{"id":16550,"date":"2018-04-26T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/?p=16550"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:34:01","slug":"this-weeks-hottest-property-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/this-weeks-hottest-property-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hottest Property News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<h2>RENTING RIGHT:\u00a0How to avoid letting agent and landlord fees BEFORE the ban hits &#8211; TheSun<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/the-sun-hot-property-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"380\" \/>MANY renters are STILL facing ridiculously high letting fees almost two years after it was announced they would be banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as the government appears to be dragging its feet bringing it into law, many renters are still looking for ways to avoid forking out for them if they have to move before the ban comes in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The letting fee ban was first announced back in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/money\/3848626\/queens-speech-2017-announces-ban-on-unfair-letting-agent-fees-for-renters-will-be-brought-forward\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November 2016 but it still hasn&#8217;t come in to practice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is that in recent years, a number of websites and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/top-10-online-estate-agents\" title=\"online estate agents\">online estate agents<\/a> have sprung up that can help people do just that by connecting them with landlords directly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a YouGov survey of more than 2,000 people undertaken by property portal TheHouseShop last year, 56 per cent of Brits prefer to rent directly from a landlord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/money\/6142173\/avoid-letting-agent-landlord-fees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House prices are falling \u2013 but here&#8217;s why you shouldn&#8217;t wait to buy a property &#8211; The Telegraph<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"396\" \/>W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hen is the right time to buy a house? It is a question that first-time buyers have faced for many years. Should you wait and build your deposit further, or is it better to get on the ladder as soon as possible?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising house prices in recent years generally meant the sooner a property was purchased the cheaper it would be. However, that tide may be turning as house prices in London have fallen for the first time in almost a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/property\/buy\/house-prices-falling-should-wait-buy-property\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How expensive are homes near you? Official figures reveal properties now cost 7.8 times wages &#8211; and this map lets you check your area &#8211; Daily Mail<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"594\" \/>Buying the average home in England and Wales would now cost a full-time worker 7.8 times their salary, official figures revealed today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House prices rising faster than wages meant that \u2018housing affordability significantly worsened\u2019 in England last year, the Office for National Statistics said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The figures emerged in a report that laid bare the effect of two decades of house price inflation on workers&#8217; ability to buy a home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1997, the average home in England and Wales cost 3.55 times earnings &#8211; making it less than half as expensive as it is now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An interactive map included in the ONS report, which we feature above, allows people to look up how house prices compared to local wages have changed since 1997 in their area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/money\/mortgageshome\/article-5660441\/How-expensive-homes-near-map-house-prices-vs-wages.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Renters must be able to hold private landlords to account &#8211; The Guardian<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/guardian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/>How would you feel if you went to work, or to the shops, and when you came back the locks had been changed and you found yourself homeless?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, more than three quarters of our work, as a social enterprise helping private sector tenants, is with people who are imminently threatened with or who have actually been put on the street by landlords. In particularly unpleasant cases, landlords have changed the locks while their tenants are out shopping, on the school run or at work; in some cases, they even throw tenants\u2019 possessions away. This is both cruel and criminal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We provide specialist advice, advocacy and support for vulnerable private tenants and victims of criminal landlords in four London boroughs \u2013 Croydon, Enfield, Hounslow and Waltham Forest. We work to prevent unlawful evictions by providing specialist advice, advocacy and support to vulnerable private rented sector tenants and victims of criminal landlords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/housing-network\/2018\/apr\/25\/renters-hold-private-landlords-account\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>House prices: This football haven is the best UK area to INVEST says property expert &#8211; Daily Express<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/house-prices\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/express.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" \/>House prices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the UK vary hugely from place to place, with London properties traditionally having the highest sale price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, a Greater London district in the borough of Haringey has broken the trend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its below average for London house prices coupled with the area\u2019s current regeneration means Tottenham has been dubbed one of the best areas in the UK to invest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tottenham area, which is famous for being home to the Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, is now on of the best areas to invest in the UK, said an expert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTottenham is definitely one to watch,\u201d said Mark Stephen, Founder and Managing Director of Reditum Capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/property\/951201\/house-prices-uk-best-place-to-buy-sale\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here<\/span><\/a>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Find Properties for Sale in London and the Surrounding Area:<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/barnet\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Barnet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/bexley\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Bexley<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/brent\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Brent<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/bromley\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Bromley<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/camden\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Camden<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/chelsea\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Chelsea<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/croydon\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Croydon<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/ealing\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Ealing<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/enfield\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Enfield<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/fulham\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Fulham<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/greenwich\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Greenwich<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/hackney\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Hackney<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/hammersmith\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Hammersmith<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/haringey\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Haringey<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/harrow\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Harrow<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/havering\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Havering<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/hillingdon\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Hillingdon<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/hounslow\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Hounslow<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/islington\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Islington<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/kensington\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Kensington<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/kingston\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Kingston<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/lambeth\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Lambeth<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/lewisham\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Lewisham<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/london\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>London<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/merton\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Merton<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/newham\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Newham<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/redbridge\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Redbridge<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/richmond\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Richmond<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/southwark\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Southwark<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/sutton\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Sutton<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/tower-hamlets\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Tower Hamlets<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/waltham-forest\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Waltham Forest<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a 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