Equiem has completed the rollout of the market’s first leasing analytics dashboards to directly inform leasing and retention strategies. The dashboards are designed to help owners segment and profile individual tenants, understand their past behaviours, anticipate their future needs and formulate tailored engagement strategies aimed at long-term retention. Gabrielle McMillan, chief executive of Equiem, said: […]

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Estate agency chain Connells has reiterated the details of its £82m takeover bid for fellow estate agency group Countrywide. The company said it has completed due diligence work, with the offer being 250p per share. Countrywide is being offered £90m of investment from private equity company Alchemy Partners. However Connells said this isn’t enough, while […]

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Bluestone Mortgages has reverted its maximum loan-to-value to 85% across its residential and buy-to-let ranges. This brings its maximum LTV back to pre-Covid levels. Reece Beddall, head of sales & marketing at Bluestone Mortgages, said: “Today’s news is testament to the work of the Bluestone team and the support of our funders and intermediary partners. […]

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Portfolio management platform Lendlord has launched a ‘finance hub’, delivering tailored and automated finance recommendations to landlords based on their own personal circumstances and portfolio profile. The finance hub provides automated recommendations for financial products including buy-to-let mortgages and remortgages, bridging finance, secured loans, revolving credit for portfolios, commercial finance and landlord insurance. Users can […]

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The government’s stamp duty holiday is only having a modest impact in Wales, according to Principality Building Society’s chief risk officer Mike Jones. In Wales, the Land Transaction Tax (LTT) concession introduced in July moved the threshold from £180,000 up to a new level of £250,000 until 31 March 2021, worth a maximum of £2,450 […]

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We recently interviewed Mark Shepherd, Course Director for the University of Manchester’s MSc Real Estate, to get his views on education, the pandemic and the future of real estate. Here is what he had to say: Mark, can you please provide a little information about your own background and how you came to be Course […]

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Just Mortgages, part of the Openwork network, is to launch a wealth division in January called Just Wealth. Mortgages will invest in the futures of the mortgage brokers, by providing the training necessary for them to become wealth advisers. It is looking for 15 potential wealth advisers to join before January. Each adviser will be […]

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A land deal has been agreed which will pave the way for the construction of new homes in the village of Stilton in Cambridgeshire. The site, which is located east of North Street and already has outline planning permission for 90 new homes, has been acquired by Bellway Eastern Counties. The housebuilder plans to build […]

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London firm Urbanist Architecture has seen a 65% increase in enquiries for homes in the countryside since Q4 2019, research from architecture and planning firm Urbanist Architecture has found. With the UK population confined to their homes for the majority of 2020, lockdown has caused an increasing number of city dwellers to rethink their current […]

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There were 1,464 repossessions in the North West in the past 12 months, the most of any region, research from home buying platform Yes Homebuyers has found. The North East (1,044) and Yorkshire and the Humber (1,029) also rank high with over 1,000 properties being repossessed in the last year. In contrast, just 162 homes […]

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