sense to perform a little profit-oriented housekeeping. Ask any real estate expert, and they will tell you how it is often the smaller details that add up to the biggest differences price-wise. But of all the home...
Homes England Falls Short of Housing Delivery Targets Once Again
England’s escalating housing crisis shows no sign of abating anytime soon, as Homes England is once again short of meeting any of its housing delivery targets. The figures in the agency’s 2021/22 annual report and financial statements make for a disappointing reading,...
Planning Permission Applications Down Once Again in Q1 2022
The lack of inventory in the UK’s prohibitively expensive housing market shows no signs of abating soon. According to the most recent figures published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities (DLUHC), just 84,000 of the 109,900 applications for...
What is Invoice Finance? Advantages and Disadvantages
Invoice finance provides businesses with the opportunity to access money they are owed by their own customers in advance. In doing so, delays between issuing invoices and collecting payments can be shortened or eliminated entirely. Where the business issues an...
Government Introduces Help to Build in England
A new scheme has been unveiled by the UK government, which will supposedly assist “thousands” of first-time buyers looking to get on the property ladder. Though unlike traditional Help to Buy schemes, this new initiative offers support to those who plan on building...
Why it Pays to Make Your Rental Properties More Energy Efficient
Most current indications point to a gradual but accelerating return to town and city life. The latest data from Rightmove confirms a major spike in demand for rental properties in and around London as workers once again find themselves beckoned back to the office. All...
People Are Choosing Longer Term Rentals, Even as 86% of Rental Households Face Financial Strain
Getting a foot on the UK’s property ladder has become borderline impossible for an entire generation of renters. Skyrocketing house prices combined with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis have forced many to abandon their dreams of homeownership entirely....